The Creighton University Medical Center (formerly Creighton Memorial Saint Joseph Hospital) is a modern teaching hospital. Completed in December of 1977, the six-level hospital combines modern medical facilities with a tradition of community service that has distinguished the Creighton University Medical Center for more than a century. There are 400 acute care beds with all major, specialty and subspecialty areas of medicine represented. It serves as a major referral center for the Midwest area with over 12,000 hospital admissions annually.

Also affiliated with the Creighton University Medical Center is the Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) which is located a short 3 miles from the CUMC. It is a 242-bed acute care hospital and is closely integrated into the Pathology Resident Education Program.

Pathology Facilities and Activities

All training rotations are under the direction of Creighton University. The primary teaching hospital of Creighton University is the 400-bed Creighton University Medical Center. The western portion of the Hospital building has classrooms, offices, and outpatient clinics and examination rooms for faculty members. The Boys Town National Research Hospital is also within the Creighton University Medical Center. The School of Dentistry, and the Health Sciences Library, Bio-Information Center are also part of the Medical Center. The Department of Pathology operates the Creighton Medical Laboratories, an outreach service that provides laboratory services to Creighton clinics, community Physicians, and rural hospitals and clinics. The Hospital clinical laboratories are modern and well equipped to provide comprehensive service and training in all areas of laboratory medicine. The Hospital has 12,000 admissions annually, with 80 autopsies, 16,000 surgicals, 20,500 cytologies, including 2,000 non-gyn specimens and over one million billable tests or profiles performed. Resident rotations at the Midwest Region American Red Cross Blood Center, Nebraska Forensic Institute, and Children's Memorial Hospital are integrated into the pathology training program.

The Pathology Laboratory occupies over 25,000 square feet and performs more than 1,000,000 individual tests each year. The Laboratory serves the complex needs of the Hospital by offering a wide array of tests from the routine to the very sophisticated. In serving the needs of a tertiary care hospital, new procedures are constantly being evaluated and implemented.

 

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