Ground broken for Yakima Washington medical school

A new medical school will produce graduates to work in rural parts of the Pacific Northwest where doctors are scarce, its backers said Wednesday.

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences officials broke ground in the Yakima suburb of Terrace Heights on the College of Osteopathic Medicine. The $16 million, 46,000-square-foot building is expected to open on the 42-acre campus in the fall of 2008.

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