Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building

UMKC is in a unique position to change the landscape of health care access in our region. The university is Kansas City’s top provider of doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists and is one of only 20 universities in the United States with a similarly comprehensive health sciences district.

The new $120 million Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building will allow UMKC to provide state-of-the-art education for the next generation of health-care providers, find newer and better ways to serve patients in need, and facilitate greater interdisciplinary partnerships to drive innovation and research.

Groundbreaking will occur in 2024 with project completion expected in 2026.

“The Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building will further solidify the UMKC Health Sciences District as a national leader in medical education and health care as well as support our mission of increasing health equity in the Kansas City region and beyond.” – Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal

School of Dentistry

UMKC is a regional leader in dental education with the only public dental school in the states of Missouri and Kansas. The new facility will provide leading-edge pre-doctoral dental clinics, enhancing our ability to graduate top-notch dentists. The new space also means students can serve more patients in need through advanced equipment, greater efficiency, expanded hours for acute dental care and the ability to implement teledentistry.

Currently, the School of Dentistry provides $500,000 annually in uncompensated dental care for the community. The new facility will house UMKC’s acute dental care programs – such as oral surgery, endodontics and emergency procedures – plus program space for radiology, lab work and a high-tech dental design lab to produce crowns, bridges and implants.

School of Medicine

UMKC ranks in the top 30% of medical programs nationwide in providing care to the underserved and is the highest-ranked public medical school in Missouri for primary care. The new facility will provide cutting-edge simulation labs to better educate students, including dedicated space to practice essential medical procedures; a full-scale operating room and patient exam rooms to practice patient communication and care. Collaborative learning space for students will encourage a culture of communication and better prepare students to work with colleagues in their professional lives.

The interdisciplinary nature of the new facility will bring together medicine with dentistry, biomedical engineering, the Health Equity Institute, and the Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center to create unique and impactful partnerships that could not exist anywhere else.

Health Equity Institute

The UMKC Health Equity Institute brings together researchers, government and community organizations to improve the lives of the underserved and bridge health-care gaps. The institute combines its research strengths with community groups’ grassroots involvement to identify, quantify and reduce those gaps. Researchers will collaborate within the new facility to tackle health disparities and provide access to health care with initiatives including Our Healthy Jackson County that brings free vaccines, health screenings and other resources into neighborhoods and places of worship. The institute’s new space will include healthy lifestyle programming for diabetes prevention, a teaching kitchen for healthy eating and space for group physical activity.

Biomedical Engineering

In the new building, doctors and engineers will work side by side, creating faster, more effective collaboration between science, engineering and the medical world. Product development will accelerate in areas such as imaging technology, adhesives and microsurgery tools, and UMKC can expand access to the in-demand biomedical engineering degree program with potential global impact.

Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center

In partnership with MU and other UM System universities, UMKC leads a center focused on creating new advances in data sciences and analytics. The data center within the new facility will provide high-performance computing for industry, government and nonprofit organizations within our region to solve data-intensive computing problems.

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