Facilities

Main Campus Facilities

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College office hours for most offices are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Administration Building
The Administration Building houses major administrative offices, including the Provost’s Office, Academic Affairs, Admissions, Human Resources, Business Affairs, Marketing & Communication.

The Advancement Office
Located at 708 Brady Street.

B.J. Palmer Hall
Classrooms P201, P202, P204, P205 and P206 are high-tech elevated classrooms and are located on the second floor.

Bruce & Bethel Hagen Student Union
The Hagen Student Union is open Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. to midnight and Saturday and Sunday from 6 a.m. to midnight.

Campus Center
This building houses the Palmer Cafe and Hagen Student Union on the lower levels. The Campus Store is located on the second level. The offices of Student Services, Financial Planning, Student Administrative Services, Registrar’s Office, Student Affairs, Compliance, Continuing Education and Events, and Institutional Compliance Office are also located in this building.

Computer Labs
Computer labs are open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and are closed on Saturday and Sunday:

• The D.D. Palmer Memorial Building 202
• Campus Center

Library computers are available during regular Library hours. Labs are closed during posted class hours; hours vary each trimester.

David D. Palmer Health Sciences Library
The David D. Palmer Health Sciences Library is the most comprehensive library of any chiropractic school, with nearly 50,000 volumes of scientific and biomedical journals and texts. It serves as an important health-science resource for the state of Iowa. The Library also houses the most extensive chiropractic archives in the world.

David D. Palmer Learning Commons
The David D. Palmer Learning Commons is a 22,000 sq. ft. student learning space that encompasses the David D. Palmer Health Sciences Library, the Evan & Cynthia Beane Learning Lab where students hone their technique, more than 75 enclosed group and individual study spaces, Dave’s Coffee Corner, and a monumental staircase inspired by spinal anatomy.

D.D. Palmer Memorial Building
The D.D. Palmer Memorial Building houses classrooms, Academic Radiology, dissection laboratory classrooms, M201 and M203, and computer lab M202.

Harold & Marie Bechtel Center
The Welcome Center and the Davenport Outpatient Chiropractic Clinic are located on the first floor. The Outpatient Clinic also continues on the lower level. The lower level contains two radiology suites and the Chiropractic Rehabilitation & Sports Injury Department. The second floor houses the Trevor V. Ireland Student Clinic and radiology review room.

Mabel H. Palmer Hall
This building contains the Palmer College Archives, Radiographic Quality Lab and classrooms.

North Hall
Located on the north end of campus, this building houses the Information Technology Department.

Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research
Located in the William and Jo Harris Building, this modern facility is the center of research at Palmer College. It houses a research clinic and imaging center. Graduate Studies classes also are held here.

Palmer Outpatient Chiropractic Clinic
The Davenport Outpatient Chiropractic Clinic occupies the first two floors of the Bechtel Center. Palmer also has an outpatient clinic located in Moline, Illinois.

Palmer Family Residence
The former home of B.J. and Mabel Palmer is adjacent to D.D. Palmer Hall. The historic residence is open for tours by appointment.

R. Richard Bittner Athletic & Recreation Center
The R. Richard Bittner Athletic & Recreation Center is a state-of-the-art athletic and recreation facility. The facility includes more than 46,000 square feet of space with two basketball courts, two strength areas, thirty pieces of cardio equipment, functional training areas, an outdoor workout area, two group fitness rooms and leisure space. The facility is open to all students, employees and immediate family members over the age of 16.

Vickie Anne Palmer Hall
The Palmer Family and Chiropractic History Museum displays are located on the main levels of Vickie Anne Palmer Hall. Graduation is also held here.

West Hall
The student lounge, technique rooms, computer labs, instrumentation rooms, faculty offices and classrooms are also located in this building. This building houses the following departments: Academic Support Services, Campus Security, Center for Teaching and Learning, Facilities Department, Technique Department faculty offices, Undergraduate Studies, the Print Center and the Vets Club.

William A. & Mary J. Kiernan Hall (Anatomy & Technique Center)
The William J. & Mary A. Kiernan Hall – Anatomy & Technique Center, which opened in spring 2022, allows students to move seamlessly between Palmer’s anatomy classrooms, wet and dry labs, and technique classrooms. It features five technique labs with 20 stations for hands-on work, and two new anatomy labs.

Handicap Accessibility

Administration Building
An elevator is located in the southeast corner of the building, which provides access to all levels of the Administration Building. There is a ramp at the southeast entrance of the building that has a special-needs door opener. There are handicapped-accessible restrooms on the lower level, first, second and third floors.

B.J. Palmer Hall
An elevator on the northeast side of the building allows access to all three levels. Two ramps allow access to the clinic building. One is by the northeast door of that wing. The other ramp is located right outside the north door leading to the gardens. There are handicapped-accessible restrooms on the first and second floors.

Campus Center
The Campus Center has an elevator on the northwest side of the building. Enter on the main level or through the skywalk over Brady Street from the clinic/administration area.

William J. & Mary A. Kiernan Hall (Anatomy & Technique Center)
An elevator on the north side of the building provides access to all floors. There are ramps on the northwest and south sides of the building, between the Library and West Hall. The first, second and third floors have handicapped-accessible restrooms.

