The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

A $2.2 million gift to Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (CPPS) will increase opportunities for PharmD students to focus on the health care needs of residents in rural Washington.

This extraordinary anonymous gift has helped launch CPPS’ Rural Health Initiative (RHI) to improve access to health care in the rural communities of Washington. Starting in the fall of 2021, RHI is an ambitious 10-year plan to create opportunities for student pharmacists and post-graduate pharmacists to specialize in delivering rural health care. Access to health care provi...