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University of Nebraska Medical Center officials broke ground today on a $118.9 million center they expect will transform health care education.

The building at 42nd and Emile Streets is to open in the fall of 2018 and will be named the Dr. Edwin Davis & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center for Advanced Interprofessional Learning – or, for short, the Davis Global Center.

The name, which awaits approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, recognizes a "leadership gift" from the Dorothy B. Davis Foundation of Omaha. Edwin Davis was a longtime UNMC physician known as a forerunner in incorporating new technology to enhance teaching.

Described as the nation’s most advanced experiential health care training facility, the center will feature replicas of hospital rooms and other settings where students and health professionals can practice treating lifelike mannequins. The center also will feature new high-tech visualization and virtual reality tools – some the first of their kind in the world – that will allow students to virtually map a brain tumor or see how a protein folds.

The other program to be housed in the center is the National Center for Health Security and Biopreparedness. A floor was added to building plans last year after the university announced that it had received a $19.8 million federal grant to develop a new training, simulation and quarantine center in Omaha that will help federal health care workers train to treat Ebola and other infectious diseases.

hatwate wrote:They have started work on the hotel at Saddle Creek and Dodge. The sign says it will be a Home 2 Suites.

nebraska wrote:

hatwate wrote:They have started work on the hotel at Saddle Creek and Dodge. The sign says it will be a Home 2 Suites.

Yeah, but it's not the NebMed hotel. It's separate from the hospital, here's the Home 2 thread.

daveoma wrote:Do we know what kind of hotel and how big it will be?

skinzfan23 wrote:Looks great at night. I noticed that it is visible from Dodge, wonder how that looks from Dodge St. at night.

Brad wrote:

skinzfan23 wrote:Looks great at night. I noticed that it is visible from Dodge, wonder how that looks from Dodge St. at night.

Its awesome. You can see its glow driving south on saddlecreek from the north for quite a ways.

Coyote wrote:The next project will be here:

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Rick Ruggles / World-Herald Bureau wrote:The recovery system will build a corporate office on the Leavenworth land. Kyle Herber, CEO of the recovery system, said Thursday that his entity is outgrowing its building at 8502 West Center Road.

Spatial77 wrote:Tower crane base going in at the iExcel site.

MTO wrote:Now I’m conflicted that rumored hotel on the hillside would block that view from Dodge.

iamjacobm wrote:The crane is up for the Davis Global Center.

While the art installations inside and outside the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center’s Chihuly Sanctuary weathered the metro area’s June 29 hailstorm with no damage, water leaked under an exterior door due to the heavy rain and damaged some wood flooring inside the facility.

The final cost of repairs has yet to be determined but is expected to be less than $100,000, officials said. A property insurance claim has been started.