New health care teaching clinic opening in Oak Park

By Keyshawn Davis | Solving Sacramento About six years ago, Dr. William Sands, the director of special projects for University of the Pacific’s Pacific Health Care Collaborative, was tasked with finding a place to locate this new health education program, where students could learn and practice health together in collaboration with UOP.  Sands said he was told by the university’s dean of the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, Dr. Nader Nadershahi, his vision of what that would look like, and Sands started meeting with local, state and federal health advisers to find out where there was a need for it and where the right location would be.& Sands said that with UOP already having a footprint in Sacramento with its School of Health Sciences and McGeorge School of Law, the capital city was a natural choice for the health clinic to be established. Sands said he realized there was a huge need locally, and when two buildings in Oak Park went up for sale, he said those options made sense. The buildings were purchased and one of the two buildings will host the first-of-its-kind medical and dental school, Pacific Health Care Collaborative. “You cannot imagine how proud we are...