The state has awarded UNLV’s medical school $70 million in American Rescue Plan funds to expand its medical footprint in the Las Vegas valley.

An ambulatory care clinic will be built at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine in the Las Vegas Medical District.

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV has been awarded $70 million to build a new ambulatory care clinic and pathology lab on the medical school's campus.

It's $125 million of cutting-edge medical education that could put Las Vegas on the medical map.

Hello from the medical district, the headquarters of our medical community. Located here is the new Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, one way we're trying to bring in more doctors.

Southern Nevada has an opportunity to dispel the notion that the best health care in the region can be found by boarding a jet at Harry Reid International Airport, according to panelists discussing the state of health care in the region.

Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen will present on Tuesday a bipartisan law aimed at solving the shortage of doctors in the country, locating more medical homes funded by the federal government in the areas most in need.

Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and John Boozman (R-AR) introduced the bipartisan Physicians for Underserved Areas Act to help address the nationwide physician shortage by updating the Graduate Medical Education (GME) slot process following a hospital closure to prioritize sending federally-funded medical residency slots to areas where doctors are most needed.