OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Alegent Health is acquiring Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, a move that will make the not-for-profit healthcare provider a primary teaching site for the university’s health science schools.

Officials of both institutions announced the acquisition of the medical center from Creighton University and Tenet Healthcare on Tuesday. The transaction is expected to close by July 1. No financial terms are being disclosed. Alegent would also assume operations of Creighton’s physician group. Creighton Medical Associates.

Creighton University President Timothy Lannon says the affiliation will provide more training opportunities for students.

Creighton is a Jesuit university and has over 4,200 undergraduates and 3,500 professional school and graduate students. Alegent Health is sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives and Immanuel. CHI has more than 70 healthcare facilities across the United States.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – First lady Michelle Obama will speak at a charity lunch in Omaha on Tuesday.
Obama is the featured speaker at Tuesday’s fundraiser for Girls Inc. After the lunch, Obama will speak at campaign events in Omaha and Des Moines, Iowa.
Michelle Obama is just the latest in a long line of prestigious speakers who have helped Girls Inc. raise money. Past speakers have included President Barack Obama, who appeared in 2005, and billionaire Warren Buffett.
Girls Inc. provides educational and recreational programs for girls.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A judge has ruled that United Healthcare can intervene in a lawsuit filed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska over the state’s planned switch to United Healthcare for health insurance.
Blue Cross had sued earlier this month, alleging improper lobbying on United Healthcare’s behalf.
Judge Steven Burns on Monday approved United Healthcare’s request to intervene.
Nebraska officials have said switching health insurance companies will save taxpayers and state employees a combined $8 million annually, so the state plans to change to United Healthcare on July 1.
Blue Cross officials have argued the change actually will cost an additional $10 million per year because of limits in the United Healthcare network.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) – The trial of a man accused of shooting and wounding a woman a Norfolk has been delayed.
34-year-old Carlos Arevalo-Martinez appeared in Madison County District Court and waived his right to a speedy trial. His attorney, Doug Stratton, says he just received police reports last week and they’ll need time to go over the reports with an interpreter.
Arevalo-Martinez’s trial on charges of first-degree assault and use of a fire to commit a felony is now set for July 9.
He’s accused of shooting 33-year-old Edna Gutierrez on Feb. 14.
He was taken into custody after a standoff with police in Stanton on Feb. 16.
Arevalo-Martinez remains in jail on $1 million bond.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The state has asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to dismiss the latest appeal from condemned killer Michael Ryan.
Attorney General Jon Bruning says Monday that the court should reject the appeal because there’s no doubt about Ryan’s guilt and the “meritless appeals only serve to delay justice.”
Ryan was sentenced to death for cult-related killings in 1985 in the southeast Nebraska town of Rulo.
The court in February put Ryan’s execution on hold while he pursued a lower court challenge to how Nebraska obtained one of three drugs that would be used to execute him.
The state is resisting an order to turn over to federal authorities the state supply of the drug, sodium thiopental.