The Mississippi Monitor
A rendering of the new Hinds CC Health Sciences Complex on the Rankin Campus. Photo courtesy of The Mississippi Monitor
The new Hinds Community College Health Complex is now under construction just north of the Muse Center. The new facility will be the home of the new nursing school for the college, as well as other curriculum programs.
We are proud to have this fifty-million-dollar investment in Pearl,” said Pearl Mayor Jake Windham.
“This is a big deal for us,” said Hinds President Dr. Stephen Vacik. “When I got to Hinds, one of the first things I saw was that we had to do something about our nursing and allied health programs. Now, we can move forward and we can help change lives.”
The Health Sciences Complex will be 160,000 square feet and four floors, with three to be immediately occupied when it is built and the fourth to house future growth. It will consolidate programs now housed at the Career Technical Education Building on Greenfield Road in Pearl and the Nursing/Allied Health Center in Jackson, which opened in 1982. The Vicksburg-Warren Campus programs will continue.
“We’ve been very fortunate to be in a facility we’re in right now, but it’s no longer adequate to fit the needs,” Vacik said. “With our health corridor continuing to move further and further to this area, this is the place to be.”
Last year, legislators appropriated $24 million over two sessions, and Rankin County Supervisors also committed to assisting with the funding.
The new facility will share a parking lot with the Muse Center.