Because of you, we are solving tomorrow’s health care challenges today.
As part of Transcend Tomorrow, we embarked on health care initiatives that would have lasting and profound impacts on our region. Through your support, we obtained R1 Carnegie Classification status, signifying that Florida Atlantic is at the highest level of research activity. As a result, we’re advancing medical innovation, expanding clinical partnerships and improving access to high-quality care across our communities. From groundbreaking discoveries to enhanced training opportunities for the next generation of health care professionals, our support is helping us transform health care today — and for decades to come.
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Thanks to support from our visionary donors, Florida Atlantic University made significant inroads to address the health care needs of South Florida. During the campaign, Florida Atlantic raised more than $85 million toward health care programs, training the next generation of health care professionals and providing more than 100,000 patient visits.
Florida Atlantic’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing continues to build a robust program helping to address the nursing shortage in the state. Of note was the renovation of the Advanced Nursing Simulation and Clinical Learning Laboratory at the Davie campus thanks to a generous anonymous donation and the expansion of the SIM Center on the Boca Raton campus, made possible by several gifts. The College of Nursing has more than 9,000 alumni, with approximately 85% residing in Florida, provided additional funding during the campaign to expand services and programming.
The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, established with a generous gift from the Marcus Foundation, has developed into a leader in holistic and wellness health in South Florida. The foundation provided additional funding during the campaign to expand holistic health and wellness services and programming.
Community health and wellbeing is a focus of the Dr. Heidi Schaeffer Resilience, Hope, and Healing Fund, which helped social work students complete their clinical practicum placements, a requirement to graduate and work in the field professionally. This funding contributed to supporting the 190,000 hours of service annually completed by social work interns studying at the College of Social Work and Criminal Justice.