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黑料不打烊鈥檚  will open a Multidisciplinary Care Clinic and Ambulatory Surgery Center on the San Francisco Campus designed specifically to serve individuals of all ages with special needs.

The Board of Regents approved $22 million for the project. The university is launching a fundraising campaign to support the project and recently secured a $5 million Specialty Dental Clinic Grant from the California Health Facilities Financing Authority.

The center will span 13,000 square feet on the first floor of the school with four operating rooms, eight operatories, five mixed medical/dental treatment rooms and a sensory waiting room specifically designed to make dental appointments easier for patients with sensory processing disorders and other conditions.

Programs currently on the first floor, including audiology and music therapy, will be moved to the sixth floor to make room for the new clinical services.

The center is slated to open in 18 months and is expected to triple patient visits in the Special Care and Hospital Dentistry programs to more than 8,000 when fully operational.

鈥淥ur location and this design will allow us to better meet the oral health care needs of our patients with special needs and to partner with other healthcare providers, such as otolaryngology partners from Stanford Health. We hope to better coordinate care and use the new clinics to their full potential, allowing patients to receive quality collaborative health care services in addition to excellent patient-centered dental care,鈥� said Dean Nader Nadershahi.

The new clinics aim to improve underserved populations鈥� access to oral health care while preparing Pacific students to care for communities with complex health care needs in their own practices.

The center will support internships in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry programs and the new Hospital Dentistry internship. It will expand the Pediatric and Adult Special Care and Hospital Dentistry programs, making them more accessible with shorter waitlists.

鈥淭he planned Ambulatory Surgical Center and Multidisciplinary Advanced Care Clinic will allow the Dugoni School of Dentistry to take patient care and dental education to the next level,鈥� said Elisa Ch谩vez, professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences and principal investigator for the grant. 鈥淭hese new spaces will pave the way for us to expand access to care for those with developmental or acquired disabilities and complex medical conditions, develop new residencies in oral and maxillofacial surgery, pediatrics and general dentistry and provide our pre-doctoral students important opportunities for learning as well.鈥�

鈥淗aving access to ambulatory surgical services on site and additional operatories designed and staffed to care for individuals young and old with special health care needs will allow us to provide a full spectrum of care to patients with diverse needs.鈥�

To learn more about how to support the clinic and surgery center, contact Eric Dumbleton, associate dean for development at the Dugoni School, at 415.929.6422 or edumbleton@pacific.edu.