FAMU aims to rescue a University of Florida dental clinic that is slated to close on June 30, 2010.The facility, which UF has operated for 23 years, offers low-cost dental care to poor patients. It charges about 30 percent less than the regular market price.
“People come as far as Tallahassee, Florida,” said Benita Ross, a dental assistant. “We've had patients come as far as Tennessee. People just love the comfort, the care that we give them.”
According to UF, the Jacksonville clinic is housed in “a 2-story, 13,000 square foot building. Completed in 1987, the first floor houses the educational programs and patient care services. There are 12 dental operatories, two radiology rooms, a dental laboratory, a conference room and required clinic support services spaces. The second floor primarily consists of office space for the college.”
UF plans to close the clinic at the end of this fiscal year. It is looking for another university to sponsor the operation.
Sen. Alfred “Al” Lawson, who recently netted a special $6M appropriation for FAMU outreach projects, said the money could go to help FAMU take over the dental clinic.
Moving into the Jacksonville building would significantly reduce the start-up costs associated with opening a FAMU College of Dental Medicine. FAMU could begin its program in Jacksonville until it acquires a facility in Tallahassee. After that, the Jacksonville clinic could become a residency site.
FAMU’s dental school proposal already has an enthusiastic endorsement from the Jacksonville Times-Union.
FAMU should place this clinic under the leadership of Dean Henry Lewis of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmacutical Sciences. He is the last dean left standing at FAMU worth a damn! In addition, Dean Lewis should have a replacement plan in place for when he leaves and not be like SBI when it lost Mobley.
ReplyDeleteFAMU must do better now!
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ReplyDeleteAin't nobody ask you for your opinion. Henry Lewis is a tyrant.
It looks like FAMU has been manuevering well on this initiative.
ReplyDeleteIt does and I think this is one of two JAX locations being looked at. The Rx college will have a successor and the politics behind the SBI issues had lore to do with outside entities than with lack of a successor. As with any institution, internal promotion is desired but the outside applicant has to be interested or the search or succession appears to be botched or loaded with suspicious maneuvers. Sometimes you can't win if there isn't some sort of campaign to usher in certain things, Even the Heisman and Academy Awards require such a thing, no matter what Ms. Monique says. Go FAMU Dental School.
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ReplyDeleteGo to HeL*! Tyrants get the job done and Dean Lewis gets the job done.....If FAMU as a whole was run like COPPS then FAMU would have 30,000 TOP Black Students! And would be at the an GREAT place to be!
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