The number of cases at the Lake Mead Health and Rehabilitation Center, a skilled nursing home, jumped from 19 to 60 on Tuesday and again to 69 on Wednesday, state data shows.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Nellis Air Force Base is hosting Red Flag exercises this week and next amid the pandemic — but this time with only U.S. aircraft involved.
Though The Heights of Summerlin is licensed as a skilled care nursing home, a new report and RJ interviews with current and former staff and patients paint a different picture — both before and after the coronavirus hit.
“This has been a longtime dream come true,” said Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who added that she hopes the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center will be replicated countywide and statewide.
A veteran who swung a wrench at a North Las Vegas VA social worker last year was not arrested for nearly two months because the agency delayed in reporting the incident to local police, a newly released federal investigation found.
After the closure of the $8 million ISO-Q complex at Cashman Field, Clark County and the city of Las Vegas are trying new strategies to protect the homeless from COVID-19.
The Thunderbirds grounded flying operations this week because of the coronavirus, after “a few of our team members recently tested positive,” Capt. Remoshay Nelson said in a statement Thursday.
Starting Saturday, eligible beneficiaries can access the exchange, commissary and food services. Access to the satellite pharmacy on the weekends will begin July 25.
As the VA Hospital in Reno unveils a memorial to the health care workers who died, questions linger about how they got the virus and whether they infected one another.
Officials at the base, which remains under a public health emergency, announced Thursday that Nellis is tightening restrictions because of Southern Nevada’s “sustained increase in the number of positive COVID-19 cases.”
More than $2.4 million in CARES Act funding will go to support Las Vegas Valley families in need of emergency food and shelter.
After a year, the hepatitis A outbreak in Clark County is over, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Friday.
The U.S. Army has been struggling to recruit during the pandemic. Next week, it embarks on its first nationwide virtual hiring event to recruit 10,000 new soldiers.
Six more residents and four employees at the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, the state announced Thursday.
Officials said Monday that the base has not been able to sustain the milestones necessary to move to Phase Four for at least two weeks.