The Nebraska Medical Center

Heart and Vascular Service Line The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) provides a wide range of cardiovascular services from diet counseling to surgical procedures and rehabilitation to patients from the surrounding region. TNMC has grown into one of the busiest centers in the country for ventricular assist device operations. TNMC has been successful in recruiting physicians and has the only heart failure specialist in the region, and the only heart failure program certified by the joint commission in the State of Nebraska. In 2016, TNMC began a lung transplant program, and in December 2017, TNMC performed the state's first heart and lung transplant. In the year ended June 30, 2024, TNMC performed 11 lung transplants. The congestive heart failure program and acute myocardial infarction program each received the gold seal of approval certification from the American Heart Association. This program is certified by the joint commission, and these services are the only nationally certified programs of their kind in the State of Nebraska. The chest pain center has received full chest pain center accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. TNMC has been recognized for service excellence under the J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Program. TNMC has the only joint commission certified destination therapy program in the state and is the only hospital in the region performing adult heart transplants and implanting total artificial hearts. In the year ended June 30, 2024, 850 open heart surgeries were performed, including 38 heart transplants.

Neurological Sciences Service Line The core services include precise diagnosis and treatment of stroke and vascular disease, movement and memory disorders, multiple sclerosis, brain and spinal tumors, spine as well as epilepsy. The epilepsy center is the only level four center in the region and treats patients from the State of Nebraska and surrounding region. The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) has one of the few magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanners and trained MEG scientists in the region. The MEG can detect brain activity in much greater detail and with more accuracy than previous methods and advances patient care and research opportunities. In July 2018, TNMC opened the Twin Creek Health Center, a dedicated neurological sciences ambulatory clinic in Bellevue, NE. TNMC has earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award. Get with the Guidelines is a hospital-based, quality-improvement program designed to ensure hospitals consistently care for cardiac and stroke patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations. TNMC also hosts the only young adult stroke support group to address the emotion and physical challenges of recovering from stroke.

Fy24 with a history dating back to 1869, tnmc was formed with the merging of bishop clarkson memorial hospital and university hospital. In july 2016, unmc physicians outpatient clinics became part of the organization. Tnmc continues to attract patients from the region and around the world. Tnmc is a tertiary/quaternary academic medical center. It is the largest health care facility in the state with more than 10,000 employees and over 1,400 physicians practicing in all major specialties and sub-specialties. In addtion to key services in cardiology, oncology, transplant and neurology, tnmc offers comprehensive care in women's services for obstetrics and gynecology, as well as pediatric services, orthopedics, rheumatology, and pulmonary care. In addition, tnmc has one of the region's largest hyperbaric medicine programs. Tnmc is the most esteemed academic health systems in the region, with 809 licensed beds at its two hospitals, nebraska medical center and bellevue medical center. Tnmc also operates 40 specialty and primary care clinics in omaha and surrounding areas. Tnmc has one of the few biocontainment units in the united states equipped to safely care for people exposed to highly contagious, dangerous diseases. In 2014, the nebraska biocontainment unit was activated to provide care for three americans who contracted the ebola virus during the west africa outbreak. This response resulted in tnmc and unmc becoming one of three designated ebola treatment and education centers in the united states. Throughout the last decade, biocontainment unit staff have continued to educate public health and infectious disease teams from around the world about safe protocols and responses to infectious diseases, most recently covid-19. Tnmc was one of the first to care for exposed and infected americans in early 2020 and continues to be a world leader in treating and mitigating the virus. The organization continues to strive toward its mission to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care. Highlights from the fiscal year included - continued construction of the fred & pamela buffett cancer center - kearney with plans to open in december of 2024. - announcement and start of construction on a new outpatient clinic in the omaha suburb of bennington, nebraska. - continued construction of the innovation design unit (idu). When opened in january 2025, the idu will be an active patient care unit with a physical and philisophical connection to academic research and health care innovation. The unit will inform the future of inpatient care in the new project health hospital which is projected to begin work in the near future. - expanding the number and scope of employee resource groups - ribbon cutting of the community wellness collaborative, in partnership with unmc, that serves the north omaha community with health education and resources - opening of a fourth clinical building at village pointe health center in west omaha, increasing services and access for patients - opening of the student health clinic on the unmc omaha campus to provide student health services - launched a new employment brand promise, "together. Extraordinary," which was a refresh of the previous "be extraordinary" brand promise, to promote retention and hiring of colleagues in fy24, nebraska medical center earned the following: - us news & world report best hospital in the state - us news & world report rated cancer, gastroentrology, gi surgery, and orthopaedics as high performing specialties - us news & world report rated nebraska medicine as high performing for the following conditions and disease treatments: *aortic valve surgery *colon cancer surgery *diabetes *heart attack *heart failure *kidney failure *knee replacement *leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma *ovarian cancer surgery *pneumonia *prostate cancer surgery *uterine cancer surgery - newsweek rated nebraska medical center one of the nation's best hospitals and best maternity hospitals - nebraska medical center and bellevue medical center earned healthgrades' patient safety excellence award - bellevue medical center earned an 'a' grade from leapfrog, and the bernard a. Birnbaum, md, quality leadership top performer award from vizient - nebraska medicine was named to the forbes best-in-state employers list - becker's hospital review listed nebraska medcine as one of the top 150 places to work in health care - the national safety council named nebraska medicine one of nebraska's safest companies for the 16th straight year - nebraska medicine again earned magnet designation for nursing excellence, maintaining that recognition for more than 15 years

Digestive Disease and Kidney Service Line The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) operates one of the busiest solid organ transplant programs in the world. In 2016, TNMC joined a small number of transplant centers which have programs for transplants of all solid organs. TNMC's lung transplant program did its first transplant in February 2016. In the year ended June 30, 2024, TNMC performed 364 solid organ transplants including liver, kidney, heart, lung, pancreas, and small bowel. The success of TNMC's solid organ transplant program is heightened by research done on the TNMC/University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campuses. Since its inception, patients have come to TNMC for single or multiple organ transplants from all fifty states and five continents.