- Renown contract won’t limit WCSD workers to company providers (rgj.com)District: signs Renown as sole health-care provider (rgj.com)
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.
- First Las Vegas Area Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens (kolotv.com)Reno Marijuana Dispensary Opens Wednesday (kolotv.com)
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.
- Nevada Society of Health-System Pharmacists – Annual Meeting: Continuing Education – October 3rd , Reno (nvshp.org)
- Provider Status Update - Christopher Tolopeski, Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Management of Medications in a Hospice and Palliative Care Patient - Justin Kullgren, PharmD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, South University College of Pharmacy and Hospice and Palliative Care
- Melanoma: Considerations in Pharmacotherapy - Jacob Frick, PharmD, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Management of Bipolar Disorder - Heather Mooney-Magallon, PharmD, Mental Health and Ambulatory Care, Sierra Nevada VA HCS
- Local VA Touts Improvements (kolotv.com)
Reno Office of Veterans Benefits, administrators gave an update on their service to veterans… "The goal for claims process, the average time, a veteran would wait is 125 days…Our veterans in Nevada wait an average of 119 days,"…new technology, methods, and a can-do attitude by staff have made all the difference…more than 95% of first-time veteran enrollees can get an appointment the same day,...New clinics have opened …more physicians and others have been put on staff…. We …have a dedicated strategic planning effort to get care closer, out in the community,…
- Pharmacy clinics playing increasingly larger role in health care (reviewjournal.com)
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.
- Nevada Medicaid patients face loss of doctors (reviewjournal.com)
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,..
- Heroin Fuels Black Market Medicine In Northern Nevada (kolotv.com)
Traditional medicines like Suboxone and Methadone is (are) being sold on the streets to increase profits for addicts or drug dealers…With heroin's popularity back on the rise, addicts and dealers are using medicines to treat heroin addiction, like Suboxone and Methadone, to sell or trade on the black market..
- Millions in the red, a Nevada Obamacare insurer has failed (reviewjournal.com)
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.
- Renown Health: Preparing For Growth In Northern Nevada: Medical Facility Expansion In Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (renown.org)
Patients seeking medical care in and around the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center now have convenient access for many medical services…facility …provides the following services: occupational health, physicals for the Department of Transportation and urgent care…the addition of the Tesla gigafactory to the industrial park, the need for new services is only expected to grow…
- Researchers gain support and insights at the 2nd Annual Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Meeting (medicine.nevada.edu)
School of Medicine and UNLV co-administer grant to foster research that will improve health...mission is "to increase the quantity, quality, and number of successful NIH grant applications in clinical and translational research." Clinical research studies answer specific health questions. Translational research implements a "bench to bedside" process of applying laboratory knowledge to produce new drugs, devices and treatment options for patients.