Pacific Medical Buildings developing
new outpatient center and clinic
FACILITY WILL BE USED BY THREE NEW WESTERN UNIVERSITY COLLEGES
SAN DIEGO, March 19, 2009 - Pacific Mellical Buildings (PMB), a leading developer of outpatient
healthcare facilities and hospital-based parking structures, is developing an outpatient care center for the Western University of Health Sciences on its campus in Pomona, Calif.
Located on the university campus on East 2nd Street, the new three-story, 68,000 square foot Patient
Care Center has been specifically designed to accommodate multi-disciplinary teaching,clinics and
office space. Three newly formed colleges will be using the facility inciudlng dentistry, optometry and
podiatry. The college of osteopathic medicine will be utilizing the center as well.
"We are very excited to be working wlth PMB to build our new Patient Care Center," says Kevin
Shaw, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Western University of Health Sciences. "They
have been a great resource for us by providing the development expertise that we needed for the
project. They have also worked on a very fast track to meet our extremely tight and critical timing
deadlines, which will enable us to enroll students in our three new colleges in the fall of 2009."
In a unique approach to teaching, medical students from different specialties will have the opportunity to work together in professional student learning rotations to examine and treat patients in the clinic. The outpatient clinic will also be staffed by Western University faculty and will be open to the general
public.
Other servlces in the Patient Care Center include a pharmacy, optometry clinic and an outpatient
dental clinic. The facility also includes an attached seven-level parking structure, and is scheduled for
completion in the fall of 2009.
"It has been a great experience working with everyone at Western Unlversity," says James Rohan,
Senior VP, Development, PMB. "Even though this project required a lot of coordination with the
deans of many departments, the team was very cooperative in giving us input for the programming.
This is a very successful example of a partnership between a developer and a university. We think that
these kinds of partnerships are going to be even more prevalent in the future."
About Western University of Health Sciences.
Founded in 1977, Western Unlversity of Health Sciences is a nonprofit, graduate university for the
health professions. The university campus includes nine major buildings located on 22 acres in
downtown Pomona, Calif. WesternU is one of the largest graduate schools for the health professions in
California. Alumni rank among the very top leaders In health care and medicine throughout the
country and the world. All of the healthcare programs have professional accreditations, and the
university is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the
Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
About PMB
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PMB specializes exclusively in the development and management of medical office buildings,
outpatient facilities and parking structures for hospitals, medical groups and universities. PMB was
formed when the senior executives of American Medical Buildings acquired the West Coast division in
a management buyout; the newly-formed company was named PMB. For more than 37 years, PMB's
executives have led the industry In the development and management of medical care buildings, with
75 healthcare facilities constructed to date throughout the Western United States. The firm currently
owns and manages more than 30 facilities totaling more than 2.5 million square feet, and has 12
more facilities under development that will total 750,000 square feet with 2,000 structured parking
stalls. The total value of the Rrm's development projects exceeds $250 million. The San Diego-based
flrm also has offices in Honolulu; Los Angeles; Phoenix; Vancouver, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; and
Nevada.
