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A Visit to Urgent Care of Rockbrook in Omaha



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This blog post is a bit different than most because we're not going to be talking about real estate.  Instead, I decided to make a visit to Urgent Care of Rockbrook to chat with my friend Scott.  I wanted my readers and clients to know where they could go to get their medical needs met in a professional, caring environment.

Urgent Care of Rockbrook covers a variety of medical needs from coughs and colds to sports physicals.  They also do laceration repair and set broken bones.  Because they have a digital x-ray system, all imaging can be sent directly to your personal care physician or other specialists in the event that you have to go to urgent care during the off hours.

This facility also has a very sophisticated lab where you get your results almost immediately.  How frustrating is it to go to your regular doctor and have to wait days, if not weeks, for your lab work to be returned?  When you go to Urgent Care of Rockbrook, most of your lab work will be returned to you almost immediately so that you can take it back to your doctor if needed.

Another perk of this facility is that they have electronic medical records.  That means that your primary care doctor can easily access those to see what was done.  Scott told me that they are there to help the primary care doctors, so they send all charts to the doctor at the end of the day.

Urgent Care of Rockbrook treats everyone including tiny babies all the way up to the elderly.  They also do employer drug testing which the employer can see the results of online.  In addition, they do pre-employment physicals and $25 sports physicals.

This facility is open from 8 AM to 8 PM Monday through Saturday and 10 AM to 6 PM on Sundays.  They are open 365 days a year so that you can come when you need to.  You don't have to take off work to see a doctor because they are they are there in the off hours to help.

Urgent Care of Rockbrook has three exam rooms as well as a radiology room and lab.  They also offer preventative care such as flu shots.

When you need professional medical care, call on Urgent Care of Rockbrook. Of course, when you need help with your next real estate transaction, call me!

Kalamazoo’s Promise Is Going Strong – Here’s To Building the Omaha Promise



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Why is it that here we are in the 21st century yet there is still a vast economic divide that continues to become wider, forcing millions of children to give up their dreams of aiming high for higher education?  There are so many countries that consider education (right up there with health care) as being the natural born right of their citizens. Why, then, does America continue to lag behind?

In one small town in the Midwest, a school superintendent moved to answer this question by doing something about it.  Dr. Janice Brown, former Superintendent of the Kalamazoo Public School system in Kalamazoo, Michigan spent years developing a model that would very well give back the promise of a future to all the children in her district.  As Katie Couric reports in the CBS Evening News, Dr. Brown spent five years developing the program and through a group of anonymous donors has been able to secure an educational scholarship for each and every child of the KPS.  There are some guidelines for the Kalamazoo Promise but they are achievable ones that are designed to illicit responsibility, accountability and strong academic performance as incentives.  With over 40 participating higher education institutions involved, students have much variety in education and lots of curriculum options.

Closer to home in Omaha, there are countless children that may or may not be able to make it past high school yet each deserves the right to an avenue for a strong future.  Why couldn’t we, as a community, come together and build the same promise for our youth?  In fact, if we partnered with some of the amazing institutions we have right here in our own hometown, such as the University of Nebraska Medical Center, imagine the possibilities that could open up?

As Dr. Brown mentions in her interview with Katie Couric, the whole system ingeniously supports the economy, which in turn supports the citizens, which end up coming right back to boost the economy even more.  That sounds like a win-win to me!

There is no reason that we couldn’t do the exact same thing – and even better – right here in Omaha.  The Omaha Promise could very well become a reality.  So I propose that we come together, pool our resources, tap into every single resource we have both individually and commercially – to make this dream a reality.

What do you think?  I’d love to hear some of your thoughts and suggestions as to how we can accomplish this.  We need to help each other.  Wouldn’t it be great to help create a legacy that will truly live on for generations yet to come?