Registered nurses in Nevada and 14 other states are coming together this week to shine a light on what they call a lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic on the part of hospital parent company HCA Healthcare. National Nurses Unite held events Wednesday at multiple HCA hospitals, including MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas. More actions are planned for Thursday.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An associate dean at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine has been named chairman of an 11-member state panel tasked with identifying ways to improve health care affordability and quality in Nevada.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s new health insurance marketplace has enrolled more than 60,000 people in a health plan during the first third of the 45-day enrollment period.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Rural northeast Nevada cancer patients will have to travel to get radiation therapy after an Elko oncology center closes its doors next month.
Mental Health America compiles an annual, comprehensive list of how well each state handles mental health challenges, primarily through access to care and percentage of people with unmet care. Last year, Nevada ranked last on that list.
In a wide-ranging roundtable interview, the leaders of Southern Nevada’s three medical schools talk about the state of medical education, how to fix the doctor shortage, the challenges of fundraising, and what’s better, cadavers or robots.
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Eight hospitals in Utah have been ranked among the nation’s worst performing for patient safety.
This week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified about 800 hospitals across the U.S. that had high rates of patient injuries.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new lawsuit revives allegations that Nevada officials bused psychiatric patients out of state after discharge and made no real plans for treatment at their destination.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is agreeing to accept $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with an insurance provider that wouldn't pay a state claim to settle allegations of patient dumping with the city of San Francisco.
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The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health has received a $100,000 grant from the federal government to support connecting the state's mental health sysetm to a health information exchange
