Phoenix – Occupational Therapy Program

With the support of donors like you, Creighton will change the face of health care in the Southwest and form a new generation of compassionate, well-trained professionals ready to meet the needs of our communities.

Your support will help the occupational therapy program in Phoenix address some of its most immediate needs, including scholarships, programs, faculty support and more. It will infuse the area with some of the most real-world-ready occupational therapists in the nation.

Extensive hands-on opportunities will prepare them for the field. Dedicated faculty and staff will ensure they flourish. A Jesuit-inflected humanities curriculum will inspire them not just to treat the illness but meet the needs of the whole person, in a spirit of service and compassion.

Our occupational therapy students are here, learning and serving, because of you. Your support makes everything — this campus, this education, this mission — possible.

The difference you make

"My undergraduate experiences at Creighton prepared me for the rigors of my OT program. I’m so grateful to our donors and understand that my good fortune is created by the contributions of alumni who came before me." 

— Kailey Beckwith, occupational therapy student, Class of 2023

The building was just the beginning

In 2021, hundreds of students, faculty and staff walked into a beautiful new building in midtown Phoenix. This building, this moment, was both the culmination of a dream and the answer to a question: How can we help?

How can we deepen our longtime ties to a city’s medical community into something greater? How can we infuse more healthcare professionals into a state that needs them now?

In the end, the answer was a beacon, a new home for the Creighton health sciences in Phoenix—the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Health Sciences Building.

In the short time it’s been open, the campus has already drawn hundreds more medical, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, physical therapy and occupational therapy students to the city.

At full enrollment, the Creighton University Health Sciences Campus in Phoenix will accommodate about 1,000 students, including occupational therapists and other healthcare professionals, to help meet the state’s booming population and the growing needs of aging and diverse demographics.

What is Giving Day?

It’s the day you make a difference for Creighton University.

The day you can support our most immediate areas of need.

The day thousands of donors like you come together to make a huge collective impact, one gift at a time.

P.S. — Your gift will also support Creighton's historic Forward Blue fundraising campaign!