Frail patients are discharged to unregulated facilities or sent home in the middle of the night in ride-hailing vehicles without a guardian or caregiver first being notified, records show.
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Candida auris cases have reached their highest levels, months after Nevada’s congressional delegation called for a better plan for fighting the fungus.
The board won’t revoke the medical license of George Chambers, found to have engaged in disreputable conduct for offering patients money to pose nude.
Dr. George Chambers engaged in disreputable conduct in connection with offering two patients money to pose nude, but there wasn’t enough evidence in a third allegation, a hearing officer determined.
A former patient of Dr. George Chambers, the subject of a separate state medical board inquiry, has accused him of sexual assault and battery.
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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.
Nationwide shortage of two dozen chemotherapy drugs results in delayed care and rationing for cancer patients.
Southern Nevada Health District will continue to provide free vaccine and testing, though not as widely.
Proposed legislation that would dramatically increase the cap on awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases would intensify a doctor shortage in Nevada, opponents say.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Officials warn of the possibility of a spike in West Nile virus in Southern Nevada this summer.
Cases and hospitalizations, already at low levels, continue to trend downward.
Las Vegas physician Dr. George Chambers, accused of sexual misconduct with three patients, spoke during a hearing by a state medical licensing board.