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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Medical Center opened the new Lied Transplant Center on Thursday afternoon.
UNMC, through its new transplant center, is one of three hospitals in the natioll to use cooperative care in the
healing process. The Lied Center also has four floors which will be used for research. *•' 1
UNMC transplant center opens i
By Dawn Dietrich
Staff writer
Thursday’s opening of the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center’s Lied Transplant Center marked
a landmark in transplant research, uni
versity officials said Thursday.
As a major transplant research cen
ter, the Lied will study transplant possi
bilities with pig organs.
In treatment, the center will use a
new trend for patients - cooperative
care - that includes family and friends
in their recovery.
Because of this avant-garde
approach to research and care, UNMC
spokeswoman J. Lindsay Willis said, the
Lied Center would become world
renowned for the services it provides.
“The world is going to look at the
Lied Center,” Willis said
Another area of research that will be
looked at is Xenotransplantation
research. This research uses human
white blood cells and injects them into
pig fetuses. This helps to build an
immune system in the animal that will
decrease the human body’s rejection of
pig organs.
Willis said this research is still in the
early stages and has to be tested on a
series of animals and approved by the
Food and Drug Administration before
the transplant could be tested on
humans.
Medical students in all fields will
benefit from the transplant center,
Willis said
A key feature of the new transplant
center is the new approach to patient
care, Willis said. She said the “coopera
tive care” technique would aid in trans
plant recovery.
Cooperative care brings a patient’s
family and friends into the healing
process.
The patient picks a friend or family
member who is trained by the nurses to
be a caregiver. The caregivers are
expected to be with the patient 24 hours
a day, seven days a week in the hotel
like suites throughout the center.
Having a friend or a family member
close and involved in the healing
process helps to put the patient at ease,
Willis said,
Willis said she thought this program
was beneficial for nursing students
because they teach the caregivers how
to administer medicine and care for the
patient.
The new building was designed for
the cooperative care program. The 44
cooperative care suites are designed
like hotel rooms and have doors with
glass in them so the caregiver can take a
break and still be able to watch the
patient.
Along with the 44 cooperative care
suites, the Lied Center also has 44 guest
suites, called the Nebraska House,
which are used by patients and families
for visits before and after transplants,
and four floors for research.
The center also has an animal
research area that is on the first floor of
the building. The transplant center
works with human organs, bone mar
row and tissues.
All of this innovative technology
doesn’t come cheap: With a $61.3 mil
lion price tag, the Lied Center is the sin
gle most expensive construction project
the University of Nebraska has ever
embarked upon.
The money for the center was gath
ered from both private and public
sources. No state tax dollars were used
in the construction of the building, a
press release said.
Some of the donations came from
the Lied Foundation Trust, die Cowdery
family, one member of which was diag
nosed with cancer and received care at
UNMC, and die Olson family, which
helped support the Biomedical
Research Laboratories in the transplant
center. Willis said the research floors,
which will add needed space, will be
run by medical and graduate students
working on transplant and cancer
research.
The Eppley Cancer Center was run
ning out of space for cancer research.
Certain areas of research, such as
prostate cancer, were then added to the
research floors and designed for that
type of research, Willis said.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony
Thursday, former bone marrow trans
plant patient David Aresty of New
Jersey spoke of his decision to come to
UNMC for treatment.
He talked about the cooperative care
that treated him in 1989. Aresty said the
staff also helped him and his family get
through die tough time.
“It’s more than just a chemical treat
ment,” Aresty said.
Dr. Byers Shaw Jr. concluded the
ceremonies by saying, “the multifunc
tional building brings to Nebraska a
state-of-the-art transplant and cancer
facility.”
Draft of diversity plan debated
. By Kim Sweet
Staffwriter
Forums held during the last three
days and correspondence gathered dur
ing the past two months have beat pro
ductive in identifying the goals of a
diversity plan, one of the plan’s drafters
said Thursday.
But suggestions for the plan, which
is now only a working draft, have run
short on the action side, said Linda
Crump, director of affirmative action
and diversity programs and member of
the Gender/Equity resource group.
Comments about the working draft
of the plan were voiced this week during
forums directed at student, faculty and
staff members.
The goal of the forums was to get
suggestions and input on initiatives that
would achieve the goals of the plan.
But many of the concerns voiced
over e-mail and during the forums
lacked a way to solve than, Crump said.
“What we don’t have for every con
cern that is out there are real ways to
address them,” Crump said.
One of the most prevalent concerns
raised during the forum for students and
faculty members was the lack of an all
encompassing definition of diversity.
Without a definition of diversity, die
goals of die plan remain vague, said Jill
Matlock, a junior English major.
Evelyn Jacobson, associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs and a
member of the Diversity/Gender equity
team, agreed a definition was necessary.
‘it should help us to clarify goals of
different parts of the plan,” said
Jacobson, who helped draft die plan.
Students at Thursday’s meeting said
one of the most urgent topics action
needed to be taken on was the perceived
climate for gays and lesbians on campus
and the lack of a section in the plan to
deal with it.
The plan does not mention homo
sexuals, specifically, but instead focuses
on race and gender issues.
Suggestions came forth to provide
funding for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual
Transgendered Resource Center as well
as creating a chancellor’s committee for
gay and lesbian students.
The lack of attention the draft gave
to welcoming gays and lesbians was
also brought up in the faculty forum.
George Wolf, associate professor of
English, also said the current draft
leaves out a number of minorities that
aren’t identified by race or gender, such
as gays and lesbians.
“We resent this is called a diversity
plan,” Wolf said. “It is an attempt to
retain racial minorities.
A suggestion that came forward
from the faculty forum was creating a
mission statement for every department
promoting diversity.
One is in place in the sociology
department, said Thomas Calhoun,
associate professor of sociology.
“It’s such that each of us become
ambassadors to achieving (the diversi
ty) goal,” he said.
The Gender/Equity resource group
will take the suggestions it has received
and work to include them in the plan,
Crump said.
While the drafters of the plan
received many comments about what
goals should be accomplished with the
plan, the question ofhow they should be
achieved still remains, Crump said.
“There is a philosophical side to the
diversity plan, but there needs to be an
action side too,” she said.