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UNMC, Nebraska Medicine part of Ebola training and education center

Nebraska Medicine is one of three hospitals in the U.S. that will be part of a National Ebola Training and Education Center.

Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC will collaborate over the next decade with Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. The three hospitals will use a $12 million federal grant to develop training materials and teach health professionals around the world best practices for treating Ebola and other highly infectious diseases.

UNMC Chancellor Dr. Jeffrey Gold says they'll collaborate with the two hospitals over the next decade.

"That will allow us to build the policies and procedures, participate in the research, do the training and education necessary to be sure that a spectrum of eight regional centers, 55 treatment centers, and well over 100 assessment centers across the United States, as well as countless organizations and institutions around the world, will have an opportunity to deliver state-of-the-art care."

Last fall, Nebraska Medical Center treated three patients in its Biocontainment Unit who contracted Ebola in West Africa. Nebraska Medical Center was also recently named one of nine regional centers in the U.S. designated to treat patients with highly infectious diseases.

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