New AIDS unit OK’d by county

Friday, Sept. 24, 1999 | 9:58 a.m.

The Clark County Health District board approved Thursday a proposal to acquire 5,500 square feet of office space for its HIV/AIDS clinic and add that project and two others to the revised 1999-2000 budget.

The space will be provided by the Rancho Medical Center, 2300 Rancho Drive, and will be located near other HIV/AIDS-related agencies and organizations.

The district's current facility to address the deadly disease is a 2,000- square-foot modular unit on the east perimeter of the health district offices at 625 Shadow Lane.

The space was requested because the district's current HIV/AIDS clinic "no longer adequately accommodates the last five years of expanded staff and client growth," according to a petition from Chief Health Officer Dr. Donald Kwalick and Director of Administrative Services David Rowles. To pay for that space, as well as the 8,500-square-foot North Las Vegas Public Health Center and 72,000 square feet of new building construction at the Shadow Lane complex, the budget had to be upped by more than $3.5 million.

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