{"id":799242,"date":"2026-05-15T23:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:10:21","slug":"jacksonville-university-cleared-to-build-out-medical-simulation-center-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799242\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville University cleared to build-out medical simulation center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h948380-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a permit May 14 for Jacksonville University to spend $3.68 million for Danis Construction LLC to build-out a new educational facility on the third floor of the College of Healthcare Sciences building.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">PQH Group Design Inc., of Jacksonville, is the architect.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The 21,000-square-foot simulation center project will include examination rooms, a nurses\u2019 station, mock hospital rooms, debriefing and control rooms, classroom space, an anatomy lab and interactive multipurpose space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The College of Healthcare Sciences occupies the bottom two floors of the three-story building at 5491 Dolphin Point Blvd., which is north of the JU campus and across a parking lot from the medical school that the university is building in partnership with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">First-year classes at the medical school are scheduled to begin this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nurses from local hospitals train with medical manikins at Jacksonville University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Healthcare Simulation Center.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/348106_standard_t850.jpeg\" title=\"Nurses from local hospitals train with medical manikins at Jacksonville University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Healthcare Simulation Center.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nurses from local hospitals train with medical manikins at Jacksonville University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Healthcare Simulation Center.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">JU\u2019s Healthcare Simulation Center was established in 2014 at JU\u2019s campus in Arlington. When the program outgrew its initial 5,000-square-foot space, JU leased space in the former Albertsons grocery shopping center at Beach and University boulevards.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948380-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">That center eventually grew to more than 30,000 square feet where nurses and first responders are trained using technology and tools such as medical manikins to duplicate the physical responses of patients in a simulated hospital environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacksonville University\u2019s new Healthcare Simulation Center will include mock hospital rooms, examination rooms, a nurses\u2019 station and classroom space.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_2026-03-04_at_4.09.39PM_t850.png\" title=\"Jacksonville University\u2019s new Healthcare Simulation Center will include mock hospital rooms, examination rooms, a nurses\u2019 station and classroom space.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville University\u2019s new Healthcare Simulation Center will include mock hospital rooms, examination rooms, a nurses\u2019 station and classroom space.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city issued a permit May 14 for Jacksonville University to spend $3.68 million for Danis Construction LLC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":633934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-799242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581121543493848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}