Missouri Senator Roy Blunt visits the UMKC School of Medicine’s St. Joseph Location / Photo: Whitnee Ice
By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
A $7 million federal grant allowed the University of Missouri-Kansas City to expand its campus to St. Joseph.
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt visited the new UMKC Medical School Campus in St. Joseph yesterday afternoon to observe how the grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration grant has been used.
Blunt started the Medical Student Education program in 2019. The program funding was doubled in 2020 to the amount of $50 million.
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt discusses the UMKC program with local officials, students and staff / Photo: Whitnee Ice