Amid a statewide health care shortage, the Southern Nevada Health District plans to begin offering primary care and dental services at its 280 S. Decatur Blvd. location.
Jessie Bekker
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Jessie Bekker joined the Review-Journal in 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, she left the snowy Midwest for the desert heat to cover health.
Friends of the Winslows have partnered with Southern Hills Hospital and the nonprofit Chariot of Fire to host a hot air balloon fundraiser Saturday to help cover the costs of surgery and therapy for 4-year-old Lexi Winslow.
Dr. Kevin Menes, an emergency physician at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center who took patients in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, gave a keynote speech at the Emergency Nurses Association’s first regional symposium Thursday at Planet Hollywood Thursday.
The Southern Nevada Health District updated its flu totals Monday for the season, raising the death toll by 22 to 48. That’s more than triple the 13 flu deaths confirmed during last’ year’s flu season.
Wongu University of Oriental Medicine, at 8630 S. Eastern Ave., is offering the services, plus a free tea sampling, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on a walk-in or appointment basis.
A national chain of nonprofit treatment centers is threatening to close its clinic for drug addicts and the mentally ill in Las Vegas by the end of May amid a funding dispute with state and Southern Nevada governments and hospitals.
At its second meeting Wednesday, the Governor’s Opioid State Action Accountability Task Force was told of progress being made in four key areas identified as priorities at the panel’s first meeting in September.
Personal and protected health information, including names, addresses, dates of birth and death and insurance information could have been leaked.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report released late Monday found Nevada was tied as the least prepared state in the nation for health disasters, including disease outbreaks, natural disasters and terrorism.
Crews are replacing heating and ventilation equipment in the Grant Sawyer state offices in Las Vegas after a report cited a possible link between leaks in the system and the presence of low concentrations of mold in the building’s dust.
A different kind of special effects are planned for a show running at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday.
Little Jason Sebron donned his black flat-bill baseball cap on a recent Wednesday — and for the first time, he didn’t scramble to take it off.
Bobby Ramos has been bitten three times in his 24-year career with the U.S. Postal Service in the Las Vegas Valley. Now he shares the knowledge gained through those encounters and other tips with fellow employees.
Alongside her two youngest sons, Ricardo Avelar-Gomez, 18, and Eric Avelar-Gomez, 13, Cecilia Gomez, 46, called her experience “nothing short of traumatic.”
Cecilia Gomez walked into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Las Vegas last month for what she thought would be a routine interview. Instead she was taken into custody and ordered deported.