KEARNEY, Neb., May 14 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:

KEARNEY - The University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Kearney today formally celebrated the opening of the Douglas A. Kristensen Rural Health Education Complex in Kearney, the largest rural healthcare teaching facility in the country, and reaffirmed the university's commitment to strengthening Nebraska's healthcare workforce.

The $115 million complex expands UNMC's academic programs in Kearney and includes the new $95 million, 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.

"This is a historic ...