Claim: 3 Nebraska Medicaid providers honored for serving patients.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: and the District of Columbia and 43 foreign countries. Nebraska Medicine's stroke program, heart failure program and acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) program have all received the "Gold Seal of Approval" certification from The Joint Commission, making these services the first nationally certified programs of their kind in the state of Nebraska. Nebraska Medicine is also the only hospital in the state that qualifies for the Level 4 (highest) designation per the standards of the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. Nebraska Medicine's main campus, located in midtown Omaha, is anchored by Clarkson Tower, University Tower, Lied Transplant Center and the

title: Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital
text: individuals who participate in those government sponsored programs. The hospital has twice been recognized as a top orthopaedic provider by U.S. News & World Report. In 2011, Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital was recognized as the 38th best hospital in the nation for orthopaedic care, and #1 in the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro region. Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital was named one of America's 100 Best for Joint Replacement, as well as the recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award and Outstanding Patient Experience Award by Healthgrades in 2015. In addition, the hospital ranked 61st out of 3,575 hospitals in Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing Program. Nebraska

title: Ella Ochoa
text: the Minority Health Advisory Committee for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. The NAF was an organization headquartered in Nebraska with locations in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island, Lincoln, and Omaha. While operating from 1979-2011, it offered many benefits to immigrant workers and helped to meet educational, developmental, and social needs. Ella Ochoa received The Ohtli Award in 1997, which is one of the highest awards given by the Mexican government to the Mexican community abroad. She also received the Nebraska commission of the status of women “Women of the Year”. In 2012, she received the MAFO Lifetime

title: Matt Hansen
text: of Medicaid in Nebraska under the terms of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, declaring, "Ensuring that all Nebraskans have access to quality health care should remain a top priority of the Legislature"; Smoyer opposed it, expressing concern lest the federal government renege on its promise to reimburse states for the costs of the Medicaid expansion. Hansen favored the abolition of capital punishment in Nebraska; Smoyer favored keeping the death penalty, though using it rarely. Hansen was described as supporting a woman's right to an abortion; Smoyer, as "anti-abortion". Hansen wanted to repeal Nebraska's policy of denying driver's licenses to persons

title: Roy Baker (politician)
text: learned to manage on a limited budget as a school superintendent, and that he would be one of the few legislators who understood Nebraska's state-aid-to-schools formula. On specific issues, Baker supported the proposed expansion of Medicaid in Nebraska under the provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act; Tiemann was inclined to oppose the expansion, lest the federal government renege on its pledge to reimburse states for the increased costs. Baker supported retaining a state law offering in-state tuition rates to persons who were residing illegally in the United States after being brought into the country as children, and who were

title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: care facility in Nebraska, with more than 4,700 employees and more than 1,000 physicians on staff. Physicians at the center practice in all major specialties and sub-specialties attracting patients from across the region and from around the world. It is a 624-acute-care-bed facility with more than 350 medical and surgical residents and assists in the training and education of more than 1,000 students. In fiscal year 2009, Nebraska Medicine treated more than 24,000 inpatients and had more than 480,000 encounters in outpatient settings including diagnostic testing, radiology and specialty clinics. The medical center has treated patients from all 50 states

title: Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
text: Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services The Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is a state agency of Nebraska, headquartered in Lincoln. The agency provides health and human services for both families and regular patients. Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Kearney (YRTC-K) in Kearney is the juvenile correctional facility for boys. Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Geneva (YRTC-G) in unincorporated Fillmore County, near Geneva, is the juvenile correctional facility for girls. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services managed those facilities for 23 years; on January 1, 1997, the youth correctional facilities were transferred out of

title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska Medicine (formerly the Nebraska Medical Center, the Nebraska Health System) is a complex of hospitals, medical clinics, and health care colleges located in Omaha, Nebraska. It was formed by the merger of Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital and the adjacent University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1997. The facility 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. Nebraska Medicine was named one of America’s best hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 publication for Cancer and Neurology

title: Ben Nelson
text: reimbursement scheme was derided by the measure's opponents as the "Cornhusker Kickback". Among those denouncing the provision was Dave Heineman, Nebraska's Republican governor. To these criticisms, Nelson responded that he had been attempting to eliminate an unfunded federal mandate upon the states, and that the Nebraska item was a "placeholder", intended from the start to be replaced by a revision that would provide reimbursement for the increased Medicaid costs of all states. Pro-life organizations also responded negatively to Nelson's vote. Nebraska Right to Life decried the anti-abortion language in the health-care bill as "bogus", and in April 2010 declared that

title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: facility covers over four floors. The building houses emergency, radiology, cardiology, surgery and the newborn intensive care unit. Also in 2005, CDC Director Julie Gerberding, M.D. joined physicians at The Nebraska Medical Center for the opening of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. In 2008, The Nebraska Medical Center opened a new Diabetes Center, the only one of its kind in the state and in the region dedicated to offering comprehensive care for patients with diabetes. In 2010, Nebraska Medicine partnered with UNMC Physicians and a group of physicians from Bellevue, Nebraska to open that city's first civilian hospital, Nebraska Medicine- Bellevue.

