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All 11,000 workers, retirees and family members insured by the Washoe County School District are being put on health plans with Renown Health starting in January, but their coverage won’t be restricted to Renown-branded facilities and providers, company representatives emphasized this week following concerns about the new contract.

CVS opened its first local Minute Clinic in 2007 in its pharmacy on the Strip near the Monte Carlo. To date, it has 11 Minute Clinics throughout Nevada, eight in Las Vegas and three in the Reno/Sparks area. All clinics are open seven days a week with weekend and early evening hours available...Walgreens has 13 clinics in the Las Vegas area, none in Northern Nevada. And like CVS, its clinics are open seven days a week with similar hours of operation. From 50 clinics in 2007, the pharmacy has grown that number to 400 nationally.

After several months of delays, the first store to sell medical marijuana legally..is open for business...Euphoria Wellness opened Monday morning several miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip… vast majority of the state's 9,542 patient cardholders live in the Las Vegas area.

Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah will close for business at noon this Friday, August 21st due to financial issues…. NRMC has struggled financially for the past several years. The hospital operations cannot be sustained any longer with expenses greater than revenues. In an effort to save the hospital we have tried to arrange partnerships/affiliations with other healthcare operations. These efforts have been unsuccessful due to our small size and remote location. We are out of options, time and funding."

Clark County's top law enforcement officer told a room full of marijuana business owners Thursday that he wants to work with them…Sheriff Joe Lombardo,...made light of the historic nature of his appearance at a lunch meeting of the Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Association…sheriff's in a marijuana (meeting)," he said to laughter…. his two biggest concerns are the prospect of people driving under the influence and the potential for robberies or thefts given the cash-heavy nature of the business…

Billions of dollars are at stake in a Las Vegas trial that centers on two men who were diagnosed with bladder cancer after taking the diabetes drug Actos… Robert Eglet… represents Mary Iorio, the widow of Maurice Iorio.. filed a product liability case… against Takeda Pharmaceutical Co… Thousands of plaintiffs across the country have filed product liability lawsuits against Takeda. The company is accused of failing to inform consumers and medical professionals about the risk of bladder cancer...

Thousands of Nevada Medicaid patients may soon have to find new doctors…One of two managed care organizations that contract with the state..is about to lose a large network of primary care physicians and specialists…HealthCare Partners of Nevada — confirmed that it will withdraw from Amerigroup Community Care on Nov. 30,..

Clark County's first marijuana dispensary opened for business Monday. Legal retail sales of pot commenced… Euphoria Wellness…the first medical marijuana… was commercially grown…More than 6,000 registered medical marijuana patients live in Clark County. There still isn't enough supply for all of them…considering Nevada dispensaries are allowed to sell to registered marijuana patients from other states, buyers can expect a limited supply for the near future.

Nevada's health insurance exchange is losing its only locally based carrier. Nevada Health CO-OP, a nonprofit insurer created by the Affordable Care Act and federally funded to offer health coverage through the Nevada Health Link marketplace, said Wednesday that it cannot make enough money to stay in business after Jan. 1…second year of high claims costs and limited growth projections for enrollment made it "clear" the insurer would have a hard time providing "quality care at reasonable rates" in 2016.

Nye County Emergency Management Office…has developed an emergency response plan to support the needs of the communities directly affected by the closure…"Our number one priority is to ensure the long-term safety to the residents of this community..."

NCEM said it has executed the following procedures to mitigate some of the impact the NRMC (Nye Regional Medical Center ) closure:

1. Life Guard Air Ambulance service has brought in an additional plane to double its air ambulance capability
2. Nye County has reportedly reached agreements with neighboring Nevada counties and Inyo County in California to meet the Nye county ambulances half way to cut patient transport times. The following locations have also been included in the response plan: Battle Mountain, Banner-Churchill, Esmeralda, Goldfield, Beatty, Bishop and Hawthorne
3. Nye County is reportedly in negotiations with Humboldt General Hospital for an additional mutual aid ambulance crew