From new laws to forthcoming medical facilities and programs, here's the latest on Nevada's healthcare system.

Hats off to the nonprofits, which labor under rules and regulations requiring them to operate according to missions strictly educational, spiritual, or otherwise not commercial. Without them, our community would contain more suffering than it does.But there’s another type of do-gooder, one less frequently recognized: The for-profit company whose business plan is inextricable from its benevolent purpose. Unlike companies that invest in a corporate social responsibility program and call it a day, the following five Nevada businesses exist, in whole or in part, to make the world a better place. In these funding-challenged times, they offer an alternative approach to caring for Earth and its people. Here’s to them, too!