Intestinal Rehabilitation - The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center is home the United States' busiest intestinal transplant program. But intestinal failure does not always mean a transplant is necessary. The Nebraska Medical Center also houses the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program. The doctors, nurses and coordinators who run the program take a close, personal interest in every patient, and believe once you are part of the intestinal rehab program, you are family.

With a reputation for excellence, innovation and extraordinary patient care, The Nebraska Medical Center has earned J.D. Power and Associates Hospital of Distinction award for inpatient services for three consecutive years. It is a US News & World Report 2008 Best Hospital for Cancer, Neurology and Neurosurgery. It also received the 2007 Consumer Choice Award, a mark of patient satisfaction as selected by healthcare consumers and has achieved Magnet recognition status for nursing excellence, Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals Performance Improvement Leader recognition, as well as the Award of Progress from the state of Nebraskas Edgerton Quality Awards Program. As the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, this 689 licensed bed academic medical center has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and is well known nationally and regionally for its oncology, neurology and cardiology programs. The Nebraska Medical Center can be found online at http://www.nebraskamed.com/transplant.

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