WSU Spokane makes progress with med school

How will Washington State University’s plan to have a second public medical school in the state of Washington impact Odessa? We believe it will make things better in a variety of significant ways.

First, the vision for this medical school from the late WSU President Elson S. Floyd was to give rural Washingtonians help on a serious shortage of physicians in our state, not to mention on the shortage in our rural areas. As a land grant university, it is WSU’s mission to meet the needs of the people of our state when we are able, and we believe wholeheartedly we are able.

Second, the WSU medical s...