Opened in November 2016.
The Lauritzen Outpatient Center and Fritch Surgery Center is a state-of-the-art, multispecialty outpatient surgery center with designated ophthalmology suites.
- Funding was largely through private support in partnership with the University of Nebraska Foundation. The primary donor is Bruce Lauritzen, longtime chairman of the Nebraska Medical Center board of directors and chairman of First National Bank of Nebraska. Other major donors are UNMC alum and ophthalmologist Dr. Charles Fritch and his wife, Judy, and Bill and Ruth Scott.
- Cost: $70 million.
- The 168,000-square-foot building houses 48 exam rooms, outpatient clinics, an outpatient surgery center with 10 operating rooms, surgeon and faculty offices, telehealth offices and research space for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation.
- A related project by UNMC's clinical partners expanded outpatient services to Village Pointe Medical Center in west Omaha.
Located between 40th and 41st Streets south of Emile Street, just up the hill from the Truhlsen Eye Institute.
The center is connected to the Eye Institute by a skywalk.
The Truhlsen Skywalk
Opened in March 2018.
- Connects from the third level of the Truhlsen Eye Institute to the second level of the Lauritzen Outpatient Center/Fritch Surgery Center.
- Approximately 230 feet long and 8 feet wide.
- Total cost of $2.1 million -- all privately funded.
- Spans 40th street; it was determined with city officials that UNMC would now be responsible for the street.
- Dr. Stan Truhlsen was 97 when the skywalk was dedicated. He turned 100 in 2020, and passed away on December 23, 2021.