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New guidance on travel provided for UNMC

Guidance on domestic travel has shifted.

May 22, 2020

Student’s Guard service has him on COVID front lines

Lt. Nathan Harms, a UNMC medical student, is deployed as part of the state’s testing efforts.

May 21, 2020

First Lieutenant Nathan Harms

PA students lift spirits for nursing home residents

Window mural outreach effort aims at ‘spreading joy.’

May 21, 2020

PA student Josephine Ngo paints a window at St. Joseph's Villa nursing and rehab center in Omaha.

Questions with Chancellor Gold

Do you envision the ‘Healthcare Heroes’ program at UNO to continue in the future?

May 21, 2020

Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., chancellor of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Foundation award will enhance rural pandemic preparedness

Funding aims to improve pandemic response in rural nursing facilities and critical access centers.

May 21, 2020

Matthew Beacom, M.D.

Foundation Funding to Improve Pandemic Response in Rural Nursing Facilities

The Nebraska Health Care Foundation has been awarded $250,000 from the Donald E. Nielsen Foundation.

May 21, 2020

Whom Do You Appreciate?

Amrita Vuppala, MD, wrote this blog about the importance of appreciation.

May 21, 2020

Amrita Vuppala, MD, neuro-ophthalmologist

Nebraska Medicine adapts universal PPE policy

New policy includes eyewear guidance.

May 21, 2020

Nurse supervisor Olivia Jensen is seen wearing goggles over her eye glasses. Goggles help protect against bloodborne or chemical exposure and can be used on non-COVID units.

Chancellor offers thanks, speaks of challenges

During town hall, Dr. Gold also emphasized that safety will drive all return-to-campus decision-making.

May 20, 2020

Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., chancellor of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Two clinical trial patients recount their brush with COVID19

May 20 is Clinical Trials Day.

May 20, 2020