The Health Professions Hub
An education, training, and community health center embedded in Buffalo’s West Side where students, medical professionals, and community members can come together.
Opening January 2021.
Discover The Hub
At D’Youville’s Health Professions Hub — students and health professionals from eight academic disciplines come together to provide specialized medical services to individuals and families from surrounding neighborhoods underserved by the health care industry.
Featuring a clinic, pharmacy, a rehabilitation and wellness center, demonstration café, high-tech simulation center, and more, The Hub is where students train to become future health care providers through innovative educational methods emphasizing interprofessional, patient-centered practice — all while serving our university-wide mission to support healthy, thriving communities.
We Graciously Thank Our Donors
Catholic Health Systems
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
First Niagara Foundation /
Key Bank
James H. Cummings Foundation
George I. Alden Trust
Philip Perna, Linda Ball, and Perna Family
J.M. McDonald Foundation
President Lorrie Clemo
Mary Crowley Carosella ’52
Timothy Kane
Anonymous Donor
Cecelia Kohlmeier ’69
The Health Professions Hub In The News
Achieving Moonshots: How President Lorrie Clemo and D’Youville Are Reshaping Buffalo’s West Side, Economy and Future
Spend any amount of time with Dr. Lorrie Clemo, President of D’Youville College, and you’ll be impressed with her unwavering pursuit of positive change.
New ‘Health Professions Hub’ Will Welcome the Buffalo Community
Three and a half years ago, Lorrie Clemo, the president of D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York, was staring down a projected shortage of 10,000 healthcare workers in the region by 2024.
CannonDesign’s Buffalo community health hub supports a neighborhood and region in need
Seemingly appropriate for a former women’s school established in 1908 by a group of Quebecoise nuns, D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York, is largely cloistered from the neighborhood flanking it.
KeyBank, in partnership with the First Niagara Foundation, Donates $1 Million to Support D’Youville’s Health Professions Hub
KeyBank, in partnership with the First Niagara Foundation, is donating $1 million to support the Health Professions Hub at D’Youville.
Let's Connect
However you're interested in our progress, from a donor to a community member to a student planning for their future, we're excited to share our updates and to connect with you. We know the Health Professions Hub will transform our neighborhood and our city and if you're ready to join us, we're ecstatic to welcome you.