Newsroom
October workshops to focus on neighborhood issues
Finding solutions to neighborhood issues and creating a neighborhood center will be the focus of the Oct. 14-15 Destination Midtown workshops. The general public is invited to attend.
Sep 26, 2003
Shrike-Hlavac Memorial Trust aids UNMC
The UNMC Eppley Cancer Center has been chosen as the recipient of the 2003 distribution of the Shrike-Hlavac Memorial Trust. Money from the trust will go toward “seed money” for innovative research ideas.
Sep 26, 2003
AMA president-elect speaks at UNMC
Compensation for patients’ “pain and suffering” should be limited in medical malpractice cases, the president-elect of the American Medical Association said Wednesday.
Sep 26, 2003
UNMC College of Nursing installs wireless classroom
To facilitate the College of Nursing’s online testing needs, ITS helped develop a wireless classroom.
Sep 25, 2003
UNO hockey partners with Eppley Cancer Center
The puck will drop soon on a partnership between the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha hockey team, giving employees the opportunity to view great hockey while contributing to a new cancer research fund.
Sep 25, 2003
Faculty Women’s Club serves the campus
The Faculty Women’s Club Wednesday honored UNMC’s Barbara Harrison and Patti George for helping the group meet its goals. It also recognized seven student scholarship recipients.
Sep 25, 2003
Final College of Medicine dean candidate forum Sept. 25
Faculty, staff and students are invited Thursday to meet the final candidate for UNMC College of Medicine dean — David H. Chestnut, M.D., Alfred Habeeb professor and chair of anesthesiology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Sep 24, 2003
UNMC’s dental hygiene degree accessible in Scottsbluff/Gering
UNMC has expanded its dental hygiene program to Scottsbluff/Gering, thanks to a three-year, $221,690 grant from the Nebraska Health and Human Services System Nebraska Healthcare Cash Fund (tobacco settlement fund).
Sep 24, 2003
Sgt. Pratt’s death strikes home for emergency staff
The Omaha community mourns the loss of Omaha Police Sgt. Jason Pratt, but the death is especially difficult for the emergency room staff at UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center.
Sep 24, 2003
A HIPAA message — Workstation protections
HIPAA, the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,” provides federal protection of patient health information. As part of our continuing efforts to educate employees, these HIPAA-related messages will be distributed the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Today’s HIPAA message clarifies whether it’s OK to bring in software from home or download it from the Internet.
Sep 23, 2003