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    COVID-19 Testing: Who Needs It?

    Aug 06, 2020

    The last week of July, more than a dozen travel executives, including the president and COO of the Venetian and Palazzo

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    UMC Asks Only People With Symptoms, Exposure Get Tested For Coronavirus

    Jul 24, 2020

    University Medical Center is now asking members of the public without COVID-19 symptoms, or exposure to a confirmed case of the disease, not to make an appointment at one of its large drive-thru testing sites. 

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    UMC To Start Testing Admitted Patients For Coronavirus

    May 29, 2020

    University Medical Center in Las Vegas said it has begun testing every admitted patient for COVID-19.

    The state’s only public hospital and Level 1 trauma care center says it’s also offering testing to patients undergoing elective surgeries and outpatient procedures.

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    Talking With UMC Doctors On The Front Line Of COVID-19

    May 17, 2020

    As of May 17, Nevada had just shy of 7,000 cases of coronavirus that led to 350 deaths.

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    UMC Prepares For Highest Coronavirus Patient Load Yet

    Apr 10, 2020

    University Medical Center is preparing for a surge of coronavirus patients in the coming weeks.  

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    Las Vegas Hospital Advisory After Mass Shooting Draws Scrutiny

    Apr 02, 2018
    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A review of medical responses after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.
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    UMC Faces Uncertainty Over Uncertain Future of ACA

    Jan 04, 2017

    A few months ago, the Clark County Commission approved a request by the University Medical Center to spend $24 million on a new patient records

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    Feeling a little inside-out at the UMC emergency room

    Apr 03, 2015

    His back ached, and then something snapped (his cell-cam).

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    UMC Gets Interim CEO

    Jan 26, 2015
    University Medical Center officials say the hospital's chief operations officer will be interim CEO, filling the vacant top spot since Lawrence Barnard...
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    Officials In Laughlin Looking For Alternative To University Medical Center

    May 19, 2014

    Laughlin residents will soon lose medical care options. University Medical Center is on track to close its Quick Care Clinic in Laughlin on May 30

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    Clark County Picks Board To Steer UMC

    Dec 04, 2013

    The Clark County Commission approved eight members of a board to oversee the financially troubled University Medical Center. One prospective member of the board removed himself from consideration

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    Following Scandal, Psychiatric Patients Crowd Local Emergency Rooms

    May 06, 2013

    Disruption at Rawson-Neal following the busing scandal has caused a backlog of psychiatric cases at local emergency rooms. Last week, University Medical Center declared an "internal disaster" due to the large volume of mentally ill patients. The state placed a psychologist at the hospital to help manage the influx. Is it enough? And how can the hospital help open beds for patients with physical problems?

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    The Future Of University Medical Center

    Sep 14, 2012
    University Medical Center has been struggling with its role as the "safety net" hospital for some years. The hospital is saddled with indigent care and emergency care that other hospitals will not do and has problems making money because of the administrative tangle of being a county operation. So what should happen with the hospital? Sell it? Subsidize it? Or even close it?
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    The Berkley Ethics Investigation

    Jul 11, 2012

    Congresswoman Shelley Berkley will face further scrutiny from the House Ethics Committee. The watchdog decided to formally investigate allegations that the Las Vegas congresswoman lobbied to influence the Administration's decisions about kidney medicine at UMC in ways that helped her husband's medical practice. She has also sponsored legislation that improves federal support for kidney services. So will this hurt Berkley's campaign for Nevada's US Senate seat?

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    Is Las Vegas nursing in Critical Condition?

    Sep 15, 2011

    The last decade for Las vegas has seen a boom in population.  And, that growth was pobably a good thing for healthcare because more people coming in demanded more options.  But, is Las Vegas a good place to be a nurse when the pay may not be as good or the hours are tough or the nurse to patient ration is high?  We talk to a panel of nurses to better understand life in the valley's hospitals.  We also look at how a nurses' struggles translates to patient care.

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    Dr. Jay Coates, Trauma Surgeon

    Jul 25, 2011

    Jay Coates has seen some pretty amazing things at his job: a man with a giant metal pipe jammed in his neck.  Another man mauled by a tiger.  A boy speared on his bike handlebars.  That's because Dr. Jay Coates is a trauma surgeon at the UMC Trauma Center.  So what does it take to be a trauma surgeon?  What's it like when you're faced with saving people on the brink of death?  Dr. Coates joins us to share some of his harrowing stories. Rebroadcast

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    UMC's New CEO

    Jul 14, 2011
    After several controversies and harsh criticism from the public and County Commission, UMC CEO, Kathy Silver announced her resignation from the county's only public hospital in May.
     
    Brian Brannman, who served as COO under Silver was announced as her replacement on July 1. Brannman's experience in the medical field include stints as president and Commanding Officer of Navy Medicine West and Commanding Officer of Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif. Brian Brannman steps into a position where his two predecessors battled massive budget problems and a County Commission that's struggled to find a way to make the hospital fiscally solvent while still providing indigent care for the public.
     
    Brian Brannman joins us to discuss his vision for UMC's future.
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    Dr. Jay Coates, Trauma Surgeon

    Jun 14, 2011
    Jay Coates has seen some pretty amazing things at his job: a man with a giant metal pipe jammed in his neck.  Another man mauled by a tiger.
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    UMC and Biotronik Respond

    Apr 28, 2011

    The University Medical Center (UMC) hospital faced a lot of heat this year, between budget cuts and a Las Vegas Sun series criticizing its quality of care.  A recent New York Times piece even triggered an investigation into what motivated its choice of heart implant companies.  UMC's CEO, Kathy Silver, and Biotronik (the implant) company give their explanations, and talk about UMC's future.

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    UNR and UMC

    Apr 20, 2011
    As the Clark County Commission struggles with how to turn around the fiscally struggling UMC, one idea that's come up is making the hospital a world class teaching institute. To do that, the commission wants a greater commitment from the state's medical school, which is located at the University of Nevada, Reno. But, recent talks between the school and county commissioners has resulted in some heated debate and commissioners aren't convinced UNR is totally committed to helping UMC improve. We'll talk with a Clark County Commissioner and the former chancellor of higher education about the relationship between UMC and UNR.
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    UMC and Biotronik

    Apr 15, 2011
    A small company called Biotronik provides 95% of all pacemakers to UMC.  So why does Biotronik hold the market on pacemakers, when the company only reaches 5% of the market nationally?  Investigators claim the company hired UMC doctors as consultants, paying them $5,000 fees per month.
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    UMC -- a Research and Teaching Hospital?

    Feb 28, 2011
    After struggling financially for the past couple of years the Clark County Commission wants to make University Medial Center a cutting edge research and teaching hospital.

    So how will that happen?

    That's what the newly appointed 11-member UMC advisory panel hopes to help the County Commission find out.

    We talk to members of the newly formed board.
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    When A Surgery Goes Wrong

    Oct 06, 2010
    What happens when a surgery goes wrong? Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen takes us inside the hospital horror stories.

    Who is at fault: the doctor? The hospital? Or are mistakes inevitable when it comes to life-and-death medicine? Have you had a bad experience under the knife? Whose fault was it? And where should surgeons focus on improvement?
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