Project Health

The future site of Project Health, located at the corner of Farnam Street and Saddle Creek Road.

Project Health, also known as Phase 1 of Project NExT, will provide needed campus enhancements to research, education, clinical and community ​service missions of UNMC and Nebraska Medicine. The enhancements build capacity in new facilities, as well as build the state’s health workforce ​through class size and residency expansion.

  • The project includes a new $2.19 billion healthcare facility ​at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine that will serve as a clinical ​learning center to train the next generation of healthcare ​providers, conduct research, and offer clinical trials.
  • Will be built on the now vacant, 7.5-acre site formerly ​occupied by JP Lord Elementary School and the Munroe-​Meyer Institute (which relocated to Omaha’s Aksarben area ​in June 2021).
  • Will serve as an ultramodern clinical learning and research ​environment.
  • Will be the primary in-patient clinical hospital for Nebraska ​Medicine; creating more than 550 beds.