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Thompson Rivers University is getting bigger.
The Kamloops university will be home to a new $30.6-million Nursing and Population Health Building that will help meet the need for nurses in B.C.
The province will contribute $8 million, and TRU will provide $22.6 million toward construction of the facility.
The 4,100-square-metre building will house the bachelor of science in nursing, health care assistant and new master of nursing programs, as well as others as they are developed by TRU.
It will feature multi-disciplinary simulation labs, classrooms and collaborative study spaces. TRU will be able to implement patient-simulation technology in the new building.
More than $2 million already has been raised privately toward construction of the building, including major contributions from the Stollery Charitable Foundation and an anonymous donor who will be announced at its opening.
Nurses and health-care assistants are high-priority health professions under the 2025 B.C. Labour Market Outlook. The outlook forecasts almost 30,000 nurses will be needed throughout B.C. over the next 10 years.
It is expected construction will begin in spring 2018 and be ready for student occupancy by the fall of 2020. The project will create 102 jobs in construction and 74 jobs in supplier industries.
