FIU breaks ground on new Ambulatory Care Center

FIU President Maidique, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Dean Rock and other university supporters were on hand for the ceremony on July 31 at Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

By Martin Haro

A group of FIU administrators, faculty/staff, alumni and university supporters, including longtime FIU benefactor Dr. Herbert Wertheim, gathered on July 31 at the site of the future FIU Ambulatory Care Center for a groundbreaking ceremony presided over by FIU President Modesto A. Maidique and Hertbert Wertheim College of Medicine Founding Dean Dr. John Rock.

In 2007, the Miami-Dade County Commission, as well as Mayor Carlos Alvarez, endorsed a resolution allocating $10 million to fund the Ambulatory Care Center from the Building Better Communities General Obligation Bonds to construct and improve the community’s healthcare facilities in order to promote accessibility to quality health care services.

The center will be a part of what Maidique calls “a healthcare complex [at FIU] that will serve in the treatment of our community and as a working classroom for our medical students.”

Also at the event was FIU Board of Trustees Chair-elect Albert Dotson Sr., who said, “[FIU’s College of Medicine has] only just begun.”