title: Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
text: the scope of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services The Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is a state agency of Nebraska, headquartered in Lincoln. The agency provides health and human services for both families and regular patients. Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Kearney (YRTC-K) in Kearney is the juvenile correctional facility for boys. Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center - Geneva (YRTC-G) in unincorporated Fillmore County, near Geneva, is the juvenile correctional facility for girls. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services managed those facilities for 23 years; on January 1,

title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: Hixson-Lied Center. Additional facilities in Omaha include nine outpatient clinics, Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital and Nebraska Medicine- Bellevue. The hospital provides a communication network to facilitate the education of, and sharing of expertise with, small rural facilities. The Lied Transplant Center, completed in 1999, is a 13-story building houses a 24-hour clinic, research labs and suites for patients and families. The Eppley Cancer Center teams University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers with patient care physicians for the best possible treatment of cancer. In 2005, the Hixson-Lied Center for Clinical Excellence was opened with a formal dedication and public tours. The new

title: Mark Kolterman
text: Legislature and a member of the Republican Party, was barred by Nebraska's term-limits law from running for a third consecutive term. At the time of his announcement of candidacy, Kolterman stated that he favored some sort of expansion of Medicaid, which funds medical expenses for low-income people, if it could be done cost-effectively. In subsequent campaign materials and interviews, he declared that he was entirely opposed to the 2010 Affordable Care Act, and that "I do not support expanding [M]edicaid or other social welfare programs"; his opposition, he stated, was based in part on his belief that the federal government

title: Nebraska Methodist Health System
text: Nebraska Methodist Health System The Nebraska Methodist Health System, also known as Bestcare, is a nonprofit Nebraskan healthcare organization that was founded in 1982. Its headquarters are located at 8511 West Dodge Road in Omaha, Nebraska. The three major facilities in the system, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital (Council Bluffs, Iowa), Methodist Women's Hospital (Elkhorn, Nebraska), and Methodist Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska), have served the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area for more than 120 years. Two dozen additional facilities in rural Nebraska and Iowa provide family practice services and specialties including pediatrics, behavioral health, radiology, and allergy care. Created in 1982 by Methodist

title: Nebraska Medical Center
text: Although it is the primary teaching hospital for the adjacent University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medicine is a separate entity administratively. Employees at UNMC report to the chancellor of the University of Nebraska. Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska Medicine (formerly the Nebraska Medical Center, the Nebraska Health System) is a complex of hospitals, medical clinics, and health care colleges located in Omaha, Nebraska. It was formed by the merger of Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital and the adjacent University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1997. The facility has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and

title: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
text: Nebraska Medicaid deal—mainly involve taxes and spending. In other words, they're exactly the kinds of policies that are well-suited for reconciliation." The remaining obstacle was a pivotal group of pro-life Democrats led by Bart Stupak who were initially reluctant to support the bill. The group found the possibility of federal funding for abortion significant enough to warrant opposition. The Senate bill had not included language that satisfied their concerns, but they could not address abortion in the reconciliation bill as it would be non-budgetary. Instead, Obama issued Executive Order 13535, reaffirming the principles in the Hyde Amendment. This won the

title: Mike Groene
text: taxes. None of the three supported the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA); Dulin supported the proposed expansion of Medicaid in Nebraska under the ACA's provisions, while Groene and Paulman opposed it. In the primary election, Paulman received 42.3% of the vote; Groene, 37.6%; and Dulin, 20.0%. As the top two vote-getters, Paulman and Groene moved on to the general election. In announcing his candidacy, Groene had stated that he would not accept contributions from "special interest groups", and would only accept "help to run his campaign from individual citizens". Over the course of the entire campaign, he

title: Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital
text: Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital is the region's first hospital dedicated to the complete care and treatment of the orthopaedic patient. The hospital is licensed as an acute care hospital by the State of Nebraska and fully accredited by The Joint Commission. In addition, Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital has obtained Disease Specific Care Certification by the Joint Commission for both total hip and total knee replacement - the only hospital in Nebraska to hold this level of certification. It is also certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), therefore the hospital is able to provide care for

title: Nebraska Methodist Health System
text: Hospital leaders, the system operates as a not-for-profit. There are 685 beds within the system, with facilities offering programs in obstetrics, neurology, cancer care, cardiology, rehabilitation, and geriatric care. The Methodist Health System is affiliated with the Nebraska Methodist College. Nebraska Methodist Health System The Nebraska Methodist Health System, also known as Bestcare, is a nonprofit Nebraskan healthcare organization that was founded in 1982. Its headquarters are located at 8511 West Dodge Road in Omaha, Nebraska. The three major facilities in the system, Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital (Council Bluffs, Iowa), Methodist Women's Hospital (Elkhorn, Nebraska), and Methodist Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska),

title: HONOReform
text: represented 19 of the 99 Nebraska patients in their malpractice claims. HONOReform was founded in 2007 using settlement funds Evelyn McKnight secured in her malpractice trial. HONOReform was established to advocate patient justice, safety, and compassion by promoting the lessons learned from hepatitis outbreaks. Since its formation, HONOReform advocates have lobbied the U.S. Congress and federal health agencies for greater oversight of private physician offices and other stand-alone healthcare facilities. HONOReform has fought to raise awareness to widely accepted healthcare standards that call for using syringes and similar products once. In addition to its federal advocacy efforts, HONOReform leaders have