{"id":510,"date":"2015-04-03T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=510"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:47:56","slug":"governor-jay-inslee-celebrates-wsu-medical-school-in-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/campus-community\/governor-jay-inslee-celebrates-wsu-medical-school-in-spokane\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Jay Inslee Celebrates WSU Medical School in Spokane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students-396x297.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Inslee with WSU Students\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students-396x297.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students-792x594.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students-990x743.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/04\/Inslee-with-students-1188x891.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Jay Inslee visited campus yesterday for an afternoon celebration of the start of WSU&#8217;s new medical school to be located in Spokane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all Cougs today,&#8221; he said shortly after taking the stage in front of a crowd of about 200.<\/p>\n<p>Inslee signed legislation this week allowing WSU to operate a medical school. As the legislature continues its budget negotiations, we should soon learn the amount of funding WSU will receive. Both budget proposals have included money for WSU&#8217;s new medical school.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->WSU President Elson Floyd said a WSU medical school, &#8220;is about the improvement of the quality of life for Washingtonians.&#8221; He added that the university will move quickly to apply for accreditation. It won&#8217;t be on normal time, he said, but rather &#8220;Elson time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers debate budgets in Olympia, WSU leaders will begin forming curriculum, hiring the founding dean and much more. The community-based model this medical school will follow means it will partner with existing hospitals and clinics throughout the entire state for third- and fourth-year medical studies.<\/p>\n<p>News coverage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krem.com\/videos\/money\/2015\/04\/02\/wsu-needs-25-million-to-get-medical-school-going-\/70865738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KREM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxly.com\/news\/spokane-news\/inslee-pledging-to-find-funding-for-wsu-med-school\/32163598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KXLY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khq.com\/clip\/11344708\/gov-inslee-signs-medical-school-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KHQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jay Inslee visited campus yesterday for an afternoon celebration of the start of WSU&#8217;s new medical school to be located in Spokane. &#8220;We are all Cougs today,&#8221; he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":[],"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1513],"tags":[450,680,446,447],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}