Advocates say mental illness, substance abuse and homelessness can affect anyone, but help is available to help those in need.
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About a year-and-a-half ago, the city of Las Vegas implemented a program that placed health care professionals to treat patients at the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center.
The facility will be converted to a free-standing emergency department after inpatient services are ended next year.
Family and community members gathered at Doolittle Community Center to remember Ashari Hughes, who collapsed and died after playing a flag football game Thursday.
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.
Jackie DeSouza-Van Blaricum, the new president of HCA Healthcare Far West Division, began the job in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Resorts World and Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada partnered to give 10-year-old Harli Hecht an experience dubbed “Time of Her Life.”
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.
Higher cases numbers are concerning, though a facility where a case of Candida auris is identified may not be where the patient acquired the germ.
Gwen Vaughn took care of her mother with Parkinson’s at home until the disease progressed to where Nancy needed to enter a memory care facility. Then Gwen herself was diagnosed with the disease at age 48.
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.
A Clark County teen has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba that he was likely infected with while in Lake Mead, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A Las Vegas hospital joins an FDA clinical trial to confirm the safety and feasibility of using a new, single-incision technology in a variety of colorectal surgeries.
Dozens of local organizations came together Saturday to provide information about resources in the community at the 31st annual Disability Awareness Day.
Dr. George Peter Chambers engaged in “sexual improprieties that constitute sexual misconduct,” according to the Nevada licensing board.