Just shy of a year after he became “Patient Zero” in Nevada’s COVID-19 outbreak, Ronald Pipkins is still battling the lingering effects of the coronavirus.
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For the first time since March, seniors living in long-term care facilities will now be visited by officials in the state’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.
Three more residents and a staff member at the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City have tested positive for COVID-19.
While testing for COVID-19 is becoming available to more Clark County residents, testing of the homeless remains haphazard even though they are at high risk.
About half of the residents at 190-bed The Heights in Summerlin have been infected by the new coronavirus. The death toll is now the highest at any state-regulated institution.
To replace the closing sites, Three Square Food Bank has added two weekly drive-thru distributions, which will begin Saturday and Wednesday at Central Christian Church at 1001 New Beginnings Drive in Henderson.
Twenty assisted living and nursing facilities in Nevada have confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, according to a state report released this week.
In his final days, Edward Turken, 96, serenaded his son over the phone with tunes like “Stayin’ Alive” and “California Dreamin’ ” from his bed in the ICU unit at Summerlin Hospital.
The man received services at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and the city of Las Vegas’ Courtyard Homeless Resource Center while he was symptomatic, health officials say.
Mike and Cecy Hansen are raising a severely disabled 3-year-old boy damaged by parent abuse as an infant and a 2-year-old girl born to an alcohol and opiate addicted mother.