Level 3 trauma centers are glorified emergency rooms that charge more — and create risks for complications.
Paul Harasim
Sixty-six-year-old Terry Powers has a simple message for baby boomers: Stay active.
Henderson family barely avoids tragedy after misdiagnosis by paramedics sent 11-year-old boy to Level III trauma center instead of UMC’s Level I facility.
The federal government and military bombard civilians with about 4,000 acronyms and abbreviations — and one brave librarian tracks them all.
When Southern Nevada Health District board members vote later this month on whether more Level III trauma centers should be opened in Clark County, what happened to Giulian Grasso should be taken into consideration.
It’s becoming an increasingly outdated stereotype that older people fear and stay away from technology. Most baby boomers have gotten past their initial reservations and are avid users of smartphones and other devices to keep up with families and other news as well as shop.
David Ballou and Jamie Lee Sprague-Ballou, who were married in California in 2013, are a unique Las Vegas couple.
In 2002 University Medical Center lost more than $20 million — a year later it was losing money at a rate of more than $2 million per month.
The first time I met Muhammad Ali, “The Greatest” grabbed my hat and said it looked better on him than me.
According to federal statistics, the volunteer rate for 74 million baby boomers is 33 percent — 5 points above the national average of 28 percent. Studies show that upon leaving the workforce, many boomers look for meaningful volunteer opportunities.
Spring Valley Town Advisory Board meeting attendees probably don’t know that the panel’s chairman, John Getter, was nominated to be the first reporter in space.
It would have been so easy for Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, to do the right thing during his 20-minute speech at the recent Rolling Thunder motorcycle run in Washington, D.C.
As Lanne Tuohy tilts her head back in her wheelchair to see how high her Queen Victoria agave plant has grown in the last 24 hours, a cloudy day seems to become as bright as her smile.
In less than three years in Las Vegas, Dr. Douglas Fraser’s penchant for planning, coupled with the ability to improvise when, say, an artery ruptures, has made him a dynamic force in emergency medicine in Las Vegas.