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• Lincoln Memorial University��hosted a��grand opening for its��Orange Park, Fla.,��health sciences campus,��on��March 23.����

• The��12-acre��site spans��about��130,000 square feet��across two buildings and will house osteopathic medicine and veterinary medicine programs.����

• LMU says the Orange Park location positions LMU-DCOM as the��first four-year medical school in the greater Jacksonville area.����

• The campus is slated to open in��fall 2026��in a newly renovated��85,000-square-foot��facility for a class of��100.����

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ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) has expanded its health sciences footprint in Northeast Florida with an Orange Park campus that will house osteopathic medicine and veterinary medicine programs. The campus — which spans approximately 130,000 square feet across two buildings on 12 acres — is designed for interprofessional, clinically focused training, with inaugural cohorts expected to begin this fall. The university hosted a formal grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 23.��

In��an��announcement, LMU President Dr. Jason McConnell framed the expansion as a milestone for health education in the state. “The Orange Park campus represents a significant step forward,” according to��.����

The campus is home to the LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) and the LMU-College of Veterinary Medicine at Orange Park (LMU-OPCVM) and��is intended to strengthen the regional health care workforce.��LMU also positions the Orange Park site as a regional medical education milestone. The location establishes LMU-DCOM as “the first four-year medical school in the greater Jacksonville area,” and that the program will mirror LMU-DCOM curricula offered in Harrogate and Knoxville, Tenn.����

LMU states that DCOM at LMU-Orange Park will offer the same four-year, full-time academic and clinical program as the Harrogate and Knoxville campuses,��and that the new campus is expected to��serve��a��class of 100.��The facility is designed to support innovative, clinically focused education and to strengthen the regional health care workforce.��

In a statement, the institution also highlighted the��“One Health”��approach��that brings human and veterinary medicine together on one campus. “Bringing human and veterinary medicine��together… reinforces the importance of a One Health perspective,” according to��.����

For LMU-DCOM, Dr. James Toldi,��Campus��Dean for the Orange Park site, said the new campus is intended to support clinical training capacity. “We are creating meaningful clinical training opportunities,” he said in a statement.��

On the veterinary side,��the��LMU-OPCVM Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program is structured as a three-year program emphasizing early clinical experience and a distributive clinical model.��The institution��also cited��planned partnerships, including with the Jacksonville Humane Society and Clay County Animal Services, to place students in community-based learning environments.����

“Bringing human and veterinary medicine together on one campus reinforces the importance of a One Health perspective��in��how we educate and serve,” McConnell said. “Orange Park allows us to extend that commitment into Florida in a meaningful and lasting way.”����

This article is based on information published by Lincoln Memorial University via PR Newswire on March 4, 2026, and on LMU’s DCOM at Orange Park program page.��

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