Western University to receive $50,000 donation

Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona has received a $50,000 commitment to honor a member of the first graduating class of the university's College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. Dr. Herbert Mendelson, founder of Mendelson Orthopedics in Livonia, Mich., has pledged to donate $50,000 to the school in memory of his brother, a member of the college's charter class in 1978. Dr. Sol Mendelson graduated from the college in 1982 and was a general practitioner in Temecula for 24 years. He died in 2006.

In appreciation of the gift, Western will name a patient-care unit at its new Patient Care Center "The Dr. Sol Mendelson Memorial Interprofessional Patient Suite."