Patient Care

DHHS Medicaid Program receives federal approval to cover behavioral modification

Courtney Phillips, CEO of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the state’s Medicaid program has received federal approval to cover behavioral modification services to support the needs children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental services, and their families.

Apr 11, 2016

Exterior signage placed on Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

Two large 8,000-lb. signs placed on north, south sides of building

Apr 4, 2016

Workers put the sign on the south side of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center into place.

Excellence in Education: UNL students design possible UNMC facility

Some Interior Design and Architecture students at UNL could be seeing their hard work come to life. They’re working with UNMC on a new facility.

Jan 25, 2016

Funding from the Meyer Foundation for Disabilities

MFD is not a service-provider. Rather, we raise and administer funds that pay for services provided by our community partners, including the Munroe-Meyer Institute at UNMC. Here are the services recently funded by MFD.

Jan 18, 2016

Clinical Exchange Students Learn and Make Friends

Six students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine reflect on their 12 weeks at UNMC.

Dec 29, 2015

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine exchange students. Back from the left: Hongli Liu, Gerald Moore, M.D., Jialin Zheng, M.D., Chengbei Zhou, Ziyong Hao. Front from the left: Xiaowen Tan, Yineng Yu, Ye Xu.

$5 million Korff estate gift to advance prostate cancer research, treatments

Will be used to recruit top urology cancer specialists, obtain state-of-the-art equipment

Nov 18, 2015

Glenn Korff

Scotts’ latest donation takes aim at inflammatory bowel disease

Will create IBD Center, allow UNMC to hire world-class physicians, researchers

Nov 12, 2015

Bill and Ruth Scott

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine launches Mind and Brain Health Labs

Driving simulation/mobile sensor systems will revolutionize neurosciences in Nebraska

Nov 2, 2015

Marv Welstead, a 94-year-old Fremont, Neb. man, drives the SENSEI simulator.