Patient perspectives are being assessed, implemented and evaluated like never before in part because Medicare payments are linked to patient satisfaction.
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Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
A contagious case of tuberculosis at Desert Oasis High School is being investigated, and 180 people have been sent letters to get tested.
Scott Tyra is a nonsmoker who grew up in a household with two heavy smokers. He said he “felt sick since I can remember,” and at age 17, he had half of one of his lungs removed. Now 59, he said the other half is so scarred it is useless, and his remaining lung is failing. He’s been on the double organ transplant list at UCLA since 2007.
Growing innovations in digital health, wireless fitness tracking, telemedicine and wearable technology designed to promote healthier living and active aging go on display at CES trade show.
Brian Brannman, until Wednesday the vice president of operations for Dignity Health Nevada and CEO of St. Rose Dominican, Siena campus, has been appointed to lead the nonprofit company’s Nevada operations.
Entering into the new year brings excitement, reflection, and hope that are often embodied by our New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, many people’s resolutions go “in one year and out the other.” In fact, only 8 percent of people actually achieve their resolutions. Let’s draw out a clear map to reach our destination so we do not get lost.
Does full-day kindergarten improve children’s health? That’s the big question UNLV health sciences researchers plan to examine. Researchers are partnering with the Kansas Health Institute to create a health impact assessment that will inform how possible state legislative changes to full-day kindergarten could impact children’s health.
Southern Nevadans are fairly confident when it comes to handling the heat, but when winter winds blow it can be a different — and dangerous — story.
Implants have become the high-tech solution to replacing lost teeth, but they aren’t for everyone, dental surgeons say.
A U.S. health care worker who was possibly exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was expected to arrive for observation on Sunday at a Nebraska facility that has treated three Ebola cases, hospital officials said.
A nurse who is being treated for Ebola in a London hospital after contracting the disease while volunteering in Sierra Leone is now in critical condition, the hospital said Saturday.
One in four children younger than age five who were infected with Salmonella got the disease from a pet reptile in a recent UK study.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Southern Nevadans are only at the beginning of the influenza season with no indication of how severe the season might become, a public health spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Mirage, a landmark Strip resort, prepares to vanish
One of Strip’s most famous restaurants closing after nearly 26 years
Those wolves that were seen in Nevada? They weren’t wolves
$200K video poker jackpot hits at west Las Vegas Valley casino
Summerlin neighbor showed genitals before shooting, shooter’s wife tells police