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College of Southern Nevada has unveiled a plan to build a $43 million health sciences building at its Henderson campus...School officials aim to use the 70,000-square-foot building as a training facility for aspiring health care workers at CSN and Henderson-based Nevada State College. CSN President Michael Richards...will introduce the state-funded proposal to Nevada’s higher education board...to help craft a policy agenda for Southern Nevadans in the 2017 Legislature...Barbra Coffee, Henderson’s director of economic development, touted the CSN proposal as a way to help feed the region’s growing need for health care workers. She pointed to a hospital-building boom in the Las Vegas Valley as well as ongoing efforts to create medical schools at UNLV and Henderson-based Roseman University...

University of Nevada School of Medicine matched 64 of its graduating class with residency programs all over the country Friday morning. The reveal on where students will do residency programs was a surprise until each opened boxes listing programs...Kaleb Wartgow was one of the nearly 30,000 medical students in the U.S. matched to residency programs at hospitals around the country...But Wartgow...from the 2016 graduating class of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, is likely just one of a few absolutely sure he wants to someday practice family medicine in rural Nevada...He was one of 64 from...the...class of 2016 that found out Friday where they will spend the next few years of training. Wartgow, who grew up in Gardnerville and is a 2006 graduate of Douglas High, said he hopes to someday practice medicine in Smith Valley...

Las Vegas City Council narrowly passed a resolution Wednesday supporting the addition of a designated trauma center at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center, drawing criticism from the company that operates the other applicant hospitals...Centennial Hills, part of the Valley Health System, is one of three applicants being considered for designation as a Level 3 trauma center by the Southern Nevada Health District Board of Health, which meets March 24...MountainView Hospital and Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center, owned by the Hospital Corporation of America, are the other two applicants. Level 3 is the lowest level of designated trauma center recognized by the Southern Nevada Trauma System...Though the City Council isn’t involved in designations, Councilman Bob Beers, who leads the Board of Health, brought the resolution before the council for a vote of symbolic support.

The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is seeking participants with mild Alzheimer's disease to test a drug that has been shown to stop the progression of symptoms in some volunteers...about 250 facilities worldwide participating in a clinical trial called Emerge, which will examine the effects of experimental drug B11B037...The drug...has been shown to remove toxic protein buildup in the brain; researchers believe the buildup may be the cause of Alzheimer's...It has also been shown to stop the progression of symptoms...the Ruvo Center will enroll 10 participants, but more than 2,500 patients will be enrolled worldwide...Individuals participate in trial testing for free, but as with every new drug, there are potential health risks...Side affects of the drug have been shown to include headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and constipation...For further information, call the Ruvo Center at 702-483-6000 or study coordinator Monica Guerra at 702-701-7893.

Clark County health officials confirmed the second case of Zika virus disease statewide and in Southern Nevada on Monday, less than a week after the first case was reported...A woman who recently visited Brazil contracted the disease and became sick March 18, Southern Nevada Health District medical epidemiologist Tony Fredrick said...We do expect that we will report more positive cases in the future. However, it is important for the public to continue to understand that to date these cases have all been acquired outside of the United States...The health district has sent 22 total samples for testing, with 10 returned so far. Of those 10, two have been positive...

Sunrise Health System opened a new Urgent Care Extra location...at Camino Al Norte and Ann Road...The clinic...offers medical care for minor injuries and illnesses along with services like blood tests and X-rays...This is the 16th urgent care facility that Sunrise Health has opened in the Valley...

Roseman’s College of Nursing (Roseman University) recently expanded its offering of nursing degree programs with the creation of a 9-month RN to BSN program. The program is designed for nurses with an associate’s degree who desire a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree...the...new...program is structured to support working nurses in completing their baccalaureate nursing education while continuing their day-to-day responsibilities...The RN to BSN program offers nurses the opportunity to expand their clinical and theoretical skills and knowledge so they are better positioned to advance in the profession...Roseman University utilizes a block curriculum where students take only one class at a time, focus intently on that content area, and master the content before proceeding to the next block or course. The RN to BSN program consists of eight blocks each taught online by expert faculty with a myriad of clinical, educational and professional backgrounds. The program also includes two one-week, on-campus residencies in Henderson...

Less than two years after University Medical Center received $25.5 million in loans and eliminated hundreds of positions, the hospital is in the midst of a financial "rebirth," according to CEO Mason VanHouweling...At a meeting of the Clark County Commission...the county revealed UMC is expected to receive a $31 million subsidy — the same subsidy it received for the 2016 fiscal year and far less than it requested in years past...VanHouweling said the hospital has been able to "turn a financial corner"...As a facility that serves a large number of indigent patients, the hospital requires at least some funding from the county to function...It was never designed to generate the type of revenue that private hospitals today can generate...UMC is planning to modernize and remodel infrastructure at its main campus as well as at its primary and quick care facilities. The hospital also plans to move to a new electronic health records system and upgrade technology in operating rooms...the hospital is carefully watching for any possible reductions to disproportionate share hospital, or DSH payments, which help to offset the costs of care given to indigent patients. DSH payments are expected to be reduced nationwide, which would hurt UMC.

...the new Southern Nevada Health District facility hasn’t completed its makeover yet...The 110,000-square-foot space, which formerly housed a Target store, officially debuted during an open house Tuesday. The building is in the final stages of an $11 million renovation that began in July...It had to be accessible. It had to be within an area where we have a lot of the population that we service affordable...It had to be a building that was going to be able to hold all of our services, and it had to be affordable...Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman declared Tuesday Southern Nevada Health District Day and complimented the district for its central location...Services including family planning, sexual health and epidemiology...

A board composed partially of representatives from local trauma centers recommended not designating any of three new applicants as a Level 3 trauma center...The Regional Trauma Advisory Board, which makes a recommendation to the Southern Nevada Health District Board of Health on trauma center applications, voted to reject approval of authorization for the Level 3 trauma centers sought by Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center, Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Mountain View Hospital...The hospitals applied in the fall to receive Level 3 designation, the lowest trauma designation recognized by the Southern Nevada Trauma System. Level 3 centers provide "definitive care to the less severely injured patients" and work to support any Level 1 and 2 facilities in the trauma system, which can provide care to more severely injured patients...UMC Department of Trauma Services Medical Director John Fildes...suggested the formation of a needs-based assessment task force, which would review the community's trauma needs and assess the impact of adding new trauma centers in the future. He suggested all three applicants be invited to become part of the task force.