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CVM to assume campus clinic operations The WesternU Pet Wellness Center will continue to be open
The Banfield Veterinary Clinical Center on the WesternU to the public to provide health care services for pets. The
campus will become the WesternU Pet Wellness Center over facility will be fully functional throughout the transition
the next several months, as the university transitions from a period over the next several months.
partnership arrangement with Banfield into operating its
community practice teaching hospital with full autonomy. New student housing project celebrated
The Daumier at Western University of Health Sciences will
provide housing and recreation to students, while its
development also reflects the founding principles of the
university.
WesternU held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 27, 2014
for the Daumier, a $45-million, 173,000-square-foot mixed-
use project on 3.6 acres at Third and Linden streets in
Pomona, Calif. The four-story building will include student-
focused apartment-type residential quarters, as well as about
10,000 square feet of administrative space to be occupied by
WesternU. The Daumier has 202 units with 305 beds, with
studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom floor plans.
Students will move in beginning July 25.
The transition comes as the 10-year affiliation agreement
between Banfield and WesternU’s College of Veterinary
Medicine expires. Since 2004, WesternU and Banfield have
partnered to provide veterinary services on the Pomona The project started in fall 2010 as conversations with
campus. That agreement ends in December of this year.
WesternU administrators, said Robert Kim, executive
managing director of Hanover Pacific, the project developer.
“The relationship between WesternU and Banfield has been
mutually beneficial, and we want to thank all of those who He recalled an early conversation he had with WesternU
have supported us (Banfield and WesternU) over the past 10 President Philip Pumerantz, PhD.
years,” said Phillip Nelson, DVM, PhD, Dean of the College “He stated that aside from the benefits to the university, this
of Veterinary Medicine. “We look forward to the exciting project was important because it would create jobs and help
opportunities that present themselves in establishing our support families,” Kim said. “So with that social purpose,
own practice philosophy, and we will do everything we can community purpose and benefit, we moved forward on the
to make sure that this transition does not negatively affect long journey to where we are today.”
customer service or the health of our patients.”
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CVM to assume campus clinic operations The WesternU Pet Wellness Center will continue to be open
The Banfield Veterinary Clinical Center on the WesternU to the public to provide health care services for pets. The
campus will become the WesternU Pet Wellness Center over facility will be fully functional throughout the transition
the next several months, as the university transitions from a period over the next several months.
partnership arrangement with Banfield into operating its
community practice teaching hospital with full autonomy. New student housing project celebrated
The Daumier at Western University of Health Sciences will
provide housing and recreation to students, while its
development also reflects the founding principles of the
university.
WesternU held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 27, 2014
for the Daumier, a $45-million, 173,000-square-foot mixed-
use project on 3.6 acres at Third and Linden streets in
Pomona, Calif. The four-story building will include student-
focused apartment-type residential quarters, as well as about
10,000 square feet of administrative space to be occupied by
WesternU. The Daumier has 202 units with 305 beds, with
studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom floor plans.
Students will move in beginning July 25.
The transition comes as the 10-year affiliation agreement
between Banfield and WesternU’s College of Veterinary
Medicine expires. Since 2004, WesternU and Banfield have
partnered to provide veterinary services on the Pomona The project started in fall 2010 as conversations with
campus. That agreement ends in December of this year.
WesternU administrators, said Robert Kim, executive
managing director of Hanover Pacific, the project developer.
“The relationship between WesternU and Banfield has been
mutually beneficial, and we want to thank all of those who He recalled an early conversation he had with WesternU
have supported us (Banfield and WesternU) over the past 10 President Philip Pumerantz, PhD.
years,” said Phillip Nelson, DVM, PhD, Dean of the College “He stated that aside from the benefits to the university, this
of Veterinary Medicine. “We look forward to the exciting project was important because it would create jobs and help
opportunities that present themselves in establishing our support families,” Kim said. “So with that social purpose,
own practice philosophy, and we will do everything we can community purpose and benefit, we moved forward on the
to make sure that this transition does not negatively affect long journey to where we are today.”
customer service or the health of our patients.”
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