UNMC for the record

Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.

Larry Hewitt will retire next Friday after more than 20 years in College of Nursing Student Services.

Larry Hewitt, director of student services in the College of Nursing, will retire next Friday after 20 years at UNMC. A retirement reception will be held for Hewitt that day at 1 p.m. in the College of Nursing, Room 2018.

Chuck Kasson, a UNMC Physical Therapy student, won the heavyweight division of the North American Highlander Competition last weekend. The competition was a strength contest similar to the World’s Strongest Man, in which Kasson and other competitors flipped tires, lifted logs and moved other objects that weighed hundreds of pounds.

Midwest Regional Health Services (MRHS) — one of the first Nebraska medical practices to embrace the concept of the patient-centered medical home — has been recognized as a Level Three Patient Centered Medical Home by The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). MRHS — which has locations at UNMC’s hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, and at Clarkson West Medical Center — is the first in the state to achieve this distinction, which is the highest in the organization’s rating scale.

The Nebraska Medical Center has earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award for the second year in a row. Get With The Guidelines is a hospital-based quality-improvement program designed to ensure hospitals consistently care for cardiac and stroke patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations.