By Jorge Mercado Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences has signed a lease for a campus in San Luis Obispo.

Announced Aug. 14, the new campus will be located at 651 Tank Farm Road, the campus includes a 65,000-square-foot building and a parking structure for 400 vehicles. San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody previously leased the facility.

“The University will relocate its College for Healthy Communities (ATSU-CHC), which houses our Central Coast Physician Assistant (CCPA) program, from Santa Maria, California, to San Luis Obispo in summer 2026,” ATSU-CHC Dean Eric Sauers, PhD, said. “We remain strongly committed to the Santa Maria Valley and Santa Barbara County, where many of our students will continue to complete their clinical education. We are excited to extend our reach and impact through new program development made possible with this move, and will continue our focus on recruiting students from the Central Coast and educating them throughout the region.”

ATSU is a nonprofit university with campuses in Arizona, California, and Missouri. ATSU-CHC’s CCPA program is a 24-month master’s program with a goal of educating community-oriented physician assistants who will provide whole-person primary care to underserved communities along the Central Coast and across the nation.

“The new campus will allow ATSU to expand health professions degree offerings and assist with solving local workforce, patient care, and health professions education needs,” said O.T. Wendel, PhD, president of ATSU’s Arizona and California campuses.