The Nebraska Blue Foundation recently awarded McCook’s Community Hospital Health Foundation a $10,000 grant to support its ROOTS Student Housing Project, which addresses a major barrier to rural clinical training: Lack of housing. ROOTS, which is short for Rural Opportunities Offering Tomorrow’s Success, is a new 12-unit apartment building in McCook that will provide students
This fall, Sandhills High School installed a building-wide filtration system to improve water quality and support well-being with assistance from a $5,000 grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska’s (BCBSNE) Healthy Home Team initiative. Healthy Home Team provides $500 grants to high schools across the state to fund local well-being projects. In 2025,
Changes are coming to Morrill Elementary School this summer, as new physical education equipment gets installed with support from a Project Fit America (PFA) grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE). PFA is a nonprofit organization that promotes innovative fitness education in elementary and middle schools nationwide, with a focus on creating
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) is proud to support 21 nonprofits across the state with the company’s Health of Nebraska sponsorship. This sponsorship uplifts organizations that provide programs and services for Nebraskans impacted by a medical diagnosis. All sponsorship recipients are under the Combined Health Agencies Drive’s (CHAD) umbrella. CHAD has been
Pictured from left to right: Brante Hayes, Lynn Johnson, Samantha Koehler-Overton, Monica Vavak and Carmen Zalman Five educators from across the state took to the field on Saturday, April 22 before the Nebraska Red-White Spring Game began. Fans of their own are what brought them to Memorial Stadium to receive an award through
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) recently made Forbes’s 2023 Best Midsize Employers list. To create the rankings, Forbes partnered with Statista, a market research firm, to survey approximately 45,000 Americans working at organizations with 1,000 – 5,000 employees based in the U.S. The survey participants were asked if they’d recommend their current
As 2022 draws to a close, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) reflects on the community events, partnerships and news that defined the last 12 months. Here are a few of the company’s top stories from the past year: January - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Ignite Nebraska’s pilot group of apprentices at graduation. Pictured from left to right: Willie Nunn, Sheila Hamilton, Laura Croswell and Luke Grobeck Cheers and applause filled Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska’s (BCBSNE) conference room on Wednesday, Oct. 5 as family, friends and coworkers gathered to celebrate the graduation of Ignite Nebraska’s
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) will introduce a new individual health care plan called Nebraska HeartlandBlue on the government’s ACA Marketplace for 2023, providing Nebraskans and their families not covered under an employer’s health plan with more choices in coverage. “We exist to serve the people of Nebraska, to provide them with
In 2021, Jesse Hays, an Army reservist, was a few months into basic officer training in Virginia when he received the news he’d been waiting for back home. His full-time position in the Information Services (IS) department at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) was approved. “It was something that I wanted for
