Breaking ground for a pharmacy school at William Carey University at Tradition

Today in Harrison County officials broke ground for what will soon be the site of the second pharmacy school in the state of Mississippi. The school at William Carey University is the newest of several health care related projects in the Tradition area.
With the first dig of the shovel comes the first step to bringing a pharmacy school to William Carey University’s campus in Tradition. It’s a ten million dollar facility that’s being built in Biloxi. William Carey University President Dr. Tommy King said, “Pharmacy is projected to be the fastest growing profession in the country in the years ahead.”
In the summer of 2018, the pharmacy school at William Carey will begin to help meet those needs. Pending the approval from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the university hopes to accept their first class of students in the fall of 2018.
It’s the newest of a series of medical related projects in Tradition. This, along with MGCCC’s nursing simulation center next door, and a partnership between the National Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at Tradition and the Cleveland Clinic, leaders are calling Tradition a growing medical city. Governor Phil Bryant said, “We’re short of pharmacists in this state. We need more of them. These students will not only come from Mississippi and prevent them from having to go to strange places like Louisiana and Alabama to learn to be pharmacists. They will be here, but we believe that they will come from all over the world.”
Healthcare is an economic driver and project officials tell News 25 the continued growth of this medical corridor will more than double the average household income of those on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Developer Joe Canizaro said, “The professionals that are going to be involved here will make good salaries and then from them you get retail development, you get housing development and all the rest of it.”
All while improving the health of millions of Americans from right here in South Mississippi.