Harold & Marie Bechtel Center
An elevator on the east side of the building gives access to all floors. There’s also access to an elevator from the Welcome Center, located on the north side of the building. There are handicapped-accessible restrooms on all three floors of the building.

North Hall
Enter North Hall through the west (Brady Street) front door. There is a handicapped-accessible restroom to the left, immediately inside the Brady Street entrance.

Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research
Enter the building from the parking lot and continue to the elevator located in the alcove of the first floor. All three floors have handicapped-accessible restrooms.

Vickie Anne Palmer Hall
Enter Vickie Anne Palmer Hall through the west front door. It allows access from the lower level to the third floor. There’s a ramp on the northeast side of the building.

West Hall
An elevator on the west side in the middle of the building provides access to all four floors. A ramp leads into West Hall on the north side of the building, between the Library and West Hall. There’s another ramp at the north door of the southeast end of the building. There’s a handicapped-accessible restroom on the third floor.

West Hall Courtyard
This outside area has ramps to Friendship Court, Experiential Learning Center area and West Hall.

Florida Campus Facilities

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College office hours for most offices are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Buildings are open Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Departments can be found in the following rooms:

Administration Building, Building One
4777 City Center Parkway

First Floor

• Exam Lab – Room 1111
• Facilities – Room 1114
• Financial Planning- Room 1103
• Mail Room – Room 1115
• Mother’s Lounge – Room 1110
• Radiology – Room 1112
• Registrar and Business Office – Room 1103
• Student Administrative Services
• Student Services (Academic Counseling and Disability Services) – Room 1103
• Technique – Room 1106
• Technique Labs -1107, 1109
• Testing Center – Room 1104
• ID Badging – Room 1108

Second Floor

• Admissions – Room 1204
• Foot Levelers – Room 1203
• Lecture – Rooms 1207, 1209
• Ancillary Lab – Room 1203
• Marketing & Communication – Room 1204

Academic Building, Building Two
4777 City Center Parkway

First Floor

• Library – Room 2123
• Anatomy Lab (“Dissection”) – Room 2177
• Dry Lab – Room 2175
• Faculty Offices – Room 2170
• Lecture – Room 1271
• Multi-Purpose Classroom – Room 2125

Second Floor

• Administration – Room 2220
• Academic Affairs – Room 2220
• Human Resources – Room 2220
• Marketing & Communication – Room 2220
• Information Services – Room 2265
• Technique Lab – Room 2223
• Exam Lab – Room 2277
• Radiology – Room 2275
• Lecture – Rooms 2273, 2271, 2225
• Faculty Offices – Room 2270
• Print Center – Room 2231

Academic Building, Building Three

• Campus Bookstore
• Large Meeting Room
• Monte’s Café

Academic Building, Building Four First Floor

• Anatomy Lab (“Dissection”)
• Dry Lab – Rooms 4121, 4122
• Lecture – Rooms 4140, 4141-4140-A, 4141-A
• Lecture – Rooms 4240, 4241, 4240-A, 4241-A
• Technique – Rooms 4212, 4213, 4250, 4251
• PAC Lab – Rooms 4220, 4220-A

Palmer Chiropractic Clinics
4705 S. Clyde Morris Boulevard

• Campus Health Center – 2nd Floor
• Clinical Services
• Outpatient Clinic – 1st Floor

Handicap Accessibility

The Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, main campus academic buildings and the Outreach Clinic are handicapped accessible.

West Campus Facilities

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College office hours for most offices are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The building is open from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday and from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday. On weekends the building is open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Only the south door (back entrance) is unlocked on the weekends. Club meetings in the evening must conclude by 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Clinics
Palmer College of Chiropractic, West campus, maintains a campus-based clinic at 90 E. Tasman Drive, 408-944-6100. The Tasman Clinic is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Clinic is closed on College holidays but remains open during summer break and winter recess.

The campus also maintains several satellite clinics in San Jose: the Salvation Army Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, the Ecumenical Association of Housing and two Emergency Housing Consortium facilities.

Students, their spouses, significant others and children qualify for services at the Clinic. Examinations and office visits are offered at no charge; lab work and X-ray services are offered at a discount.

David D. Palmer Health Sciences Library
The Library is located on the second floor and is open from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Departments can be found in the following rooms:

Department	Room
Academic Administration Room	Room 307
Compliance	Room 309/403J
Admissions	Room 204
Alumni	Room 304
Bookstore	Room 211
Business Office	Room 232
Cafeteria	Room 251
Clinic	Room 102
Copy Center	Room 240
Facilities/Emergency Operation	Room 241
Financial Planning	Room 204
Human Resources	Room 302
Information services	Room 233
Library	Room 347
Mailroom	Room 245
Marketing & Communication	Room 315
President’s Office	Room 311
Radiology	Room 167
Registrar	Room 210
Research	Room 317
Security	Room 237
Student Affairs	Room 130
Support Services	Room 204

 

Classes will be held at the following address:
90 E. Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134

Handicap Accessibility

The Campus is handicapped accessible.