University of Minnesota leaders and faculty, state officials, clinic staff and patient board members broke ground on a new Community-University Health Care Center building. Twice the size of the current clinic, the new, advanced facility will expand patient access, enhance care delivery and strengthen the University’s health professional training programs.

At the University of Minnesota, a human heart beats outside the body, without a pacemaker, connected to machines that keep it oxygenated. It has its own internal electrical system. It’s not a simulation: it’s a real organ beating outside the chest.