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[2] [1] The largest hospital in the state is the University of Nebraska Medical Center has 718 staffed beds and was founded in 1917. The oldest hospital, Creighton University Medical Center was found in 1870 and has 396 beds on its main campus. The number of beds are include in this table for hospitals with 50 or more licensed beds in 2022. [3]
North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. [6] It derives its name from the North Platte River. [7] [8]North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from December 1866 until the next section to Ogallala was opened the following year. [9]
Nebraska's numbering plan areas and area codes (blue) Area code 308 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for western Nebraska.It was created on July 1, 1954, by splitting the numbering plan area (NPA) 402 along a roughly S-shaped boundary line from the western half of the Nebraska–South Dakota border to the approximate center of the Nebraska–Kansas border.
Children's Nebraska (formerly [1] Children's Hospital & Medical Center Omaha) is a non-profit regional pediatric specialty health care center located in Omaha, Nebraska.The 243-bed hospital is the only free-standing children's hospital in Nebraska and serves patients from throughout its home state, western Iowa, South Dakota, northern Kansas and northwestern Missouri.
In 1870, the Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Asylum for the Insane in the capital city of Lincoln. [1] The state's increasing population led to overcrowding at the Lincoln hospital; [2] in 1885, the Legislature appropriated $75,000 to build a second facility in the Norfolk area, subject to the city's donating 320 acres (130 ha) of good land. [3]
The Lincoln County Courthouse is a historic two-story building in North Platte, Nebraska, and the courthouse of Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was built in 1921–1924, and again in 1931–1932, by H.R. McMichael. [2] The building was designed in the Classical Revival and Beaux-Arts styles by architects George A. Berlinghof and Cecil Calvert ...
Bailey Yard is halfway between Denver and Omaha. [1] It covers a total expanse of 2,850 acres (4.45 sq mi; 11.5 km 2) and is over 8 miles (13 km) in length and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide at its widest point; the facility is about 1,000 yards (910 m) wide on average.
The North Platte U.S. Post Office and Federal Building is a historic three-story building in North Platte, Nebraska. It was built in 1913, and designed in the Renaissance Revival style by architect James Knox Taylor. [2] Its front facade has a central entrance under a brick segmented arch. [2]