OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received two grants worth nearly $1.6 million to help improve rural health care.

The Medical Center's Patricia Leuschen says these grants will allow the Nebraska facility to play a prominent role in promoting rural health care.

One grant worth $993,910 over five years will help pay for two national conferences for physician assistants in 2014 and 2016.

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