For so long, education and health rarely intertwined beyond the nurse's office. But these days, phrases like "chronic absenteeism," "health care deserts" and "achievement gap" are common parlance in the discussion of education.
An emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend. The hospital recently was designated a rural emergency facility, the first such hospital in Nebraska under a new federal program.
Warren Memorial sought the rural emergency hospital designation. The federal program comes with trade-offs, but it is helping to stabilize the Friend hospital’s finances.
Jeremy Svoboda, a physical therapist at Warren Memorial Hospital, helps Marcia Gavin with her therapy last week. Gavin, who lives across the street from the hospital in Friend, is completing physical therapy after a left shoulder replacement.
Friend Community Healthcare System co-CEOs (from left) Ron Te Brink, Amy Thimm and Jared Chaffin pose for a photo inside Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend. To find more solid financial ground for the hospital, officials last fall sought a new federal designation intended to maintain essential health care services in communities served by small rural hospitals.
Photos: Warren Memorial Hospital becomes first rural emergency hospital in Nebraska.
Friend Community Healthcare System co-CEOs, from left, Ron Te Brink, Amy Thimm and Jared Chaffin, pose for a photo inside Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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Jeremy Svoboda, a physical therapist at Warren Memorial Hospital, helps Marcia Gavin with her therapy in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Gavin, who lives across the street from the hospital, is completing physical therapy after a left shoulder replacement.
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A look inside the operating room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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A look at an Avel eCare telemedicine call box inside an emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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Amy Thimm, vice president of clinical services and quality and interim co-CEO, left, and Ron Te Brink, the hospital's chief information officer an interim co-CEO, talk inside an emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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Alphe Manalili, lab manager, talks about working at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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Marcia Gavin uses a pulley during her physical therapy at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Gavin, who lives across the street from the hospital, is completing physical therapy after a left shoulder replacement.
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A look at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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A look inside an emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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A sign advertising Warren Memorial Hospital's services, sits in the hospital's cafeteria in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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A look at an emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
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A look at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend, Neb., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
Friend Community Healthcare System co-CEOs (from left) Ron Te Brink, Amy Thimm and Jared Chaffin pose for a photo inside Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend. To find more solid financial ground for the hospital, officials last fall sought a new federal designation intended to maintain essential health care services in communities served by small rural hospitals.
Warren Memorial sought the rural emergency hospital designation. The federal program comes with trade-offs, but it is helping to stabilize the Friend hospital’s finances.
An emergency room at Warren Memorial Hospital in Friend. The hospital recently was designated a rural emergency facility, the first such hospital in Nebraska under a new federal program.
Jeremy Svoboda, a physical therapist at Warren Memorial Hospital, helps Marcia Gavin with her therapy last week. Gavin, who lives across the street from the hospital in Friend, is completing physical therapy after a left shoulder replacement.
