The granddaughter of a man who died at the Boulder City home says staffers were aware that workers and residents were not being tested regularly for COVID-19.
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VA Secretary Denis McDonough urged veterans to seek medical care and compensation under one of the largest expansions of VA healthcare services in U.S. history.
Officials said few people in the state have administered more COVID-19 vaccines than Nevada Air Guard Capt. Caleena Longworth. She graduated from medical school in May.
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.
Older military veterans are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Veterans Affairs hospital in North Las Vegas, with a few restrictions.
Three more residents and a staff member at the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home in Boulder City have tested positive for COVID-19.
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 health care workers are under home quarantine after exposure to a patient there who tested positive for the new coronavirus, a hospital spokesman confirmed late Monday.
Military veterans die of suicide at a far higher rate than their civilian counterparts, but Las Vegas is one of eight cities at the forefront of an effort to change that.
William “Bill” Caron, the new director and CEO of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, will oversee delivery of health care to 63,000 veterans.