Office of the Vice Provost for Health

Simulation Center Facilities

The Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences (CHS) is a 217,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for students, health professionals and researchers to collaborate, learn, and demonstrate skills. Click here to take a virtual tour!


Assessment Labs Equipment: Male and Female Laerdal Total Care Dolls and Adult Scales Standing Use: Provides space for teaching, skills training, and assessment **********************************************************************************************************************

Hospital Simulation Equipment: Infant Incubators; Infant Viewing Carts; Graesby 3000 IV Pumps (MERC); Baxter FloGard6201; IVAC Infusion Pump; IV Poles Rolling; Kangaroo Feeding Pump; Welch Allyn Rolling Halogen Exam Lights; Adult Scales Standing; Hoyer Lift w/ Sling; Bak-Pak Transfer Board (MERC) (315A); ICU Bed (315B); Laerdal SimBaby (315D); Birthing Bed (315D); and Commode Seat (315E) Use: Room B provides a space for simulation scenarios in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), while rooms C through G provide space for simulation scenarios in patient rooms **********************************************************************************************************************

Model Patient Suite Equipment: Exam Tables and wall diagnostic sets Use: Provides space for teaching, skills training, and assessment		Simulation Suite Equipment: PS, ECS, patient monitors, crash carts, simulator/room gasses, and LCD projector Use: Simulations, debriefing, and scenario development

Gait Analysis Lab Equipment: Vicon Motion Analysis System, Neurocom Smart Equitest System, and Biodex Multi-Joint System Use: Equipment in the floor and cameras mounted on ceiling are used to create 3-D images of a person’s movement, balance, and strength		Skills Lab Equipment: Musculoskeletal Models, Positioning tables, and Diagnostic Sets Use: Provides a space for teaching Physical therapy, Physicians Assistant, and Nursing programs

Model Living Suite Equipment: Multiple patient transfer areas and adaptive equipment Use: Creates a simulated environment for students to learn how to teach someone to perform daily activities while living with an injury **********************************************************************************************************************

Radiation Therapy Equipment: X-ray machines, dark room, sonography machines, Ximatron simulator, and Oncology Treatment Planning Systems Use: Space is for the Radiologic and Imaging Sciences, specialties that are self-standing professions using either ionizing, sound, or radio radiations to produce diagnostic images and guide invasive and non-invasive procedures of the body **********************************************************************************************************************

Microbiology and Clinical Lab Science Equipment: Microscopes, incubators, fume hoods, Celldyn 3200, Atac 8000, and centrifuges Use: The space is used to teach complex analyses and perform tests in order to develop data on the blood, tissues, and fluids of the human body which play an important role in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of many diseases ********************************************************************************************************************** For information on renting Simulation Center space, contact Ron Perkins Ron Perkins Email: perkinsr@gvsu.edu Phone: 616-331-3059