{"id":132187,"date":"2026-05-14T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=132187"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:05:04","slug":"ceremony-today-to-celebrate-unmcs-expansion-in-kearney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/05\/14\/ceremony-today-to-celebrate-unmcs-expansion-in-kearney\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony today to celebrate UNMC’s expansion in Kearney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Kearney will celebrate the opening of the Douglas A. Kristensen Rural Health Education Complex in Kearney, the largest rural healthcare teaching facility in the country. The $115 million complex expands UNMC\u2019s academic footprint in Kearney and includes the new three-story, 110,000-square-foot Health Science Education Center II, which opened in January, along with the original Health Science Education Center I that opened in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed to strengthen Nebraska\u2019s healthcare workforce, the complex enables UNMC to bring medicine, pharmacy and public health programs to Kearney for the first time, while expanding programs in allied health and nursing. At the request of the lead donor, the William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation, the complex was named in honor of UNK Chancellor Emeritus Doug Kristensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grand opening celebration will be held today (May 14) at 1:30 p.m. at the Douglas A. Kristensen Rural Health Science Education Complex on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarks will be made by the following individuals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n