Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center

The reception area in the Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center

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

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

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
4-130 WDH

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

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

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

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
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