LAS VEGAS – The Valley Health System Family Medicine Residency Program, partnered with Optum Nevada, has been recognized as the 2025 Leape Ahead Award Winner. This prestigious award, presented by the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL), recognizes organizations that have exhibited innovation in the creation of education or training programs to advance physician … [Read more...] about Valley Health System Family Medicine Residency Program Honored With 2025 Leape Ahead Award
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Quality Access + CostNevada Healthcare Checkup 2024
There used to be a joke about healthcare in Nevada that went something like this: Where do you go for the best healthcare in Nevada? The airport. The joke doesn't hold up. Today Nevadans don't need to leave home to access the healthcare they need. That's not to say the industry isn't facing challenges, especially in light of ongoing inflation and the lingering … [Read more...] about Quality Access + Cost
Healthcare Check-UpThe Technology and People that Keep Nevada Healthy
In 2021, estimated revenue from the U.S. healthcare industry was $2,709.9 billion. The industry focused on medical technology, research and innovation. Hospitals spend more than $852 billion on goods and services annually and generate more than $2.8 trillion in economic activity. Those numbers provide the big picture. At a granular level, the goal of healthcare is to keep … [Read more...] about Healthcare Check-Up
Around the StateApril 2022
Saint Mary’s Adds Rehab Unit Saint Mary’s has announced the addition of an inpatient acute rehabilitation unit (ARU). The unit is expected to open in 2023 and will be located in the existing hospital. The ARU will add 14 beds and include private rooms and recreational and therapy spaces. Nevada College Receives “First-Gen Forward” Designation The Center for … [Read more...] about Around the State
Healthcare Heroes2021
Corporate Sponsor It means the world to us to provide care to the communities where we live and work. At Southwest Medical, part of Optum Care, it’s something we have been doing for nearly 50 years. Across each passing decade, the health and well-being of our patients, our community and our team members continues to be our top priority. We want to see patients stay … [Read more...] about Healthcare Heroes
Healthcare in NevadaA Look at Hospitals in the Silver State
As Nevada’s hospital executives began gearing up quickly during March to deal with the challenges of the coronavirus, most of them could take some comfort from the knowledge that their institutions were working from a solid financial base. From Henderson to Reno, the combination of good financial performance and increasing demands presented by population growth … [Read more...] about Healthcare in Nevada
City of Henderson: City of the Future
At a time when technology makes daily leaps from innovation to reality, it’s people and the companies they form that bring the awe factor to life. In Henderson, both innovations and innovators are celebrated and cultivated, from the entrepreneurial spirit of downtown Henderson to the city being home to nationwide firsts. It’s people that transform a city into a City of the … [Read more...] about City of Henderson: City of the Future
Union Village Update to be Presented at May 23 Luncheon
HENDERSON – The Henderson Development Association (HDA), the economic development arm of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce, will host a luncheon featuring “Henderson’s Union Village Updates” presented by Sam Kaufman, CEO/managing director of Henderson Hospital and Craig Johnson of Union Village. The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, at Fiesta Henderson, … [Read more...] about Union Village Update to be Presented at May 23 Luncheon
Lean Construction: Slow-Growing Nevada Trend
On Nevada Day at the end of this month, Valley Health System will open Henderson Hospital, its sixth hospital in Southern Nevada. VHS’ parent company Universal Health Services Inc. began the 130-bed, 247,000-square-foot facility project in May 2014. At that time, the corporation and the group of design and construction service providers chosen for the endeavor set the primary … [Read more...] about Lean Construction: Slow-Growing Nevada Trend
Building Healthcare in Southern Nevada with the Clark County Medical Society
Stated right in the vision statement of Clark County Medical Society (CCMS) is the fact that the organization is as much an advocacy and education group for patients as for physicians and professionals working in the healthcare field. Chartered in 1955, CCMS is dedicated to advocating for physicians, patients and community health; to preserving the physician/patient … [Read more...] about Building Healthcare in Southern Nevada with the Clark County Medical Society
Trending in Henderson
From a company town to a city companies want to be in: Henderson has trended towards the feel of a hometown community while evolving to meet the needs of residents and businesses. In the 1930s, Henderson housed builders working on Boulder Dam. During World War II the Basic Magnesium Plant in Henderson processed magnesium. Those workers left after the war, but Henderson … [Read more...] about Trending in Henderson
Game Changers: Economic Development in Nevada
Nothing paints a clearer picture of the results of economic development than the Silver State. Nevada has transitioned from a state with the highest unemployment rates in the country to a state welcoming Tesla to its economy, breaking ground on a 12,000-home master planned community, launching one of the first-of-its-kind interactive medical communities with Union Village and … [Read more...] about Game Changers: Economic Development in Nevada
Personal Goals of High Net Worth Individuals; Desert Radiologists Receives ACR Award
Monthly Report Focused on “Personal Goals” of High Net Worth Individuals, Released by The Private Bank by Nevada State Bank The Private Bank by Nevada State Bank released the seventeenth edition of its High Net Worth Report series, with this month’s analysis focusing on the personal goals of high net worth individuals. [Read More...] Desert Radiologists Receives Prestigious … [Read more...] about Personal Goals of High Net Worth Individuals; Desert Radiologists Receives ACR Award
Hospitals in Nevada: An Industry in Transition
Some things that don’t change in healthcare: the importance of patient outcome, patient experience, patient compliance and patient ability to pay for services. Other things in healthcare are changing rapidly: bio-engineered medications to treat specific patients, imaging devices take the place of exploratory surgery, the model for healthcare, the way hospitals are reimbursed … [Read more...] about Hospitals in Nevada: An Industry in Transition
Healthcare in Nevada: Prognosis Encouraging
Nevada’s 2013 healthcare checkup reveals an industry under an unprecedented combination of pressures – little surprise there – but also one that is holding its own, moving quickly to adapt, gearing up to provide the best patient care possible, and looking confidently to the future. “Nevada’s healthcare industry is in a state of flux as a result of the changes occurring on a … [Read more...] about Healthcare in Nevada: Prognosis Encouraging