Media advisory: Health clinic groundbreaking May 6

By WSU News & Media Relations

SPOKANE, Wash. – A groundbreaking for the University District Health Clinic will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 6, east of the Washington State University Spokane Bookie at 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd. Construction will be completed in the next year.

The primary care community clinic will house Spokane medical residency programs sponsored by the Spokane Teaching Health Consortium. WSU and Eastern Washington University students will work with medical residents in interprofessional care teams, a model that is uncommon throughout the country.

Consortium members are WSU Spokane, Providence Health Care and Empire Health Foundation.

 

Contacts:
Terren Roloff, WSU Spokane, 509-358-7527, terren.roloff@wsu.edu
Erica Hallock, Empire Health Foundation, 509-991-2390, erica@empirehealthfoundation.org
Liz Deruyter, Providence Health Care, 509-474-3081, elizabeth.deruyter@providence.org

 

 

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