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Partnership to help boost state health care system, education

According to CommonwealthFund.org, Nevada ranks in the bottom five states when it comes to health care. Now, the American Osteopathic Association has approved Nathan Adelson Hospice for a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program that looks to help remedy that.

Nevadans using special enrollment period for health insurance

The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange received fresh statistics on new members that have signed up so far in a 60-day special enrollment session that began April 1.

Patients could suffer as Cigna, UMC battle

The April 1 letter to tens of thousands of Southern Nevadans covered by Cigna health insurance did not contain good news: “Please be aware that effective April 30, 2013, University Medical Center … will no longer be a participating hospital in our network.”

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