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The Valley Health System has a new freestanding emergency department — its second in the Las Vegas Valley...ER at Blue Diamond opened...Sept. 30...“Really, this area of the community didn’t have anything with this level of care,” said Kevin Scott, manager of ER at Blue Diamond...Freestanding emergency departments can improve access to care and are more likely to be in affluent areas...In May, the Clark County Commission adopted a new rule related to freestanding emergency rooms as a result of concerns about facilities unaffiliated with existing hospital systems...Effective June 1, freestanding emergency rooms seeking a business license must accept Medicare and Medicaid, and be in compliance with federal law that requires emergency departments to treat patients regardless of ability to pay...READ MORE

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...

Las Vegas Valley's immature health care system is experiencing a prolonged growth spurt. In the aftermath of the launch of UNLV's medical school, last month MountainView Hospital got word that its internal medicine residency program had been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education…. A dearth of residency programs has greatly limited the state's ability to attract and retain doctors… Many of our medical students, or other students who are from Las Vegas, had to leave the state to get their training…"This is a significant step forward in the development of medical education in the Las Vegas Valley," said MountainView CEO Chris Mowan…Thanks to MountainView and HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) for making it happen..

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.

A nip here, a tuck there — Las Vegas Valley’s medical industry has been evolving for years...And as the region continues to advertise to tourists as a destination for medical services, one sector in particular has blossomed: plastic surgery…Las Vegas has become an international hot spot for plastic surgery, with people traveling to find the doctor who best suits them. That means local doctors are working to keep up with international trends and the latest innovations...For procedures that don’t require hospitalization, patients often book vacations and consider surgery just one of the many activities they’ll do while in town...Another potential benefit of a Las Vegas procedure for tourists is privacy. Clients who don’t want friends or family to know about their procedures or see them with bandages and bruises can enjoy the city, stay for follow-ups and take in the sights without running into someone they know...

A new hospital model is coming to the Las Vegas Valley...Dignity Health...plans four smaller neighborhood hospitals across the Las Vegas Valley in the next two years...The medical centers will have six to eight inpatient beds each, compared with the 120 to 330 beds inside Dignity's existing local campuses. They'll also house primary-care offices, full emergency departments, diagnostic imaging services and lab services. They'll cost about $25 million each to build...The idea is to shift less critically ill patients away from Dignity Health's regional acute-care centers...Dignity Health officials also hope to bring more primary care into underserved neighborhoods..."We want to focus our existing hospitals on much more complex care, and giving that care in an excellent way,"..."We're going to reach a point where our larger hospital platforms are going to be where you have people with catastrophic or major illnesses. A lot of people come to emergency departments with problems that may not meet the pure, clinical definition of life-threatening injury. We want to create a more streamlined way of giving them care."...Each hospital will create more than 100 permanent jobs. They're scheduled to open by summer 2017.

A man police say posed as a doctor and treated people at an east Las Vegas Valley house has been arrested, and authorities are trying to find people who went to him for medical or dental care…Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas police and the FBI are requesting information from people who received services…The person who used the building identified himself as Rick Van Thiel or "Dr. Rick," health officials said, but he is not licensed to practice medicine.

Children in the Las Vegas Valley who have sickle cell disease soon will be able to visit a one-stop hub for medical care and social services to help them cope with the painful, sometimes debilitating blood disorder...The new Sickle Cell Treatment Center will open at the Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada, 3121 S. Maryland Parkway, by the end of October, according to Dr. Nik Abdul Rashid, director of the sickle cell center...The center will provide patients with access to a multidisciplinary team, including doctors, a social worker and a clinical research associate, who can help with everything from psychological assessments to communicating with a child’s school about the impact of the disease, Rashid said...the new center will help ensure kids with sickle cell disease receive adequate care while also giving parents the information and resources they need to be the best caregivers they can be...

The drugstore arms race on the Strip is ratcheting up another notch...Workers are building a roughly 20,190-square-foot CVS store near the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, in front of Bally’s. The two-story property will have a pharmacy and is scheduled to open in May…It’s the latest Walgreens or CVS to land in the famed tourist-packed casino corridor, where the drugstores make big money — and pay big rents — selling medicine, food, alcohol and such Vegas-themed souvenirs as shot glasses, margarita cups, ash trays and gallon-sized flasks...This lucrative slice of commerce on the boulevard is only growing...CVS opened a store last year in the new three-story mall at Treasure Island and now has four outposts in the resort corridor, including the one at Bally’s.

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.