The Prisma Health Center for Health and Life Sciences is now open on the Barton Campus of Greenville Technical College.
The three-story, 137,000-square-foot building is the largest facility on all four of the college’s campuses and four special education centers. The new facility’s grand opening took place on August 20.
Prisma Health, the largest employer of Greenville Tech graduates, donated $1.5 million to the institution. Jonathan Gleason, chief clinical officer at Prisma Health, said both the health system and the college are committed to making an impact on our community by recruiting, training and retaining the health care professionals of the future.
“With the opening of the Prisma Health Center for Health and Life Sciences, the future is now even brighter,” said Gleason. “Thanks to the partnership with the college, the center will be a driving force in the development of not only our workforce, but also the health of our community.”
The Prisma Health Center for Health and Life Sciences will reach 90% of GTC students with general education requirements and serve 500 to 600 health science graduates each year. Keith Miller, president of Greenville Technical College, said they are grateful to Prisma Health for partnering with the college in training the future health care professionals.
“This innovative new facility is designed to make learning visible, inviting visitors, prospective students and those who have not yet decided on a major to view the education taking place and enter the innovative space as learners,” Miller said.
Classes will begin in this building on August 26. The facility has medical imaging, ultrasound and radiological technology rooms, as well as an antomage laboratory with virtual dissection tables.
The building also offers spaces where students can study, collaborate, relax and eat between lectures. For brainstorming, there is a think tank room with seating, a touchscreen wall and glass whiteboards.
Harper General Contractors oversaw construction of the building, which took nearly two years, with groundbreaking for the facility taking place in October 2022.
Other donors for the facility are
- Bon Secours St. Francis Health System
- FW Symmes Foundation
- Harper General Contractors
- Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative honors board member Kenneth Southerlin
- The Cabinet of the GTC President
- Caroline McIntyre and Sally Potosky
- The Bosch Community Fund
- Dedicated to Mike and Susan Cinquemani Mark Yocono, MD
- Steve Valand, Dean of Health Sciences at GTC from 1986 to 2004
- T&S Brass
Tree Fact
For the construction of the new Prisma Health Center for Health and Life Sciences. One of the removed trees is displayed in the building’s lobby. The tree’s visible growth rings date it to the college’s opening in 1962.
