Gordon E. Inman Center
The Gordon E. Inman Center, completed in 2006, houses the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing, including facilities for the School of Nursing, School of Occupational Therapy, and Social Work Department. A new building, to be completed in June 2010, will house the School of Pharmacy and School of Physical Therapy.
The center bears the name of Gordon E. Inman, one of Middle Tennessee's most successful bankers, real estate developers, entrepreneurs and business leaders. His generous donation of $10.5 million is the largest single
gift in Belmont University's history. Support from Inman, and a $7.5 million gift from HCA's TriStar Health System division, is helping Belmont make a sizeable dent in the acute shortage of health care professionals in Tennessee, the Southeast and the nation.
Special Features of the Gordon E. Inman Center
State-of-the-art simulation manequins who breathe, respond to touch and other stimuli, and provide a life-like patient care environment. 
A unique Peri-Operative Learning Room that provides a recreated surgical room exposing students to the responsibilities they will eventually be expected to assume. While they may not perform surgery, nurses spend more time in the operating room than doctors, caring for patients before, during and after surgery.
An embedded apartment in the Inman building which allows occupational therapy and social work students to observe home activities and evaluate if a home is safe, especially for senior living safety issues.
A reproduction of hospital “Clean Utility Rooms” to provide nursing students with an opportunity to learn the fiscal connection between the costs of care and direct nursing care. Equipment is bar-coded so that students have an understanding of the fiscal connection with care.
An acute care lab (ACL) containing hospital beds, Meditech terminals and computers that are used to document the assigned skill after performing it in lab. In the ACL, students will have the opportunity to learn skills needed in intensive care units. This real-life space is used for classroom demonstration and clinical simulation.
A pediatric simulation laboratory which includes a “birthing bed” that has a simulator to enable students to learn how to “catch” babies, a warmer, a postpartum bed, two rocking chairs and a pediatric crib, all designed to promote patient safety. Pediatric and maternity clinical sites are scarce learning resources in hospitals.
A media tech room with everything students need to help fashion the everyday objects individuals use without thought. Here future occupational therapists will learn splinting, woodworking, casting, leatherworking and other skills that will teach OTs how to modify the simplest of household items.
Suspensions systems for OTs and PTs to learn how to assist children with physical and developmental challenges with balance and walking. Further, as play is the work of children, OTs and PTs will work with finger paints, dough and specially crafted pencils and pens to improve children’s coordination and writing skills.
