The demand to train those within the medical fields continue to rise. The new health facilities built within San Diego/Imperial Region offer opportunities for learning that bridge the classroom and the workplace. Additionally, students gain a full range of knowledge and skills required for high skill, high wage, or high demand occupations.

Grossmont College:  This two-story complex will house classrooms, labs, lab preparation areas, and faculty and technician offices for the forensic technology, physics and health professions programs (nursing, occupational therapy assistant, respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology assistant, cardiovascular technology and orthopedic technology). Physical sciences labs, a rooftop astronomy lab, two computer labs, and a large lecture hall for health seminars, guest speakers and combined class lectures are other features of this comprehensive facility which completes the college’s science quad area.

San Diego Mesa College:  The three-story 50,000 square-foot Allied Health building, which sits at Mesa Community College, will provide classrooms and training labs for five health care fields: dental assistant, health information technology, medical assistant, physical therapy assistant and radiological technology.  Dean Margie Fritch mentioned the San Diego Workforce Partnership identified that through 2014, four of these fields will be among the 10 most demanding.

San Diego City College: The Career Technology Center (CTC) is a new five‐story, 88,000 sq. ft. instructional and career‐training facility at San Diego City College.  This facility currently under construction would house the expanded Nursing, Cosmetology and Photography and Digital Arts Departments.