Onvida Health selects local contractor to build Health Careers Center
Manoah Tuiasosopo
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – Onvida Health has chosen a local construction company to build its new 50,000-square-foot Health Careers Center.
It’s Pilkington Construction that will be leading the way.
Clint Harrington, President of Pilkington Construction, says, “Everybody wants to build this building…This is right up our alley.”
In collaboration with Arizona Western College, the new Health Careers Center will be a training ground for future healthcare professionals in and from Yuma, housing numerous medical certificate and degree programs and cutting-edge simulation labs.
Onvida Health CEO Dr. Robert Trenschel says this partnership will also benefit the local economy by providing jobs for the local labor workforce.
“Pilkington has committed to use local contractors so those individuals will have work, they’ll make dollars, and they’ll spend those dollars in our community,” Trenschel explains.
He says it’s like a match made in Heaven adding, “It’s a great story because you’ve got a local contractor building a local building for local students to be educated and trained here and hopefully work here. So, it’s a good news story we think all around.”
Harrington says he plans to make a statement with this new facility.
“My goal is to be the last general contractor that Onvida ever needs to use. Building the building is easy enough, but our goal here is to blow Onvida away. We want an A++,” Harrington stated.
The building will be located behind the Yuma Rehabilitation Hospital off 24th Street and 8th Avenue and is set to be completed in early 2027.