Nebraska Medicine (formerly, The Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Health System), is a private not-for-profit

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healthcare company based in

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. The company was created as Nebraska Health System (NHS) in 1997, when Bishop Clarkson Hospital merged with the adjacent University Hospital in

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. Renamed The Nebraska Medical Center in 2003, in 2014 the company merged with UNMC Physicians and

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to become Nebraska Medicine. The company has full ownership of two hospitals and 39 specialty and

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clinics in and around Omaha, with partial ownership in two rural hospitals and a specialty hospital. Nebraska Medicine's main campus, Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center, has 718 beds, while its

campus has 91 beds. The company operates the largest of only four dedicated

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units in the United States, and is particularly recognized for programs in fields such as

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surgery,

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treatment, and

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. Ranked the No. 1 hospital in Nebraska and in Omaha by '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2019, the publication also ranked Nebraska Medicine No. 35 in the United States for cancer and the best hospital in Nebraska. Nebraska Medicine operates as an independent clinical partner of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

History

1869–1996: Nebraska Health System

Nebraska Medicine's predecessor company, Nebraska Health System (NHS), was formed in 1997 through the merger of Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital and

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. Adjacent to the

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's medical campus in

; both founding entities had been active in Nebraska for some time. Clarkson Hospital had been founded in 1869 and University Hospital in 1917, making Nebraska Health System the oldest healthcare organization in the state of

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. In 1998, Nebraska Health System opened the Lied Transplant Center on its Omaha campus.

2003–2013: The Nebraska Medical Center

Nebraska Health System was renamed The Nebraska Medical Center in 2003, with the adjacent

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(UNMC) remaining its primary clinical partner. UNMC had been founded in 1881 as the Omaha Medical College before associating with the

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. In 2005, The Nebraska Medical Center opened the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) as a collaboration with UNMC, also opening the Hixson-Lied Center on the Omaha campus. The Nebraska Medical Center's nearby Village Pointe Cancer Center opened in 2008. Nebraska Medicine was named one of the best hospitals in ''U.S. News & World Report''’s 2008 publication for Cancer and Neurology & Neurosurgery. In 2010, The Nebraska Medical Center opened

, a secondary hospital in nearby

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, Sarpy County. The following year, the company began to implement a new $87 million

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system.

2014–2016: Nebraska Medicine

In October 2014, it was announced that The Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians would begin operating under Nebraska Medicine as one entity. UNMC Physicians, a clinical group formed in 1971, brought 39 ambulatory clinics and a physician's practice into Nebraska Medicine. The hospitals and clinics within the Nebraska Medicine network were also renamed, as Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medicine – Bellevue, Nebraska Medicine – Village Pointe, Nebraska Medicine – Eagle Run, and others. UNMC remained independent, but changed its branding to reflect the new Nebraska Medicine logo. On March 23, 2015, Rosanna Morris was named interim CEO of Nebraska Medicine and Bradley Britigan was made interim president. Daniel DeBehnke succeeded as CEO and president in May 2016. In 2016, Nebraska Medicine finished an expansion of its Village Pointe location, expanding on an

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center and clinics. Nebraska Medicine paid $130 million in January 2016 to fully purchase Bellevue Medical Center, which it had previously been leasing. At the time, Nebraska Medicine also was partial owner of the Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital in Omaha. In February 2016, Nebraska Medicine reached Stage 7 on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) developed by HIMSS Analytics. In 2016, Nebraska Medicine finished an expansion of its Village Pointe location, expanding on an

center and clinics. After physicians at Internal Medical Associates requested the merge, in July 2016, Nebraska Medicine assumed operations of Internal Medical Associates in

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2017–2019: Recent developments

In January 2017, Nebraska Medicine announced that it would open Chalco Health Center in Chalco, as a primary care clinic and its fourth immediate care location, at which point it had around 40 clinic locations. That May, Nebraska Medicine opened the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, a partly public partnership with various state and county investors. In September 2017, Nebraska Medicine closed its

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due to reduced patient volume. Opened in 1995, the unit had treated 100 burn patients annually. In August 2018,

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was appointed CEO. Nebraska Medicine and UNMC sent a team of infectious disease experts to

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in September 2018 to train local healthcare workers. At that time, Nebraska Medicine was also "working with several Nebraska hospitals to help implement electronic medical records." Nebraska Medicine had previously provided regional laboratory services to local hospitals, since 1998, also maintaining related records. In 2018, the Nebraska Medicine network had 809 licensed beds. In 2018, Elkhorn Health Center, as well as a new building for Fontenelle Health Center, opened. Nebraska Medicine moved its Clarkson Family Medicine Clinic to a larger building in downtown Omaha, also performing the first

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