Nathan Adelson Hospice is providing grief counseling sessions for those affected by the Oct. 1 shooting. In addition, SilverSummit Healthplan and Envolve Health have established a 24-hour crisis hotline
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Eight people were still in Las Vegas area hospitals on Monday as a result of injuries sustained in the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting, four of whom were in critical condition.
Joseph Bruno, the nurse in charge in the University Medical Center’s trauma unit on Oct. 1, says he will never forget the silence amid the carnage.
Area museums and historians have created a plan to preserve memorabilia and tell the story of the Route 91 shootings and its aftermath.
Three days after the Route 91 Harvest festival, Kimbur Presmyk began writing her story and shared it a day later on Facebook. The supportive response amazed her. More importantly, she’s gratified that her story highlights the humanity that shone in the thick of madness.
Masjid Ibrahim Islamic Center welcomed people of all faiths and backgrounds Monday night. Before their last prayer, they remembered victims of the Oct. 1 attack at the Route 91 Harvest festival that killed 58 people and injured nearly 500.
Southern Nevada hospitals and medical personnel were able to respond to the massive number of injuries from the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting and did not seek help from out-of-state, an official said Monday.
Nine dogs joined about 30 counselors from the American Red Cross to help calm and uplift those affected by the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
Members of Central Church in Henderson packed a Saturday evening service devoted to remembering shooting victims, praying for the injured, honoring first responders and working through grief.
The heartfelt outpouring of local pride that many Las Vegans have expressed this in the past week has become tangible, becoming even easier to display, thanks to a series of high-profile T-shirts designed to raise money for the victims of the Oct. 1 shootings.
For all the horror the past week has brought us, Southern Nevadans’ response to Sunday’s shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival has proven that we really are a community — and a strong, compassionate one at that.
Gail Schomisch, co-owner of All Fired Up in Las Vegas, is organizing a tile-art project for the memorial garden , which is being built on South Casino Center Boulevard.
Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.
A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.
“From our patients’ wounds you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used,” said one trauma surgeon who spent five straight hours in surgery after Sunday night’s mass shooting.
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