Facilities Statement

The VCU College of Health Professions celebrated the start of construction on its new state-of-the-art building at a ground breaking event in 2017. The new facility is now complete and provides a unified space for the school’s nine academic units, the dean’s office and the Virginia Center on Aging. Its top-ranked programs had occupied 13 different buildings in the past 45 years, scattered across two campuses. Graduates of the VCU College of Health Professions work together side by side every day to provide the best integrated health care possible — and now, for the first time ever, CHP students will learn that way too. What’s more, the new state-of-the-art facility will exponentially enhance our ability to offer exceptional interdisciplinary research and scholarship experiences. The new building matches the outstanding caliber of our nationally acclaimed academic programs while significantly improving our efforts to attract and recruit the best and brightest students and faculty. It will be a visible reflection of the college’s and VCU’s commitment to preparing students to be the very best in their chosen fields.

Some of the features available to Physical Therapy students include:

  • Instructional classrooms with state-of-the-art multi-media technology.
  • Teaching laboratories modeled after physical therapy orthopaedic and neurorehabilitation clinics with access to the variety of equipment, technology and materials used in contemporary physical therapy practice.
  • Wireless Access points throughout the building.
  • Student Lounge and break-out rooms.
  • Student locker rooms and mailboxes.
  • Individual class communication boards.
  • Research laboratories for studies in amputation rehabilitation, infant motor development and early intervention, low back pain evaluation and treatment, technology to assist mobility and rehabilitation, and skeletal muscle histological evaluation and neuroplasticity.
  • Individual faculty and graduate student offices.

Cadaver dissection is performed in the nearby School of Medicine facilities in Sanger Hall. The Health Sciences Library is located within a three-block walking distance from the department.

Full-time clinical education internships for professional students are offered in physical therapy clinics throughout Virginia and the country. Full-time internships as well as part-time clinical experiences are offered during academic semesters at the VCU Medical Center inpatient acute and rehabilitation hospitals as well as at its outpatient clinics.