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Nebraska Area Health Education Centers
Nebraska AHEC Program Office
Location: UNMC campus in Omaha as part of the College of Medicine department of Family Medicine.
Director:Mike Sitorius, MD and Deputy Director: ___________
Phone: (402) 559-9509 Fax: (402) 559-5050
Central Nebraska AHEC (CN-AHEC)
Location: 3180 West Hwy 34
Grand Island, NE 68801
Executive Director: Sarah Cunningham
Phone: (308) 385-5074 Fax: (308) 385-6414
Northern Nebraska AHEC (NNAHEC)
Location: 110 N. 16th St, Ste 2
Nolfolk, NE 68701
Executive Director: Gretchen Forsell
Phone: (402) 644-7253 Fax: (402) 644-7254
Nebraska Panhandle AHEC (NP-AHEC)
Location: 2620 College Park
Scottsbluff, NE 69361
Executive Director: Gary Hastings
Phone: (308) 635-6713 Fax: (308) 635-6704
Southeast Nebraska AHEC (SE-AHEC)
Location: 5109 West Scott Road, #408
Adams Hall, Room A211
Beatrice, NE 68310
Executive Director: Robyn Henderson
Phone: (402) 228-9094 Fax: (402) 228-9095
Omaha AHEC (O-AHEC)
Location: 1823 Harney Street, #203
Omaha, NE 68102
Executive Director: Dell Gines
Phone: (402) 502-1478 Fax: (402) 502-3446
Students to health careers
Since 2001, Nebraska Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) have had over 74,000 contacts with students in grades kindergarten through college. Classroom presentations, career fairs, job shadowing programs, health career materials these are just a few of the ways the Nebraska AHECs are recruiting students to health careers in Nebraska.
Health professionals to communities
Since 2001, Nebraska AHECs have had over 1,000 contacts to increase student training opportunities in community-based settings and over 11,000 contacts to assist professionals with continuing education programs.
Communities to better health
Since 2001, Nebraska AHECs have provided more than $225,000 in small community grants to help over 300 organizations address health needs in their local areas.
Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
AHECs are created through community/state/Federal partnerships as a way in which medical schools and community health centers can cooperate to recruit and train health care professionals to serve in rural areas.
Nebraska AHEC Program Office / 986660 Nebraska Medical Center / Omaha, NE 68198-6660
Phone: 402.559.9509 / Fax: 402.559.5050
Funded in part through the Health Resources and Services Administration,
Bureau of Health Professions Federal Grant U76HP00592 | 
