Newswise — In recognition of a series of gifts totaling more than $91 million by The Anschutz Foundation, the University of Colorado system today announced that its University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center's Aurora campus will be known as the Anschutz Medical Campus.
The new name will reflect the Foundation's generosity and will forge a new campus identity for UCDHSC and the University of Colorado Hospital. Both entities are building a state-of-the-art health care, research and health profession education campus at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora.
The Anschutz Foundation recently gave an additional $25 million to the campus, bringing the total to more than $91 million in gifts and grants to the University of Colorado Hospital and UCDHSC. The $25 million gift, which was facilitated by the CU Foundation, will partially fund the completion of Research Complex 2, scheduled to open in summer 2008.
"We are grateful to The Anschutz Foundation for their confidence and support in providing this transformational gift," said M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, chancellor of the UCDHSC and chairman of the hospital board. "Mr. Anschutz's initial gift to the University of Colorado Hospital served as a catalyst for the move of our facilities and programs to what will become one of the premier medical campuses in the nation. This latest gift to UCDHSC is extremely timely. It is only fitting that the campus now be named after the Anschutz family."
Pending formal approval by the University of Colorado Regents, the naming of the campus as the Anschutz Medical Campus will take effect for the properties occupied by the UCDHSC and the University of Colorado Hospital.
"Phil Anschutz's generosity will help make the new Anschutz Medical Campus a world-class teaching, clinical and research university," said University of Colorado President Hank Brown. "He has been a driving force behind it at each stage, and when the concept of a world-class medical center was at risk, he stepped forward. His latest $25 million gift will help us complete campus facilities threatened by rising construction costs."
The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. Located in Denver and Aurora, Colo., the center includes schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry, a graduate school and a teaching hospital. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.uchsc.edu
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