WSU Health Sciences Spokane announces partnership

WSU Health Sciences Spokane is announcing a partnership with Veterans Affairs and Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center as they become the newest occupant in our Spokane Teaching Health Center. This collaboration allows for an additional, convenient location for the VA to continue providing quality primary care to veterans while allowing future health care professionals the opportunity to train alongside VA experts.

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Mon., Aug. 31, 2020

After a press conferen e announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, participants gather for a photo, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus. From left, they are Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, STHC Operations Director Traci Couture, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center Director Dr. Robert Fischer, Washington State Unversity President Kirk Schulz, WSU Spokane Chancellor Dr. Daryll DeWald, Dr. Kim Morris, former Spokane mayor David Condon and Dr. Matt Layton of the Elson S. Floyd School of Medicine.

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Washington State University President Kirk Schulz speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers speaks at a ceremony in this August 2020 photo. McMorris Rodgers sponsored legislation that would extend an international cybersecurity program. It was passed by both chambers of Congress and is now headed to becoming a law.

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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WSU Spokane Chancellor Dr. Daryll DeWald, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and WSU President Kirk Schulz listen to speeches at a press conference announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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After speeches were given, others applaud as WSU Spokane Chancellor Dr. Daryll DeWald and Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center Dr. Kim Morris hold up a plaque commemorating a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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Dr. Matt Layton, clinical education director at the Elson Floyd School of Medicine, speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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At a press conference announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, nurse-anesthetist John Givens, left, and Dr. Brian Yates listen to Dr. Kim Morris, right, talk about the new initiative, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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Traci Couture, operations manager of the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic, speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center Director Dr. Frank Fischer, left, speaks at a ceremony announcing a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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After speeches were given, (from left) Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center director Dr. Robert Fischer, WSU Spokane Chancellor Daryll DeWald, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and VA Dr. Kim Morris hold a plaque commemorating a partrnership between the VA medical center and the WSU medical school in Spokane, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. The effort will put VA doctors and other caregivers in the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the WSU Spokane campus.

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