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Six Southern Nevada physicians have been honored by a nonprofit organization committed to improving access and delivery of medical care in the region. This year's Inspired Excellence in Health Care awards from Las Vegas HEALS (Health Education Advocacy Leadership of Southern Nevada) go to…

1. Joseph Adashek - Desert Perinatal Associates, Summerlin, Southern Hills and Valley hospitals, Angel Flight
2. Rutu Ezhuthachan – United Healthcare, Southern Nevada Immunization and Health Coalition, Immunize Nevada
3. Mitchell Forman - founding dean Touro Univerity (University) College of Osteopathic Medicine
4. Oscar Goodman Jr. - Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Roseman University of Health Sciences
5. David Steinberg - Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging, American College of Nuclear Medicine
6. Dylan Wint - Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada and the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center…announced a partnership to provide treatment and cooperation in clinical trials…USC Norris brand joins the Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Hospital and other distinguished names affiliated with health care providers in Southern Nevada… Such partnerships widen the scope of therapies and procedures available in Southern Nevada..

Southern Nevada's first dispensary now open after months of red tape, medical marijuana cultivators are facing growing pains as they grapple with the state's strict testing standards…growers…failed…led to pounds of marijuana being destroyed,..Dispensaries report several batches of cannabis failing to meet the required levels for pesticides, mycotoxins or heavy metals,… Nevada's toughest-in-the-nation standards for marijuana quality are working.

University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno has been training students in the Las Vegas Valley for more than 20 years. But the creation of the UNLV School of Medicine will result in the Reno school moving most of its operations north,..deans… will encourage their students to consider a career as a primary care physician because…The goal of both schools is to develop programs to address Nevada's doctor shortage. The state consistently ranks near the bottom of number of physicians per capita, and the medical schools, have been touted as a key component to boost the number of doctors serving Nevadans.

UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have been awarded an $11.1 million federal grant to advance the understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases…is aimed at increasing knowledge of dementia-related and age-associated degenerative disorders…will create a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence,..part of a program that promotes the study of medicine, molecular biology and public health.

In Northern Nevada, the medical marijuana industry is ramping up. New cultivation facilities, dispensaries and producers are coming online, and with that, one type of ancillary business must take on a vital part of the process: testing laboratories…One of these businesses, a small testing facility which sits in the heart of Sparks, is called 374 Labs… When it comes to medical marijuana, Nevada requires business to run a gauntlet of testing requirements ranging from mold and microbials to heavy metals and pesticides, not to mention the tetrahydrocannabinol..

MountainView Hospital…announced a $90 million expansion project….will include the addition of 64 beds, the expansion of women's services, the upgrade of the neonatal intensive care unit, the expansion of the emergency department and a new medical office building…When the expansion is complete, MountainView will grow to a 400-bed hospital,…Construction is expected to take 18 months.

• Amendment of Nevada Administrative Code 453.510 - Schedule 1 - The proposed amendment to NAC 453.510 will add newly identified synthetic drugs to the list of controlled substances listed on Schedule 1, and provides for other matters properly related thereto.
• A REGULATION relating to pharmacy; revising provisions governing the licensure of a third-party logistics provider; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
• A REGULATION relating to the practice of pharmacy; requiring certain entities collecting controlled substances to provide certain notification and a copy of a certain federally required form to the State Board of Pharmacy; clarifying standards for the disposal of controlled substances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
• A REGULATION relating to pharmacy; requiring, under certain circumstances, an outsourcing facility to obtain a license from the State Board of Pharmacy as a manufacturer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nevada Division of Insurance said…that it has approved 2016 health insurance rates for individual and small-group coverage…For small businesses and their employees, premiums will rise an average of 5 percent,…Consumers who buy a plan through the state's Nevada Health Link insurance exchange will see an average premium gain of 8.7 percent. Individual buyers off of the exchange will pay 9.6 percent more…

Henderson City Council approved a medical marijuana dispensary…that plans to open on Eastern Avenue, south of the 215 Beltway…The Source Henderson…fourth dispensary…None have opened yet. Clark County has only one dispensary in business, Euphoria Wellness in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.