This summer, the University of Nevada School of Medicine opened a patient care center on St. Rose Parkway in Henderson. If you didn’t realize the state’s only public medical school had clinics that are open to all, you’re way out of the loop. The Henderson location is UNSOM’s 14th in Southern Nevada.
The new one’s big selling point is coordinated care, provided through multiple services under one roof. In addition to family medicine, pediatrics and women’s health, the more than 30 in-house physicians at the Henderson center cover specialties such as adult allergy/immunology and geriatrics, as well as surgery. In other words, you can go there for checkups, screenings and shots, but also for arthritis, asthma — even breast cancer. There’s also a variety of health-management services, such as nutrition counseling and blood pressure control.
All physicians on staff are board-certified and affiliated with the university. Although third- and fourth-year UNSOM students do quite a bit of their clinical training in Las Vegas, a spokeswoman says they won’t be doing any of it at the Henderson center in the foreseeable future. For now, the focus is on getting the place up and running smoothly.
It is taking appointments, however, and accepts most non-HMO insurance plans (for a complete list, click here).
To read about plans for another public medical school for Nevada, see “ The power of two ” in the August issue of Desert Companion.
