Scott & White, the College of Medicine's principal clinical teaching partner, recently began construction of a new state-of-the-art addition to its hospital in Temple. The eight-story addition will contain approximately 520,000 square feet and will have 526 beds, an increase of approximately 73 from the current capacity at Scott & White. When completed in 2005, the new hospital is expected to be one of the premier health care facilities in the Southwest.

In December 2003, construction was completed on a 23,000-square-foot facility for the South Texas Center in McAllen. The purpose of the center is to provide support for health professions education, assist in recruiting students from McAllen and surrounding counties into the health professions, provide health outreach programs and conduct research on health issues for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The facility was made possible by a funding agreement whereby the city of McAllen constructed the building according to A&M System specifications, and sold the facility to the A&M System upon completion.

In early 2003, the A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine Education Center at Scott & White opened at the College of Medicine's campus in Temple. The education center boasts approximately 45,000 square feet of space and houses the R.D. Haines Library, lecture halls, classrooms, the Frank W. Mayborn Auditorium, a learning resources center and administrative offices for the college.

The School of Rural Public Health received $14.3 million in tuition revenue bonds from the Texas Legislature in 2001 for the construction of a building to house the school on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station. The school is slated to move into the 91,000-square-foot building, which will be located at Adriance Lab Road and Raymond Stotzer Parkway adjacent to the College of Medicine, in January 2006.

In June 2003, the College of Medicine's Cardiovascular Research Institute took occupancy of a new research building on the grounds of the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System's Olin E. Teague Veterans Center in Temple. The new facility has three floors of research and office space, including laboratories and facilities for the institute's divisions of molecular medicine, vascular biology and molecular cardiology, and will allow institute scientists to work more closely with clinicians from the VA hospital and Scott & White.

Interior finishing of Baylor College of Dentistry's newly renovated Sciences Building is under way, with completion anticipated by fall 2004. Located across the street from the college's current complex, the two-story building will provide 15,000 square feet to house the college's department of biomaterials science and selected researchers in the areas of microbiology, immunology and pathology. The building's infrastructure will allow for the addition of three floors in the future, ultimately housing the college's department of biomedical sciences and other dental and craniofacial researchers as well.

Joint planning by the College of Medicine, Scott & White and Temple College has resulted in an agreement to create an innovative Technical Skills Training Center to be located in the new Health Sciences Building on the Temple College campus. That facility is expected to be ready for occupancy in spring 2004. The collaborative agreement will allow students, residents and faculty to learn sophisticated medical and surgical technical skills in a state-of-the-art facility.

Baylor College of Dentistry's preclinical laboratory was renovated in time for the new academic year. The laboratory includes the same state-of-the-art media equipment as the college's one-year-old Dental Simulation Laboratory, making it ideal for preclinical laboratory instruction and clinical continuing education. First-year dental students are the primary beneficiaries of the new facility, which they use for preclinical operative dentistry and dental anatomy. The laboratory renovation was funded in part by the Baylor Oral Health Foundation. In addition, a total of 190 dental chairs, units and lights were replaced in August 2003, which standardized all 307 dental chairs.

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