COVID-19 relief efforts

Newly-released enrollment figures show Western University of Health Sciences remains a highly-valued destination for students wanting to impact society as health care professionals. WesternU has an enrollment of 3,816 students for the 2020-21 academic year, an increase from the 2019-20 count of 3,792. The University welcomed more than 1,100 new students in the fall.
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Western University of Health Sciences has secured Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for its College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest students to last them through their clinical rotations this academic …
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Western University of Health Sciences, which has campuses in Pomona, California and Lebanon, Oregon, is gaining national recognition from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) for developing two algorithms to help physicians and other health care providers think through issues related to student exposures to COVID-19 at home or while on clinical rotations.
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Western University of Health Sciences has raised more than $90,000 to provide direct relief for students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WesternU established the fund in March 2020 as campuses and …
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Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) alumnus Jason Wei, DO ’17, was on a pediatric rehabilitation rotation at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) …
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Researching COVID-19 to develop treatments is a global effort, and Western University of Health Sciences is contributing to this scientific knowledge. WesternU faculty recently published two separate articles investigating COVID-19.
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Western University of Health Sciences faculty and staff are collaborating with a local surgeon to expedite the COVID-19 testing process.
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COMP student Farhan Himmati started the Himmati Foundation with his mother and two brothers. The foundation provides masks, gloves and food to homeless shelters across the country.
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About 20 Western University of Health Sciences students from the College of Graduate Nursing and the College of Health Sciences are helping to collect COVID-19 tests at Fairplex in Pomona, California.
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The world has irrevocably changed in the past few months, but Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine graduates are ready to meet whatever challenges lie ahead.
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