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The Diane Ramy Faulconer CARE Center
FIU Distinguished Alumna
Diane Ramy Faulconer ‘74, Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and Master’s in Management, has made it her mission to support the future of healthcare education and practice for more than 40 years. Her philanthropic legacy with FIU was secured when she first gave a generous planned gift directed toward graduate nursing and graduate accounting student scholarships. Her expanding philanthropic objectives, as revealed through a second transformational gift to the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences, were recognized in June 2022 when the College celebrated the naming of the Diane Ramy Faulconer CARE Center.
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The newly upgraded 16,000-square-foot CARE Center features labs and clinical resources that support the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology programs complete with interdisciplinary integration with nursing. The CARE Center is the rehabilitative complement to the acute care focus of the College’s Simulation Teaching and Research (STAR) Center. Together, they provide students and faculty with specialized healthcare education, interprofessional practice, and evidence-based research opportunities across the full continuum of patient care.
Ms. Faulconer understands that highquality healthcare includes an emphasis on optimal recovery. To that end, she established the Diane Ramy Faulconer CARE Center Endowment to assist the College with funds to acquire superior resources, equipment, and new technology to propel rehabilitation practice and research methods that will significantly improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities and advance knowledge related to homebased care.
At the heart of the CARE Center is a state-of-the-art simulated home environment — including bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room. This model will serve as a focal point for the development and testing of home-based care and rehabilitation strategies that will define home health delivery and management for the industry.
“With her support of the CARE Center, Diane is bringing into focus the essential role of rehabilitative nursing and health sciences professions toward bettering patient care and outcomes,” said Dean Ora L. Strickland. “Her transformational generosity and commitment to enhance nursing and health sciences education will change countless lives today and in the future. Diane Ramy Faulconer is a kind and caring individual who is committed to improving patient care, which makes it most fitting to have her name grace our CARE Center.”