Okanagan College showcases new health science centre
Global News
‘The students that will graduate from this building are going to go on into work in long term care, in hospital settings, in pharmacies in dental clinics.’
Okanagan College opened the doors for the media to tour its new health sciences centre on Tuesday morning.
The centre opened earlier this year.
It cost $19.4 million with most of the funding — $15.4 million — coming from the province.
Okanagan College had to raise $5 million for the state-of-the-art building in Kelowna. To date $4.2 million has been raised with the college looking to raise $750,000 more by March 31.
Campaign Ambassador Maxine DeHart said the health sciences centre will not only teach the next generation of health and social development professionals, “but it’s for the current and future people of our city.”
Okanagan College Foundation Executive Director Helen Jackman said the province typically provides three-quarters of the funds needed to complete educational projects.
“And we have to go to the community to support the level of excellence that we want for our community,” Jackman told Global News.
“We’re hoping to do that by the end of March, and that will allow us just to make sure we’ve got the very best equipment and that we’ve reached that capital goal.”