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NVSHP would like to welcome all Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Students and other Health Professionals to the Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 3rd, at the JA Nugget Casino in Sparks Nevada…There will be 4 hours of CE available and an exhibit showcase. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

• PPMI: Advancing Pharmacy Practice (Steve Nelson)
• Nevada Law CE (Nevada State Board of Pharmacy Staff)
• Updates on Biologic Therapy for Plaque Psoriasis (Stephen Lee)
• Naloxone Rescue 101 (Danielle Finn, Kelly Krieger, Heather Mooney)

Renown Health announced the completion of two major capital investment projects. Both are focused on patient care areas…Phase one of two planned renovations for the Renown Rehabilitation Hospital just wrapped up with the completion of 33 newly refurbished patient suites. The $1.55M investment is the first of two major investments planned for the facility…Also announced was the recent completion of a $3.39M renovation of 24 Labor and Delivery Suites. This investment follows a $3.45M renovation of three L&D operating rooms last year.

September 26th,..local and federal agencies will once again partner together to sponsor the Prescription Drug Round Up event in Washoe County. Since the first event in the fall of 2009, the Round Ups in Washoe County have collected nearly 1.5 million prescription pills. More than 210,000 of those pills were in categories that are commonly diverted and abused, such as painkillers, depressants and stimulants.

Round Up Locations September 26th 10:00am – 2:00pm:

• Raleys - 930 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village
• Raleys - 18144 Wedge Parkway, Reno
• Walgreens - 10370 N. McCarran Blvd, Reno
• Save Mart– 4995 Kietzke Lane, Reno
• CVS - 680 N. McCarran Blvd, Sparks
• Save Mart- 9750 Pyramid Hwy, Sparks

The drug drop boxes are available during regular business hours at the following locations:

• Reno Police Department – 455 E. 2nd Street, Reno
• Sparks Police Department – 1701 East Prater Way, Sparks
• Washoe County Sheriff’s Office – 911 Parr Blvd., Reno

Southern Nevada Health District will start offering the flu vaccine Monday at all of its centers...The health district is offering injectable, quadrivalent flu vaccine,...two influenza A viruses and two influenza B viruses. The cost of the vaccine is $41...The trivalent high-dose vaccine for people age 65 and over is $59...

..first medical residency program at MountainView Hospital has received accreditation, which means as many as 40 doctors-in-training will be working at the Las Vegas facility in July.,, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education had approved MountainView's Internal Medicine Residency Program…."Southern Nevada has been deficient in graduate medical education opportunities,"…"Many of our medical students,..who are from Las Vegas, had to leave the state to get their training…this will be a chance for those doctors to come back to Southern Nevada to start their training or continue their training and stay here and practice medicine.

Nevadans can rid their homes this weekend of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs...10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back, a partnership between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Nevada Attorney General's Office,is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at four Las Vegas Valley locations:

1. Metro's northwest area command station, 9850 W. Cheyenne Ave.
2. Metro's eastern area command, 6975 W. Windmill Parkway
3. North Las Vegas Police Department's northwest area command station, 3755 W. Washburn Road
4. Anthem Senior Center lobby, 2450 Hampton Road in Henderson

Reno Gazette-Journal filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of Sparks in an effort to compel them to release the names of medical marijuana business licensees...RGJ believes transparency in this matter is in the public’s interest…legal challenge is based on the belief that transparency in government…should prevail…lawsuit comes after an RGJ reporter filed a public records request with the city of Sparks for the business licenses related to medical marijuana facilities…The documents returned to the RGJ, however, included redacted names associated with the business licensees...Sparks'...assistant city attorney argued he was upholding state confidentiality laws protecting people involved with the marijuana industry.

Nevada Health CO-OP is struggling to the end…Nevada Division of Insurance…filed a petition in Clark County District Court to place the CO-OP into a conservation-rehabilitation receivership. If the court grants the petition, the division would take control of the CO-OP's assets, distribution of funds and administration… CO-OP was created by the federal Affordable Care Act...It borrowed $65.9 million from the federal government to get off the ground…It has not made profits to pay back the loans: The CO-OP reported a $19.3 million operating loss in 2014, and losses of $22.7 million from January through June…It's the fourth of 23 Obamacare CO-OPs to fail nationwide.

Encouraging results from a drug trial to reduce agitation often felt by Alzheimer's patients and led by the director (Dr. Jeffrey Cummings) of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas were published…Journal of the American Medical Association…study tested the drug AVP-923 in participants with Alzheimer's disease and moderate-to-severe agitation…drug's success so far in the DM/Q trial will prompt a clinical phase…"The effects from the DM/Q trial were remarkable and one of the strongest we've ever seen," said… director of the Ruvo center, who led the study. "Usually it takes at least three weeks to see a change, but in this case, our participants started experiencing benefits within one week."

Clinical integration aims to improve pediatric care in northern Nevada..School of Medicine's pediatrics office…has joined the Renown Medical Group. The change was effective on Sept. 1, 2015 and follows the 2014 partnership agreement...School of Medicine pediatricians will remain employed by the medical school. They will see patients under a professional services agreement with Renown, while Renown assumes responsibility for the administrative staff, mid-level practitioners, office space, equipment, scheduling and billing.