A private psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas is stepping up to help mentally ill youth with a “very overdue” expansion to services.
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Nevada’s largest mental health facility isn’t a treatment center at all.
When Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff at University Medical Center, learned another physician had claimed that a 90-day jail stay would place boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s health in jeopardy, Carrison said he felt embarrassment for the medical profession. Carrison said ” sanity prevailed” when a judge denied Mayweather’s request to be placed under house arrest because of “inhumane” conditions at the Clark County Detention Center.
Terrified, Deanna Wise lay in a hospital bed and prayed. Her doctor, a specialist concerned with the care of the mother and fetus in high-risk pregnancies, had told her to get to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, immediately.
Henderson resident Sandy Runkle visited a new doctor recently and, understandably, missed a few signatures on the voluminous intake paperwork.
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