Youngkin's proposed budget amendments includes plan to merge ODU, EVSM - News 3 WTKR Norfolk

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Posted at 2:14 PM, Dec 23, 2022

and past updated 2022-12-23 14:14:57-05

Governor Glenn Youngkin's projected fund amendments for the 2023-2024 biennium includes a program to merge 2 Hampton Roads schools into one.

Youngkin's fund includes a model and timeline to merge Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University.

Under his plan, EVMS would go the “Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center” astatine ODU. That merger would instrumentality spot nary aboriginal than the summertime of 2024.

Sentara Healthcare’s Executive Vice President of Governance and External Affairs, Aubrey Layne, said the pursuing astir the merger:

"As we look to the aboriginal of healthcare acquisition and training, we besides commend the politician for laying retired his imaginativeness for the merger between Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Old Dominion University (ODU). We look guardant to moving with the politician and continuing to beryllium a supportive spouse arsenic this merger unfolds.”

Aubrey Layne

Youngkin's fund connection inactive needs to beryllium approved by the wide assembly.

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