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Alison Topp |
Alison Topp is a facilities planner II in the UNMC Department of Facilities Management and Planning and has been the department’s lead on the planning for the new Munroe-Meyer Institute building.
At 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, there will be a symbolic groundbreaking at the new home of the Munroe-Meyer Institute at 6902 Pine St., near the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus. It will be open to the public.
For members of the UNMC Department of Facilities Management and Planning, who have been working with MMI on this project since the beginning, this is merely the halfway point — the symbolic switch from designing an exciting, intuitive and larger new space into actually constructing it, from “thinking about it” to “making it happen.”
It’s also a good time, on behalf of myself and my colleagues, to say thank you to the Munroe-Meyer Institute community.
Thank you to MMI leadership and staff for this chance to give the institute a new, cutting-edge facility — a welcoming home that will build on MMI’s strengths and expand and enhance its services.
Thank you to the philanthropic community, whose support of this effort let us create an institute home that will be more than double MMI’s current size, that will provide a multidisciplinary clinical space for providers and patients, that will help MMI continue to provide the best patient experience possible, that will be at the forefront of design and accessibility.
And thank you to the MMI clients and families for the opportunity to do something amazing. We are inspired by you; we are excited to have the chance to be a part of your aspirations, to help create a space that works best for you. We are making it intuitive; we are providing a facility that is appropriate to your needs. We will give you the kind of spaces you need for state-of-the-art clinical care and therapy — a community-based, cutting-edge treatment home.
We have been working with all of you to figure out what MMI needs in regard to this new building. Now, we will work to make it happen. In transforming this space, we are proud to be part of the Munroe-Meyer Institute’s mission to transform lives. This has been a long road, and we’re not at the end yet. But we are grateful to be taking this journey with all of you, and so proud of what we will have achieved when we reach the end of this process together.