Portland — Linfield College plans a significant expansion of its Portland nursing school, announcing Monday it has purchased 20 acres in outer Northeast Portland to house the program.
Many Linfield nursing students currently split their college years between its main campus in McMinnville, Ore., and its current training facility at the Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland. But the Portland site is at capacity and Linfield’s lease with Legacy was set to expire.
So Linfield spent $14.5 million to buy the campus now occupied by the University of Western States, which offers chiropractic and sports medicine treatment and education. Linfield said UWS is looking for a new site and will lease back the facility until 2020, at which time Linfield will move its Portland site from Legacy to the new campus across town.
