The new
waterfront campus of George Brown College -- under construction now and expected to be finished late next year -- will be home to an innovative approach to healthcare education preparing students for the new direction of medical services in Ontario, according to spokesperson Paul Zanettos.
Zanettos says that the facility will be educating nurses and healthcare practitioners in a way that prepares them for a future in which
Family Health Teams and
Nurse-Practitioner-led Clinics will be ever more common, in line with priorities announced by the provincial government. The province, as if to underline his point, is a major contributor to the construction of the project, chipping in $61.5 million towards its cost. The school itself is investing $15 million, with additional money for the $175 million project coming from private sector partners.
The project will not only prepare students for the jobs of the future, but will directly create employment too, according to Zanettos. A significant number of workers will have been employed on the construction of the project, and there will be approximately 260 staff and 3,500 students within the George Brown campus building by the time it's complete.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Paul Zanettos, Media Relations Consultant, George Brown College
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