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http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/01/16/news/community/6aaa01_hospital.txt
Oregons first new medical school in more than a century could be built in Lebanon within three years.
Corvallis-based hospital operator Samaritan Health Services is teaming up with a California university and several other partners to create a health care education campus centered around an osteopathic medical college.
Plans also call for a conference and events center, a hotel and restaurant complex, a medical office building and additional buildings to house programs in other medical specialties such as nursing or physical therapy. The 51-acre campus would stand across U.S. Highway 20 from Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, with a pedestrian bridge linking the two.
This is really going to be a transforming event for the valley, said Larry Mullins, president and chief executive of Samaritan Health Services. Mullins said he expects construction to start by 2010, with the first class of medical students enrolling in 2011. The school would accept about 50 students a year to start with, ramping up to about 100 a year over time.
The new medical school will be affiliated with the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, a division of Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, Calif............
Oregons first new medical school in more than a century could be built in Lebanon within three years.
Corvallis-based hospital operator Samaritan Health Services is teaming up with a California university and several other partners to create a health care education campus centered around an osteopathic medical college.
Plans also call for a conference and events center, a hotel and restaurant complex, a medical office building and additional buildings to house programs in other medical specialties such as nursing or physical therapy. The 51-acre campus would stand across U.S. Highway 20 from Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, with a pedestrian bridge linking the two.
This is really going to be a transforming event for the valley, said Larry Mullins, president and chief executive of Samaritan Health Services. Mullins said he expects construction to start by 2010, with the first class of medical students enrolling in 2011. The school would accept about 50 students a year to start with, ramping up to about 100 a year over time.
The new medical school will be affiliated with the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, a division of Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, Calif............
