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NUFLEX 2006 enrollment is just around the corner
Your NUFlex 2006 re-enrollment packets will begin arriving in your departmental mail on Monday, Nov. 14. The enrollment period is from Nov. 14 through Dec. 2, only; changes will be effective on Jan. 1. Click for more details.
Nov 8, 2005
Allied Health celebrates professions week
The UNMC School of Allied Health Professions is celebrating Allied Health Professions Week, which runs through Saturday. A display table will be set up in the central atrium on Tuesday, Nov. 8, with allied health information.
Nov 7, 2005
UNMC participates in emergency response exercise
UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center were among those involved in Thursday’s statewide exercise to test Nebraska’s readiness to respond to a public health emergency.
Nov 7, 2005
Web-based system helps prevent, treat disease
Preventing and treating disease outbreaks in Nebraska is faster and more efficient with a new Internet-based laboratory order and reporting system, known as the Electronic Laboratory Information and Retrieval Technology (ELIRT).
Nov 4, 2005
Inside the Newborn Intensive Care Unit
Ava Saunders was supposed to become a big sister last month. Her brother had other plans. Griffin was born in July — 13 weeks early and weighing only 2 lbs. 2 oz. He spent 79 days in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) at The Nebraska Medical Center before going home. On Nov. 16, the hospital’s tiniest patients will move into the new NICU in the Hixson-Lied Center for Clinical Excellence.
Nov 4, 2005
Health screenings at Clarkson West Nov. 5
The University Medical Associates, UNMC’s physician group practice, invites the public to its free “Winter Health Tune Up,” event Saturday, Nov. 5, from 9 to 11 a.m., at its location in the Clarkson West Medical Center building at 144th and Center streets near Oak View Mall.
Nov 3, 2005
Inside the radiology department
It takes only five heartbeats to capture an image of a beating heart, one second to capture the image of an organ and only 10 seconds for a full body trauma. Such state-of-the-art imaging capabilities exist in the Hixson-Lied Center for Clinical Excellence’s new radiology unit.
Nov 3, 2005
Influenza vaccination information
Mark Rupp, M.D., medical director, Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, shares information to help health care workers decide whether or not to accept vaccination against influenza.
Nov 3, 2005
Families spend autumn day at Joslyn
More than 100 UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center employees, students and their families recently visited the Joslyn Art Museum on a near-perfect autumn day.
Nov 2, 2005
The new surgical suites inside the Hixson-Lied Center for Clinical Excellence are designed for any kind of procedure from large, open transplant surgery to minimally invasive operations. The operating rooms will open in three stages, with the first 15 rooms coming on line in January.
Nov 2, 2005