Oklahoma City Community College's $7,000,000 Health Professions Center was opened in time for the 2008 fall semester. A showpiece of OCCC's 2003 "Vision of the Future", the two story, 42,879 sq. ft. expansion of the Division of Health Professions and Mini-Hospital Building relocates into one complex OCCC's health care programs formerly spread throughout the campus. It houses Oklahoma's only nationally accredited paramedic program and largest single site nursing program.

Triad designed the Center to reflect the real health care workplace with collaboration between medical disciplines. It includes 14 new classrooms and labs, student clinical practice space and a Human Patient Simulator lab. Registered Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Emergency Medical Sciences now have space for equipment, mannequins and skills practice with new labs adjacent to the classrooms. The EMS area contains a fully equipped ambulance used for student training.

Included in the Geriatric Care and Home Health Care division is a new Activities of Daily Living space. This coupled with one of two Human Patient Simulators allows students to simulate care in home and hospital environments. Two lecture style classrooms on the upper floor are adaptable to accommodate large groups of students or continuing education seminars.

The versatile facility triples the space for Health Professions programs as they partner with regional healthcare providers to meet the growing need for a highly trained allied health care workforce.

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