The Nebraska Medical Center boasts a long, ever-growing list of "Nebraska Firsts" in its history:

• First Blue Distinction Center for Rare & Complex Cancers (2008)
• First Endovascular Repair of Aortic Dissection (2008)
• Busiest Small Bowel Program in Nation (2007)
• First Calypso 4-D Localization System for Radiation Therapy in Region (2007)
• First autologous islet transplant on a young child (2007)
• First nationally certified Congestive Heart Failure and Acute Myocardial Infraction (heart attack) programs (2007)
• First "Frozen Elephant Trunk" procedure in North America (2006)
• First combination heart transplant / aortic aneurysm repair in North America (2006)
• First nationally certified Stroke Center (2005)
• First "level 4" Epilepsy Program (2005)
• First Novalis Radiation Therapy System in Region (2004)
• First Anonymous Living Kidney Donation/Transplant Performed (2003)
• First Unrelated Living Liver Transplant (2001)
• First Adult to Adult Living Related Liver Transplant (2001)
• First Bowel Resection Using Surgical Robotic Equipment in World (2000)
• First Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) to treat cancer (2000)
• Delivered the first set of quintuplets (1998)
• First heart transplant (1985)
• First liver transplant (1985)
• First peripheral stem cell transplant program founded (1984)
• First bone marrow transplant (1983)
• First lens implant (1975)
• First kidney transplant (1964)
• First corneal transplant (1958)
• First kidney dialysis (1957)
• First cardiac catheterization (1955)