Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building

Building Tomorrow Together
UMKC is in a unique position to change the landscape of healthcare 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.
Expected to open academic year 2026-2027, the new $120-million Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building (HDIB) will allow UMKC to provide state-of-the-art education for the next generation of healthcare providers, find newer and better ways to serve patients in need and facilitate greater interdisciplinary partnerships to drive innovation and research.
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, predoctoral 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.
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Sneak Previews of the Construction
Renderings video
Watch the 1:32 video of An Ovation to Health Innovation on YouTube.
Live construction feed
View the live construction feed.
HDIB in the News
- Celebrating Construction of the Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, UMKC Today, September 2024
- UMKC Celebrates Beginning of Construction on New Healthcare and Innovation Building, KCTV5, September 2024
- UMKC Breaks Ground on $145M Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, Ingram's, September 2024
- University of Missouri - Kansas City Constructs Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, Tradeline, July 2024
- UMKC Reveals Renderings for $120-Million Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, KSHB, October 2023
- Revealing the Future of the UMKC Health Sciences District, UMKC Today, October 2023
Giving Levels and Naming Opportunities
Clinical operatories
The clinical areas on the third and fourth floors will be the new home of the pre-doc clinic and have 180 operatories, which will be custom-sized, equipped for their specific purpose and in a bright, welcoming space. Mailboxes for
students will be stocked with instruments for each appointment. The two clinical floors will include a centrally located dispensary, making consumables and specialty instruments readily available. Central sterilization will be on another floor serviced by its own elevator.
Donation amount: $25,000 per operatory
Team group rooms
Our dental and dental hygiene students will each have dedicated conference rooms on the third and fourth floors to convene with fellow classmates and faculty team leads. These reserved spaces will offer a quiet place away from the clinical areas for privacy and collaboration.
Donation amount: $40,000 per room
Faculty and student touchdown spaces
These shared areas in the pre-doc clinic will be where students and instructors can meet before, during and after patient treatment, serving primarily as private teaching spaces away from patients and offering one-on-one time for faculty and students.
Donation amount: $60,000 per space
Additional Legacy opportunities (PDF)
Contact Us
Doug Anderson
Executive director, Rinehart Foundation
Senior director of development, UMKC School of Dentistry
816-235-2173
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