2021 Newsmaker: Philomena Mantella

Philomena Mantella

President

Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University opened the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health in 2021. 

The $70 million, five-story, 166,000-square-foot health center is located on its health campus in downtown Grand Rapids. It offers undergraduate and graduate health care programs to students.

“The completion of this building is the apex of Grand Valley’s Health Campus expansion, further enabling the university’s leadership as the primary talent pipeline for frontline health professionals and nurses in West Michigan and our state,” said Grand Valley President Dr. Philomena Mantella. “The DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health will allow cross-disciplinary innovation and collaboration that will keep Grand Valley graduates at the forefront of their professions.”

The building houses GVSU’s Kirkhof College of Nursing, along with 17 classrooms, 12 interactive laboratories and different technologies including electronic 3D modeling and imaging of the body and its organs, plastinated specimens, a virtual anatomy table and classrooms with interactive walls and floors.

The virtual anatomy table can be programmed to show a normal anatomy and a list of pathological conditions. Students can look at human ailments and electronically dissect every layer of the skin, muscle and bone.

The DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health has 28,375 square feet of simulation space. Grand Valley now has a total of more than 67,800 square feet of simulation space on the Health Campus.

The facility is the third and flagship building on the Health Campus, joining the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences and Raleigh J. Finkelstein Hall.