County votes to disband UMC Hospital Advisory Board

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 | 2:23 p.m.

A Clark County board established two years ago to take some monitoring of University Medical Center out of the hands of county commissioners is being dissolved. At Tuesday’s county commission meeting, commissioners unanimously approved disbanding the 11-member UMC Hospital Advisory Board. In turn, the county will ask the Legislature next year to let the county form a semi-autonomous board that would be able to conduct its business behind closed doors. The objective of the new board, UMC administrators have said, is to be able to plan without the valley's private hospitals from taking the UMC's plans and starting them before ...

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By peacelily

Dec. 4, 2012

9:46 p.m.

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The eventual farewell to the last of the non-corporate owned, non-private equity owned hospitals in the Las Vegas valley!

Should we expect a tax decrease in return when it happens? LOL