Patient Care

Health workforce report shows need in rural areas

Study was commissioned and funded by Office of Rural Health Initiatives and Nebraska Area Health Education Center Program.

Oct 6, 2020

Nizar Wehbi, MD, assistant professor and deputy director for the UNMC Center for Health Policy

Med center scientists, physicians make statement on COVID-19

Now is not the time to let down our guard, infectious disease experts stress.

Oct 6, 2020

Mark Rupp, MD, chief of the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases, was one of the med center experts who spoke at the Monday afternoon press conference.

Grant-funded COVID-19 registry to provide gold mine of information

UNMC will participate in national effort to collect and share data on COVID-19-related patient outcomes.

Oct 2, 2020

Matthew Rizzo, MD, Frances & Edgar Reynolds Chair and professor in the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences

MMI’s Gormley to aid provider-patient communication

Jessica Gormley, PhD, tapped to help in national effort led by Penn State.

Oct 1, 2020

Jessica Gormley, PhD

Paper suggests cause for COVID-19’s aftereffects in children

Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD, co-authored work on multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

Oct 1, 2020

Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD

Study aims to help teens control aggression

UNMC collaborating on $2.2 million grant to improve mental health in teens.

Sep 17, 2020

Soonjo Hwang, MD

Time out with T.O. – Surviving the Big C

Bill Penry’s positive attitude — plus ‘good doctoring’ — helped him beat cancer.

Sep 10, 2020

Bill Penry, at right, and son Casey (photo by Dimitry Konstantinov)

Changes to visitor documentation for inpatients

Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center clarify ‘alternate visitor.’

Sep 8, 2020

Resident program director of the month

Ruben Quiros, MD, is the resident director for pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric transplant hepatology.

Sep 4, 2020

Ruben Quiros, MD

Self-screening with UNMC app required before coming to campus

Screening should take place before arriving on campus and takes less than a minute to complete.

Sep 2, 2020

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