威尼斯人娱乐城今天宣布，桑德兰基金会捐赠了3000万美元，用于资助威尼斯人娱乐城健康科学区新建的最先进的医疗和牙科大楼。 该项目将推动将该地区扩大为一个主要的区域性学术医疗中心，提供创新的医疗保健，吸引顶尖的医科学生和研究人员，创造数十亿美元的就业机会和经济发展，同时促进对服务不足人群的护理。
这座耗资1.2亿美元的多层医疗服务和创新大楼将容纳新的牙科教学诊所和扩建的医学院教学设施。 In addition, it will provide space for the 威尼斯人娱乐城健康公平研究所, the university’s 数据科学与分析创新中心 and its new biomedical engineering program.
“We are grateful to the Sunderland Foundation for their investment in taking the Health Sciences District to the next level, spearheading an academic medical center with extraordinary community benefits,” said 威尼斯人娱乐城 Chancellor Mauli Agrawal. “This gift -- by a local foundation that supports making big positive change in Kansas City -- is an investment not just in a building, but in a truly big, longer-term vision. We believe our new building will escalate momentum to exponentially expand the Health Sciences District in coming years to become the major regional academic medical center that we know it can be.”
州长迈克·帕森（Mike parsons）亲自宣布了这一捐赠，他于7月签署了密苏里州的一项法案，为这座建筑拨款4000万美元。 这笔拨款带来了堪萨斯城社区筹集所需额外资金的挑战。
“We are proud to support the efforts of 威尼斯人娱乐城 to improve educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math to expand health-care access in the state of Missouri, particularly in rural areas,” Parson said. “Missourians will reap the benefits of increased collaboration between health-care services and the data science and biomedical engineering programs that will share the building. This partnership could help further health outcomes through new, innovative solutions right here in Missouri.”
桑德兰基金会的资助重点是为已建立的组织提供实体项目，为其服务的社区创造一个更强大、更安全、更有活力的未来。
“The Sunderland Foundation is proud to give to 威尼斯人娱乐城’s efforts to transform the Health Science District,” said Kent Sunderland, chairman of the Sunderland Foundation. “The cutting-edge facilities will provide innovative training opportunities for tomorrow’s doctors, dentists and health-care leaders who will improve prosperity in our neighborhoods, cities and state. The Sunderland Foundation and 威尼斯人娱乐城 share a mission of caring for the underserved and lifting neighborhoods.”
威尼斯人娱乐城是全国仅有的20所大学之一，其中牙科，医学，护理和健康研究以及药学学院共享一个步行校园，这种安排有利于学生的跨专业培训和健康科学之间的研究合作机会。
Additionally, the new building will create opportunities for increased collaboration among 威尼斯人娱乐城 and its health district partners including University Health and Children’s Mercy, which allows for a greater capacity for finding health solutions and providing patient care. This project will expand 威尼斯人娱乐城’s mission to elevate health equity across Kansas City, including many initiatives that work with the underserved including 威尼斯人娱乐城’s dental clinics, the Sojourner Clinic and the Center for Health Equity, which works through a network of churches in the urban core.