Marshall Allen

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Federal government threatens to pull Medicare payments to UMC: Hospital working on ER issues to ensure funding; Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010; The federal government is threatening to halt Medicare payments to University Medical Center — a potentially devastating sanction — because of its failure to care for an uninsured pregnant woman in its emergency room.
Free medical clinic opens with goal of increasing access to care: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; For all the controversy over its proposal to provide free health care in a public park, Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada quietly opened its clinic doors last week.
UMC admits to prolonged patient privacy leak: Patient data were compromised for three months, hospital says; Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; University Medical Center officials said Monday that personal information of traffic accident victims was likely leaked from its trauma center for more than three months, and stopped only after the Las Vegas Sun told the hospital about the breach.
UMC: Patient info leaks likely date back to July: Monday, Jan. 25, 2010; For more than three months someone at University Medical Center illegally leaked the personal information of traffic accident victims — a breach of social security numbers, birth dates and more that only stopped when the Las Vegas Sun contacted the hospital about it.
Attending to UMC's woes: Reid, Rogers talk about why public hospital’s business model is failing, and why now is the right time to fix it; Friday, Jan. 22, 2010; Rory Reid and Jim Rogers are hoping the state’s struggling medical school can help transform Clark County’s failing public hospital into a world-class teaching hospital akin to what can be found at Johns Hopkins University. The hospital has been in the red for years and lost $71 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Collaboration could increase training of doctors in Nevada: Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010; Nevada Cancer Institute and the Nevada System of Higher Education announced a formal agreement this week that will allow collaboration on things like faculty appointments and creating specialty training programs.
Nurses union wins election at MountainView Hospital: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010; Nurses at MountainView Hospital are selecting leaders and assembling a bargaining committee after a decisive victory to be represented by the California Nurses Association.
Teaching hospital is slightly different from one that teaches medical students, residents: Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010; People may be puzzled by the plan announced Wednesday to transform University Medical Center into a teaching hospital.
UMC lacks way to log patients’ records: Health Division probe follows reported leaks of private data; Friday, Jan. 8, 2010; University Medical Center has no system to track patient records, leading to numerous instances in which hospital paperwork containing Social Security numbers, birth dates and other private data goes missing, a state investigation found.
State records suggest UMC had pattern of refusing care: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010; The case of a pregnant woman who was refused treatment at the University Medical Center emergency room is the latest in a handful of cases in which the public hospital has refused to treat patients, according to records obtained by the Sun. UMC has at least twice since 2005 violated federal law that requires it to provide at least minimal emergency care, according to the state health division.

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Nurses surrender licenses: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The endoscopy clinic at the root of the hepatitis outbreak is fined $3,000: Tuesday, March 4, 2008; The state of Nevada assessed the maximum possible fine on a clinic that
engaged in dangerous injection practices that put 40,000 people at risk of
hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV -- $3,000.
Another endoscopy center closed, this one in Henderson: Tuesday, March 4, 2008; This morning Henderson city officials suspended the business license of Gastroenterology Center of Nevada at 2610 West Horizon Ridge Parkway, citing a public health emergency and failure to allow a business license officer access to the building.
AG weighs in on Sierra-UnitedHealth merger: Monday, Feb. 25, 2008; Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, in a complaint filed jointly with the U.S. Justice Department, will require a $15 million charitable contribution of UnitedHealth Group in order for the company to merge with Sierra Health Services, the state's largest health insurance company.
Former UMC boss indicted: Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008; Former University Medical Center boss Lacy Thomas today was indicted on 10 counts of theft and misconduct by a public official.
Patients can now book appointments, see test results and more, online: Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008
Flu got ya down, Bunky?: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008
Edwards camp closing up shop: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008
Democrats try to sort it out from headquarters: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008
Edwards, wrapping it up: Friday, Jan. 18, 2008