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Groundwork has already started on site, which will include a 100,000-SF main building and several other buildings with an expected price tag of approximately $32 million. Parker, now the CEO of the newly named Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, said the opening date has been moved up a year to August 2016, and the college hired Ken Heiles as dean in May.
“Arkansas has a lot of virgin territory,” Edwards said. “Arkansas needs more primary care physicians in rural areas. To have other options for access to care is a good thing. Those rural areas need those physicians.”
Another asset the college will have is a program promised by the Degen Foundation of Fort Smith.
Degen — formerly the Sparks Foundation — has committed to paying hospitals and clinics the approximately $125,000 it costs to host a resident so that no graduate of the ACHE misses out on a residency. (Approximately 97 percent of graduates get residencies on their own, but those who don’t would otherwise have to wait a year before trying again.)
“Any student who comes into our school will pay a large amount of tuition, and if they can’t become a practicing physician, then we have both wasted their money and wasted our money,” said Tom Webb, Degen’s executive director, who served 16 years on the Sparks board of directors. “This isn’t idle talk. This is us living our mission.
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/art...pathic-med-schools-hope-to-fill-need?page=all
“Arkansas has a lot of virgin territory,” Edwards said. “Arkansas needs more primary care physicians in rural areas. To have other options for access to care is a good thing. Those rural areas need those physicians.”
Another asset the college will have is a program promised by the Degen Foundation of Fort Smith.
Degen — formerly the Sparks Foundation — has committed to paying hospitals and clinics the approximately $125,000 it costs to host a resident so that no graduate of the ACHE misses out on a residency. (Approximately 97 percent of graduates get residencies on their own, but those who don’t would otherwise have to wait a year before trying again.)
“Any student who comes into our school will pay a large amount of tuition, and if they can’t become a practicing physician, then we have both wasted their money and wasted our money,” said Tom Webb, Degen’s executive director, who served 16 years on the Sparks board of directors. “This isn’t idle talk. This is us living our mission.
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/art...pathic-med-schools-hope-to-fill-need?page=all