Cornell University’s Health Services began a $55 million expansion and renovation in May 2015. The facility will “support collaboration among mental health, medical and health-promotion staff to provide state-of-the-art, integrated clinical and public health services to all people … whose health is influenced by the academic and social environment of this campus and this community.” In addition, the expansion will include a new Skorton Center for Health Initiatives where a multidisciplinary team of health professionals “will create and implement programs to support the community’s physical, mental and sociological health (and) will become a model of integrated medical and mental health services where patients will be treated as whole persons.” The building is scheduled to open in 2017.

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