TWU breaks ground on overall health facility, launches campaign | 2023 Information

TWU breaks ground on overall health facility, launches campaign | 2023 Information

Sept. 15, 2023 ― DENTON ― Texas Woman’s University broke floor on a $107 million, point out-of-the-art wellbeing sciences centre that will grow programming and instruction for pupils seeking health and fitness-related professions, enhance the number of pros in large-demand health and fitness fields and prolong critical well being solutions to rural, underserved areas of North Texas.

The 136,000-sq.-foot facility is becoming designed on 7 acres adjacent to Parliament Village, a TWU residential community, and will serve pupils in the allied health care fields — this sort of as nursing, physical therapy and occupational remedy — with a specific emphasis on getting ready learners to serve in rural options. The constructing will include labs, classrooms, collaborative workspaces, outside clinic web-sites and a teaching kitchen, as perfectly as community health care clinics and schooling spaces for students. The developing venture is scheduled for completion in summer time 2025, with opening established for drop 2025.

The middle will serve as a hub for community and rural well being efforts, which will considerably improve overall health treatment schooling, investigate and provider. The centre also will spur collaborative programming amongst the university’s 5 faculties, with a specific objective to graduate 30% far more nursing and health treatment experts and assist the state’s program to generate more well being gurus.

“This new facility will convey college students and college from various professional views collectively in spaces, labs and clinics exclusively made for collaboration and crew constructing,” stated Texas Woman’s Chancellor Carine Feyten. “This impressive educational experience will deliver workforce-all set experts who have a grounding in a individual-centered, whole-individual strategy to overall health and therapeutic in a discipline not only desperate for far more gurus but transformational leaders.”

The college also launched the community section of a historic $125 million thorough fundraising marketing campaign, Aspiration Major, which will aid TWU’s continued growth and leadership development in health and lifetime sciences, economic and business companies, entrepreneurship, technological innovation and aviation. The marketing campaign, scheduled to conclusion in conjunction with the university’s 125th anniversary in 2026, is the university’s very first-at any time detailed fundraising exertion.  

To date, the university has raised additional than $103 million in aid of the campaign’s a few-pronged method that will open doorways of opportunity for pupils to gas innovation and alter, and cultivate and nurture management advancement. 

“For decades, Texas Woman’s University has been a chief in making graduates to satisfy

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Hospital systems get millions in property tax breaks

Hospital systems get millions in property tax breaks

By Michelle Crouch

Co-published with the Charlotte Ledger

Every year, Terry Taylor-Allen and her husband, William, pay property taxes on their bungalow in Charlotte’s Dilworth neighborhood. Although the bill has skyrocketed since they moved in 30 years ago, they know the money supports schools, police and other important services. 

The owner of the houses next door, meanwhile, don’t pay a cent on those homes. 

That’s because the houses on either side of them are owned by The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, a governmental entity otherwise known as Atrium Health. 

Because it’s a hospital authority, Atrium — which had $8.9 billion in revenue in 2021 — does not have to pay taxes on property it owns in Charlotte and across the region. 

That’s true even if the land isn’t used for medical purposes. 

In fact, one tax-exempt Atrium property in Cornelius is home to a PDQ Tenders chicken restaurant. You’ll pay taxes when you buy the chicken tenders, but Atrium doesn’t pay taxes on the land the restaurant sits on.  

Charlotte’s other health care giant, Novant Health, also gets significant tax exemptions. Because it’s a nonprofit hospital and not a public one, it gets a tax break only on property it can show it is using for its charitable purpose.

“If you think about the cumulative total of everything (the hospitals) have taken off the tax rolls over the years, that’s a Godzilla number,” said Taylor-Allen, who lives on Fountain View next to the site where Atrium’s Carolinas Medical Center is expanding. “Think about all the school needs and how much that money could help low-income people who don’t have health care, housing or food.” 

As Mecklenburg County officials discuss a possible tax increase this year, a Charlotte Ledger/N.C. Health News analysis reveals that the two hospitals now own properties assessed at more than $2.4 billion — but which is tax-exempt — in Mecklenburg County alone. That’s based on 2022 assessed values; it’s likely worth more based on the 2023 values recently mailed out. 

If Atrium and Novant were fully taxed in 2022, they would have been Mecklenburg County’s fourth- and fifth-largest property taxpayers, respectively, after only Duke Energy, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. And they would have contributed an additional $23 million to the city and county tax base, according to calculations using 2022 assessed values and tax rates. 

That’s enough to pay the salaries of 527 entry-level teachers in

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