Opened in spring 2020.
The Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center (Davis Global Center) is a highly advanced clinical simulation facility purposefully designed to foster the practice of patient care in highly-functioning and effective interprofessional teams. The 192,000 sq.ft. center is made up of five distinct levels that work together to create a safe and innovative learning environment.
The facility is located just south of the Sorrell Center on 42nd & Emile streets on what used to be a parking lot.
Highlights
- Serves as headquarters for iEXCEL (Interprofessional, Experiential Center for Enduring Learning), a transformational training program for health care professionals.
- Houses a replicated health care system. For example, a home unit, ambulance bay, trauma room, intensive care unit, labor and delivery and pediatric rooms, and many other health care settings. Each space has real hospital equipment and human patient simulators.
- Provides safe, simulated environments and advanced visualization technology so doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals can practice and hone their skills - including teamwork.
- Enables healthcare teams to practice the safe transportation of patients from one level of care to the next, replicating how a patient is transferred from home to the hospital and back.
- Uses 3D & Virtual Reality to “bring learning to life” – a team of medical artists, computer programmers, gamers, animators, and graphic designers work with UNMC clinical experts to create health care content.
- Houses the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Training, Simulation & Quarantine Center (TSQC) on the ground level. The TSQC involves a specialized training unit for working with highly infectious diseases, as well as a 20-bed quarantine unit, the only designated federal quarantine unit in the country.
- Includes a team of simulation experts who support faculty, students, and Nebraska Medicine staff as they adopt simulation for training.
Of Special Note, the Davis Global Center...
- Features the largest Crystal LED SONY wall in the western hemisphere.
- Features the first holographic theater in any academic institution in the world.
- Is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified.
- – Comprised of campus stone, self-shading glass, and metal panels.
- – Over 800 tons (58%) of construction waste was diverted from the landfill.
- Features a customized metal cone that marks the south entrance. The wall – the hallmark of A. Zahner, the Kansas City, Mo., architecture company - can be programmed to depict various color sequences as well as light shows.
- Features Simulation in Motion-Nebraska (SIM-NE), a statewide, mobile education system that provides state-of-the-art hands-on training to pre-hospital and hospital professionals throughout Nebraska.
- Includes a Virtual Reality Innovation Academy, which provides trainees an industry certificate in AR/VR skills training.
Davis Global Center Levels
Lower Level: iExcel Simulated Community
The lower level of the Davis Global Center features a Home Care Unit for emergency response training and home safety evaluations and an Ambulance Bay to practice transportation of patients and transfer of care from emergency medical services (EMS) to the hospital.
Ground Level: Global Center for Health Security
The ground level of the Davis Global Center features a 6-bed biocontainment clinical training and simulation unit for professionals to learn to care for and conduct procedures for patients with highly infectious diseases, a 20-bed National Quarantine Unit, and a Multi-Purpose Room with emergency operations center (EOC) capabilities and training facility.
Level 1: iExcel Visualization & Virtual Reality
The first level of the Davis Global Center features 3D, AR/VR, and holographic technologies to inspire and foster curriculum innovation and collaborations with industry and the military, including a 70-seat Holographic Theater that produces extraordinary virtual images, the interactive digital Helix and the iEXCEL Laser CAVE–5, a fully immersive, five-sided 3D laser cave to expand learning, research and development opportunities.
Level 2: iExcel Clinical Simulation
The second level of the Davis Global Center features realistic simulated hospital units where clinical competencies and team communication are learned, practiced and tested with lifelike simulators and real-world clinical equipment. The Acute Care Unit has a realistic, simulated operating room (OR), a labor and delivery room, patient rooms and a pediatric unit. The Critical Care Unit features a realistic, simulated emergency department, trauma unit, intensive care unit and imaging room. Pre-briefing and debriefing rooms allow for session preparation and review of recorded sessions.
Level 3: iExcel Surgical & Interventional Skills
The third level of the Davis Global Center features advanced surgical skills training in replicated ORs using fresh tissue and surgical simulators. The facility provides a venue for collaboration with industry for training workshops and research and development. The Surgical Skills Suite has 20 OR bays and a command center for recording and broadcasting locally, nationally and globally. Also included is a Hybrid OR/Interventional Suite for surgical training sessions. Surgical Skills Labs with surgical simulators allow learners to practice and improve essential skills including hand-eye coordination, depth perception and suturing.