KILGORE — Kilgore College is announced it has received a substantial donation for the naming rights of the new KC Health Science Education Center that will be completed in July and ready for health science classes for the fall semester.

A special ceremony announcing the donors and unveiling the name of the new facility will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, at the Health Science Education Center, located at 1610 S. Henderson Blvd. in Kilgore.

The KC Health Science Education Center will be the first-of-its-kind for a community college – located adjacent to a working hospital and emergency room – training health science students in nursing, physical therapy assistant and medical imaging programs.

CHRISTUS Good Shepherd, the Roy H. Laird Memorial Hospital Foundation, the City of Kilgore and KC collaborated on the development, to be called the Roy H. Laird Health Science Center.

The project will include new classrooms and state-of-the-art lab facilities for KC’s health science programs on the south side of the complex, as well as the expansion of CHRISTUS Good Shepherd’s footprint near the existing Emergency Center.