Western University to receive $50,000 donation

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

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