California Northstate’s new dental college is coming to Sacramento. Here’s where
An extension site for California Northstate University’s new dental college will fill a vacant office building on Broadway in Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood, university officials announced Tuesday.
The extension of California Northstate’s College of Dental Medicine will be built at 2200 Broadway, according to a news release from the university, and will include an 80-chair dental clinic.
The dental college is a recent launch by the Elk Grove-based, for-profit medical university. California Northstate announced the school in late 2018, filed an initial application in 2019 and received provisional approval to operate by the Dental Board of California earlier this year.
The dental college admitted its first class in January of this year and its second in July, with admissions currently underway for a third, according to Tuesday’s news release.
The Broadway facility will give the up-and-coming program a permanent home, California Northstate officials said.
“We see the Broadway corridor in Sacramento as an area that will provide a variety of housing, commercial, and service-related activities,” Dr. Alvin Cheung, president and CEO of California Northstate, said in a prepared statement. “We look forward to developing a lasting legacy of healthcare professionals through education, clinical interaction, and service to the community.”
The Broadway site was chosen due to its centrality in the greater Sacramento area, as well as transportation availability, said Dr. Kevin Keating, dean of the dental college, in a prepared statement.
California Northstate’s college of medicine was placed earlier this year on two-year probation by an academic accreditation agency, for reasons that have not been publicly disclosed.
The medical school still plans to build a $1 billion hospital and medical school in North Natomas at the site of the former Sleep Train Arena.
The probationary status does not affect university operations, university officials said.
