The number of employees at the Southern Nevada Health District grew by almost two-thirds during the COVID-19 pandemic, records show.
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Dr. George Chambers is accused of sexual misconduct in a complaint alleging mistreatment of three patients.
A Las Vegas nurse volunteers in Ukraine, filling in the gaps left by nurses and doctors who’ve gone to the front lines of the war with Russia.
Time was running out for the young Afghan woman who had a coveted chance at a U.S. visa after her husband was evacuated from Kabul.
New indoor mask requirements go into effect at federal facilities including Nellis Air Force Base and the visitors center in the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area.
The Southern Nevada Health District strongly recommends that people wear masks in public indoor places and stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations.
Teams of federal and state health officials had visited five hospitals and skilled nursing facilities as of Wednesday morning.
The smoke-free and tobacco-free campus policy will apply to all university buildings.
At a time when anatomy increasingly is taught using interactive touch screens and models, Touro University’s leaders believe in the importance of learning by dissecting actual bodies, medicine’s centuries-old rite of passage.
“I don’t look at the world in black and white,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, who leads the Southern Nevada Health District.
Julia Kidd, a nurse at UMC, sought an exemption from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate based on her pagan beliefs. Her request was denied and she was suspended.
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.
As demand for COVID-19 testing soars, people with mild symptoms – or none at all – are crowding already busy Las Vegas-area emergency rooms to be tested for the coronavirus.
When Kabul fell, a Henderson military family stepped up to help an Afghan who had worked for a U.S. government contractor in his homeland find his stride in a faraway place.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked health care providers to be on alert for cases of measles and other infectious diseases in evacuees from Afghanistan.