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Understaffing has hospital patients calling 9-1-1, according to workers as their union contract is due to expire next week.
Las Vegas physician Dr. George Chambers, accused of sexual misconduct with three patients, spoke during a hearing by a state medical licensing board.
Dr. George Chambers is accused of sexual misconduct in a complaint alleging mistreatment of three patients.
Given that the population of Nevada is relatively young, the state “should have done better,” said one health expert.
Southern Nevada graduating medical students celebrated their matches with residency programs Friday. But Nevada medical school deans fear a “brain drain.”
Dr. George Chambers also has agreed to refrain from taking photos and videos of patients until a resolution of a complaint against him before a state board.
As pandemic emergency provisions wind down, thousands of Nevadans could lose their no-cost insurance coverage.
Dr. George Chambers said he would agree to have a board-supervised chaperone present during patient appointments until a hearing is held on allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
The facility will be converted to a free-standing emergency department after inpatient services are ended next year.
A lawsuit claims 87-year-old Marceil Scott was discharged from a Las Vegas hospital in freezing temperatures in the middle of the night. She died a month later.
Jackie DeSouza-Van Blaricum, the new president of HCA Healthcare Far West Division, began the job in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
In the federal lawsuit, the Las Vegas nurse, who was fired after being denied a a religious exemption to a COVID-19 vaccination mandate, claims discrimination and retaliation.
Higher cases numbers are concerning, though a facility where a case of Candida auris is identified may not be where the patient acquired the germ.
Gwen Vaughn took care of her mother with Parkinson’s at home until the disease progressed to where Nancy needed to enter a memory care facility. Then Gwen herself was diagnosed with the disease at age 48.