Person wearing personal protective equipment holding their hands up and forming the letters L and V to represent Las Vegas
Mar. 19, 2021

We’re feeling better already. The state’s investment in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is paying dividends. Its team of faculty, doctors, and students were instrumental in:

  • administering COVID testing and vaccines
  • providing patient care at 14 specialty clinics
  • delivering more than 5,000 babies
  • performing 52,000 surgeries
  • receiving more than 180,000 hospital visits

UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine is doing its part to heal the local economy by generating an estimated 8,000 new jobs and creating an impact of $1.2 billion by 2030.