Nebraska

Nebraska State Resources:

1. State Insurance Commissioner:

To safeguard those affected by the business of insurance through the fulfillment of our statutory obligations and by promoting the fair and just treatment of all parties to insurance transactions.

2. State Medical Board:

The Board of Medicine and Surgery advises the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure on all issues related to the regulation of physicians.

3. State Minority Office:

The Office of Minority Health (OMH) works to equalize health outcomes and eliminate health disparities in Nebraska.

4. State Nursing Board:

The Nebraska Board of Nursing recognizes and accepts its obligation to protect the consumers of nursing services from unsafe, incompetent or substandard nursing care.

5. State Midwifery Organization:

Unable to locate.

6. Friends of Midwifery:

Nebraska Friends of Midwives website

Nebraska Friends of Midwives blog

Nebraska Friends of Midwives Facebook page

Nebraska Friends of Midwives Yahoo Group

7. State Healthy Start or Associated Improved Pregnancy Program/Director’s email:

Omaha Healthy Start, an initiative of Charles Drew Health Center, is one of the 96 federally funded Healthy Start projects in the United States, which promotes community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those that focus on the reduction of infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.

8. State Pregnant Patient’s Bill of Rights or Patient’s Bill of Rights:

Unable to locate.

9. State Medicaid Complaint Information:

http://www.dhhs.ne.gov/reg/forms/1.pdf

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