Home Instead Center fast facts
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An artist’s rendering of the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging.
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Here are some quick facts about the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging, which UNMC broke ground on Wednesday:
Located at the corner of 38th Avenue and Leavenworth Streets.
The three-story building will have 30,038 square feet and is funded by $10.2 million in private donations. Construction is expected to be complete by spring of 2010.
Entrance to the medicine and psychiatry clinics will be on the north side, where there will be a parking lot. Patients and visitors will only have to walk a few steps to get into the building.
A separate west entrance, at the lower level, provides access to the Wellness Center-
Community Education and Outreach area. Academic and faculty offices will be on the upper level floor.
The Wellness Center-Community Education and Outreach area will house a fully equipped fitness and exercise area and a multi-purpose room for public and professional education.
Eight exam rooms in the geriatric medicine clinic located on the main level.
Ten exam rooms in the geriatric psychiatry clinic located on the main level. The offices for faculty/fellows and nurse practitioners also will be located here.
Some of the outpatient procedures that will be done in the center include gait and cognitive evaluation.
More online
To see more about the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging, visit
www.unmc.edu/successfulaging . Also check UNMC Today on Friday for a special UNMC in 3 from Wednesday’s groundbreaking.
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Patient and caregiver education facilities will be located on the lower level.
In addition to regular weekday hours, the Wellness Center-Community Education and Outreach area also will have weekend and early evening hours.
The new center will create physical space for both the sections of geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry, while expanding research and patient care, improving education infrastructure and providing outreach facilities to enhance successful aging. Currently, there are six geriatric physicians, five geriatric psychiatrists and one geriatric psychologist on faculty at UNMC.
The center will increase clinical and translational research by establishing an environment that will make it much more conducive for clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease and other geriatric-specific disorders.
Gerontology and geriatric medicine have been part of the UNMC medical school curriculum since 1981. Training in geriatrics has been mandatory for internal medicine and family medicine residents for more than 20 years.