![The reception area in the Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/About-Bentson-1200x420.jpg?itok=_YmQAt3f)
The Bentson Center is an 11,000-square-foot learning simulation environment for nursing education, research, professional development and interprofessional cooperation in Weaver-Densford Hall. It is designed to reflect the future of health care delivery and nursing science.
The Bentson Center is Available for External Use
- State-of-the-art technology: Sophisticated high-tech facilities, integration of electronic health records and use of supportive technologies including mobile records systems and telehealth technology. Thirty-eight cameras make possible the observation, recording and review of simulations and exercises.
- Simulated environments that span the continuum of care: including acute, critical, surgical, skilled, ambulatory and home care settings.
- Designed for optimal team education and training experiences involving a range of health care professionals. The space was carefully planned by an inter-professional team for optimal training and education.
- Opportunities for the health care community: The School of Nursing welcomes community collaboration. Organizations may use the facility to simulate large-scale scenarios for training of hospital or community staff. Other organizations may be more interested in research, development and testing of products and processes in a contemporary health care environment.
Bentson Center Spaces
![Active Learning Lab](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/B-active_learning_lab.jpg?itok=F6zdiZMx)
Active Learning Lab
(4-142 Weaver Densford Hall)
Flexible walls, hospital beds, portable headwalls and a medication room simulate a fully-modern health care environment. High-tech presentation and recording equipment provide a first-rate training experience.
- Laptop computer
- Large portable whiteboard (2)
- 8 Hospital beds
- Independent Learning Lab
- Medication room with Pyxis
- 2 Flat screens
- 3 Video/audio recording stations
- Projector/screen
- Portable headwall units (4)
- Movable walls for expansion
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
![Acute Care simulation room](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/acute_care-1.jpg?itok=kZWveM4x)
Acute Care
(4-136 Weaver Densford Hall)
This two-room suite features an anteroom and acute care room environment. Functional, modern equipment provides a realistic acute care experience.
- Functional touch-free sink
- Flat screen Monitor
- Active headwall with 90 PSI compressed air
- Anteroom
- Video/audio recording
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
- Hospital bed
- Hospital sleeper/chair
- Flat screen monitor
- Anesthesia machine
Classroom Space
(4-130 Weaver Densford Hall)
This area features a large central meeting space that can be enclosed with a glass partition wall. Flexible work tables can be reconfigured for meeting, classroom or small group settings. A central podium controls large presentation screens located throughout the room.
- Desktop computer
- Classroom/iTV capability
- Projectors (2)
- DVD player
- 2 Whiteboard walls
- 70-inch touchscreen monitor (2)
- Video/audio recording
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
- Video Streaming
- Movable walls for expansion
![A Home Environments/Patient Room](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/home_environments-patient_room.jpg?itok=e1UBNhNM)
Home Environments/Patient Room
(4-124 Weaver Densford Hall)
This area includes three connected rooms. The center room is a hospital/nursing home patient room.
- Hospital bed
- Hospital sleeper chair
- Bathroom with sink, tub, shower and toilet
- Video/audio recording
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
- Overhead patient lift
- Portable patient lift
- Active headwall
- Flat screen monitor
- Functional touch-free sink
![Home Environments A & B](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/home-environments-a-and-b-2.jpg?itok=UXKIdzUO)
Home Environments A & B
(4-122 & 4-126 Weaver Densford Hall)
This area includes three connected rooms. Home environment rooms, with simulated living and kitchen spaces, located on either side of a patient room.
- Foldout sofa
- Coffee table
- Kitchenette with table
- Functional sinks
- Flatscreen monitors
- Video/audio recording
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
![Primary Care room](/sites/nursing.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2021-07/primary_care.jpg?itok=F9py7F7p)
Primary Care
(4-114, 4-116 & 4-118 Weaver Densford Hall)
This area includes three separate, identical, adjacent clinic rooms with a large conference table just outside them.
- Exam table
- Desktop computer
- Large flat screen
- Functional sinks
- Wall-mounted diagnostic equipment
- Video/audio recording
- High-capacity conference Wi-Fi
- Provider workstation
- Functional touch-free sink