“D’Youville College’s Health Professions Hub will confront two critical challenges in the Buffalo region when it opens in 2021. First, the city’s West Side community, rich with immigrants and refugees, is woefully underserved and faces complex challenges around limited access to care and prevalent poverty and food insecurity. Concurrently, the region anticipates a critical shortage of healthcare professionals in excess of 10,000 by 2024.”

The goals of the interior design are to connect to the exterior design and surrounding neighborhood, emphasize transparency and active design, and to create an appealing and innovative campus destination.