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.
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…