A mother, who oversaw her late son’s donation of six of his organs, and a recipient of a life-saving kidney were inspired to join forces at the Nevada Donor Network.
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Ann Lynch, a hospital vice president who co-founded a few local nonprofit organizations and served a tenure as the National PTA president, died on Dec. 23.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto visited Desert Springs Hospital, a mental health facility that will add 94 beds to expand its in-patient services.
The Southern Nevada Health District announced Monday that norovirus may be the cause of an outbreak in late January at a Las Vegas elementary school.
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.
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.
Vaccinations will be offered at Friday’s Pride parade in downtown Las Vegas and Saturday’s Pride festival in North Las Vegas.
The Southern Nevada Health District has received reports of two additional probable monkeypox cases in Clark County residents, according to a news release.
The BA.2 variant has triggered a significant uptick in cases in the U.K and elsewhere, and its growing prevalence in the U.S. has created concern among public health authorities.
Staffing at Clark County hospitals has been stretched thin during the COVID-19 pandemic. A health official said that as of Thursday, 300 employees were out sick at the three Las Vegas-area HCA hospitals.
The county’s test positivity rate continued to climb from Friday through Sunday and now stands at 7 percent. Other metrics were flat to lower.
Many U.S. authorities say the potency of COVID-19 vaccines hasn’t waned, but they make a case for booster shots in some individuals.
About 36 percent of graduates are staying in Nevada for their residencies. The medical school is hoping to build that pipeline to address the state’s physician shortage.
The state’s two-week moving positivity rate declined to 5.6 percent on Thursday, the first decline in the metric in more than a week, according to state data.
HCA Healthcare and the union representing 4,000 of its nurses and hospital workers in the Las Vegas Valley have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.