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Issue: 1186 Date: 5/16/2013
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A.T. Still plans $23 million dental school clinic in St. Louis
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Pending accreditation, a $23 million dental school clinic could land in St. Louis near Lafayette Square.
A.T. Still University, a private, nonprofit institution that offers a variety of clinical and health care management degree programs at campuses in Kirksville, Mo., and Mesa, Ariz., is planning to build a dental clinic to serve the underserved and uninsured community in St. Louis.
Students would first spend two years at A.T. Still's new Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health, now under construction at its Kirksville campus, before moving to St. Louis in year three to begin clinical work at a 50,000-square-foot facility.
The new facility is to be built on property west of the historic City Hospital Power Plant building. "We're in escrow on the piece of land," which is owned by a joint venture including developer Stacy Hastie and Chris Goodson's Gilded Age development firm, said Dr. Craig Phelps, president of A.T. Still University.
The school plans to begin enrolling dental students this fall at its Kirksville campus, pending initial accreditation by the Commission of Dental Accreditation. School officials expect to hear back from the commission this summer. Students would then begin working at the clinic in St. Louis as soon as May 2015.
"We definitely recognize there is a huge unmet need for dental schools and oral health care in the [St. Louis] area," Dr. Chris Halliday, inaugural dean of the dental school, said.
School officials expect the clinic to see 47,000 patient visits each year. The school will work closely with Grace Hill Health Center to serve the community, according to Halliday.
The school expects to hire 61 staff members at the clinic. The average salary of the clinic staffers will be $32,000, according to Phelps. Grace Hill will run the clinic's daily operations with plans to bring in about 10 dentists to work at the clinic, according to Phelps.
The Missouri Foundation for Health recently awarded a $1.5 million grant to A.T. Still to help with the further development of the university's new dental school and its partnership with community health centers, including Grace Hill.
That was in addition to $1.5 million in grants the foundation awarded in 2011 and 2012 to help the university with the new school's initial planning and startup.
A.T. Still has annual revenue of about $100 million, according to Phelps. The university currently operates other health care programs including osteopathic medicine, health sciences, health management and dentistry at its Missouri or Arizona campuses or online. |
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