Diabetes Center of Excellence Products, Competitors and Risks

Founded

2025

Location

Omaha, NE, US

Memo

Diabetes Care Foundation of Nebraska funded the Wahl chair and the earlier Diabetes On Track gift. Public sources treat DCF as a donor, not the owner or operator of this UNMC Board of Regents center, so the foundation should stay a related nonprofit rather than a parent.

The center is also distinct from Nebraska Medicine diabetes clinics, from UNMC's older one-stop diabetes pavilion, and from other universities' Diabetes Centers of Excellence. As of the source fetches, C-DIACARE still did not appear on UNMC's published Board of Regents centers directory, and no dedicated first-party center website or logo was found.

Product Overview

C-DIACARE is UNMC's coordinating unit for diabetes research, education, and statewide outreach. It is intended to connect faculty across UNMC colleges of medicine, public health, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy, plus the Eppley Institute, and to work with other University of Nebraska campuses.

The program is designed to expand the Diabetes On Track community model beyond its rural pilots and to translate diabetes research into tools for clinicians and patients. It operates alongside UNMC's clinical partnership with Nebraska Medicine rather than replacing hospital diabetes clinics.

Competitive Advantages

The center is a Board of Regents named unit at Nebraska's public academic health science campus, which lets it convene multi-college faculty and system campuses that already work on nutrition, obesity, prevention, and outcomes research. An endowed Wahl Presidential Chair funds a dedicated director without adding a new state appropriation.

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine cite nationally recognized hospital glycemic outcomes and a tested rural Diabetes On Track model as the operating base the center is meant to scale. That combination of an endowed academic chair, a statewide university system, and an existing community-care pilot is the public case for the designation.