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Accessing eldercare services event for employees Dec. 7
More than 25 percent of American families are involved in some way with elder/parent care. Many of them also are juggling full-time job responsibilities. The challenges of this can be overwhelming.
UNMC employees can learn more about caring for elderly parents, relatives and friends and the coordinated services available at UNMC, University Medical Associates (UMA) and The Nebraska Medical Center at an eldercare event on Tuesday, Dec. 7 in the Eppley Science Hall.
Nov 23, 2004
To do no harm: protecting patients with CLAS
The basic cornerstone of the health care profession is “to do no harm.” However, because of the phenomenal growth in the number of people who have settled in Nebraska who have limited English proficiency (LEP), health care providers are challenged to provide safe, effective, and linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
Nov 22, 2004
Radiation science students host school games
Jim Temme, associate director of UNMC’s Radiation Science Technology Division, never could say no to his daughter. So when Abby McGinnis, a kindergarten teacher at Miller Park Elementary School in North Omaha, asked if Temme could round up a few volunteers to help out at the school’s first carnival on Nov. 4, he said no problem.
Nov 19, 2004
Changes to gross anatomy lab benefits students
Jon Henning and four other medical students huddle around the waist-high table of their cadaver in search of the brachiocephalic vein. In the past, they would have flipped through a chunky anatomy atlas to find the vessel. Now, guiding their dissection is a 50-inch screen that projects the precise location of the vein in the upper chest. Discover the new world inside UNMC’s gross anatomy course.
Nov 18, 2004
HIV clinic staff says message changes, but not mission
The fundamental reality for HIV/AIDS health providers, social workers, prevention specialists and patients and families of persons living with the disease can be summed up in a single word: change. That is why, in 1998, UNMC’s HIV Clinic staff began its annual “Update for HIV Care Providers and Educators.”
Nov 17, 2004
Project Meant to Slow Emile Street Traffic
In an effort to slow traffic on Emile Street, two speed tables will be installed. The construction project will begin the week of Nov. 15 and should take from four to six weeks to complete.
The speed tables will be located adjacent to the Lot 50 parking structure entrance and just to the east of The Lied Transplant Center.
Nov 17, 2004
Dr. Fleisher receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award
After the storms pass, Mark Fleisher, M.D., emerges from behind his office door and sees rainbows. An associate professor in UNMC’s Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Fleisher helps patients with developmental disabilities and mental retardation regain a sense of normalcy in their lives.
Nov 16, 2004
To find out this month’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Silver ‘U’ Award click on Reward and Recognition (the left hand side of UNMC Today) and scroll to the Silver ‘U’ section.
Nov 16, 2004
Reminder the 2004 Employee satisfaction Surveys Ends 11/19/04
Employees who have not yet turned in their 2004 Employee Satisfaction Surveys can still do so. All surveys are to be turned in by Friday, Nov. 19.
Employees with Lotus Notes e-mail addresses should have received an e-mail from Career Design, Inc., explaining the confidential survey. Please do not delete the e-mail return address of info@careerdesigninc.com.
Nov 16, 2004
Dr. Paul Sammut Honored for Cystic Fibrosis Research
Paul Sammut, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was among four individuals honored as “Omaha’s Finest” at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s annual event Nov. 5.
Dr. Sammut has worked extensively in the areas of cystic fibrosis treatment and research at UNMC for the past 16 years.
Nov 16, 2004