ALBANY, Ore. — At their March 17 meeting, Linn County Commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker signed a letter of support for a grant application by Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) to obtain an ODOT Connect Oregon grant to aid in the construction of a new medical school campus in Lebanon, the county said in a media release.
WesternU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Northwest (COMP-Northwest) opened in Lebanon in 2011 west of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and adjacent to what is now the Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home.
WesternU plans to create a 150-acre campus on property that was donated by the Heatherington Foundation. The property is east of the current campus and is bordered by Gil’s Landing and the South Santiam River…