Nebraska Medical Center is the state’s largest hospital, with an international reputation for breakthroughs in cancer care, organ transplant and infectious diseases. The academic medical center is led by more than 1,000 physicians and serves as the major teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Home to the National Cancer Institute-designated Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medical Center recently marked 10 years of CAR-T cell therapy. Among the nation’s first to offer the treatment, its experts advanced CAR-T applications to conditions including lupus and multiple sclerosis. Federal health leaders called on the Nebraska biocontainment unit and national quarantine unit at the university medical center to monitor U.S. citizens who were aboard a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, just one of several times the unit has been called upon for biocontainment and quarantine. The hospital is an American College of Surgeons-verified level 1 trauma center, and the only Joint Commission-certified comprehensive stroke center in the region. It has held Magnet nursing excellence recognition since 2008 and has been named U.S. News & World Report‘s best hospital in Nebraska for 15 consecutive years. Nebraska Medical Center is the flagship facility for Nebraska Medicine, a $3 billion, 10,500-employee, health system that operates two hospitals and more than 70 specialty and primary care clinics, seeing approximately one million annual outpatient visits.
