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College of Medicine opens at Bowling Green's Med Center

By Don Sergent, Bowling Green Daily News

It was hard to tell which looked more pristine, the gleaming new University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green campus building or the 30 fresh-faced students who make up the medical school's initial class. For the 300 or so people who turned out Thursday for a ribbon-cutting that opened the $28 million medical school building on Bowling Green's Med Center Health campus, it didn't matter. It was, as Commonwealth Health Corp. CEO Connie Smith and others said, simply "a remarkable day" that was the culmination of a partnership involving Med Center Health, the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University. Those three came together nearly two years ago to give birth to the idea of a medical college that would serve Bowling Green and southcentral Kentucky and address a growing need for physicians throughout the state.

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