Creighton University plans to build a new $75 million medical school facility, providing a new “front door” for the university’s School of Medicine.

Much of the funding will come from C.L. and Rachel Werner, the university said in a news release. The Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, Creighton’s president, announced the plan during his annual convocation Tuesday.

The building will stand near the Interstate 480 and Highway 75 interchange at Cuming Street. The project will also include a new $10 million renovation of the Criss Complex, bringing the total investment in the west side of the campus to $85 million.

The facility will be named the CL Werner Center for Health Sciences Education. It will be the home of the School of Medicine and house space for other health sciences schools and colleges.

“The CL Werner Center will be ideally suited for collaborative, interprofessional teaching and learning,” Hendrickson said. C.L. Werner, founder and retired CEO of Werner Enterprises, said the investment will accelerate the momentum Creighton has in training health care professionals.

“In our business, if you’re moving forward, you’re on the right track, and Creighton is certainly moving forward,” he said.

Creighton will soon be the nation’s largest Catholic health sciences educator, the university said in a statement. The new facility will feature a centralized interdisciplinary simulation center and active group classrooms, bringing together medical, nursing, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, behavioral health and other students to train and learn alongside each other.

“This cutting-edge facility will offer Creighton health sciences students an ideal place to work and learn as one,” said Dr. Robert Dunlay, dean of the medical school. “The challenges of health care require teamwork. Our students will graduate as the clinic-ready health care leaders we need to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care.”

The new facility is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023. Additionally, Creighton plans to open a nearly $100 million health sciences campus in Phoenix this fall.

About 60% of the university’s undergraduate students are pre-health sciences students.