- Stories
- A century later, openess still gets tepid embrace
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- A century ago, Dr. Ernest Amory Codman, a Harvard surgeon, led a one-man campaign for health care transparency and in the process became a “martyr of quality.”
- Mistake admitted, respect earned
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Dr. David Ring had just finished operating on the hand of a 65-year-old woman when he made a discovery that two years later still brings tears to his eyes.
- Admitting harm protects patients
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- As Nevada legislators debate this week whether to require hospitals to publicly report when they harm patients, they could learn a lot from Paul Levy’s experience in pulling back the veil of hospital secrecy.
- Doctor linked to patient deaths suing out of spite, witness says
- Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011
- A nationally known pain specialist says she’s become the target of intimidation for speaking out against a Henderson doctor who has been linked by authorities to multiple deaths and lost his license to prescribe controlled substances.
- Ex-UMC manager punished after patient records leak
- Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
- One key question remained after a man recently pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining private patient information from University Medical Center: Who was the hospital employee who conspired to sell the information?
- Doctor: Taking care of ourselves will enrich the nation as a whole
- Monday, Jan. 31, 2011
- Dr. Michael Roizen believes that America is at a crisis point because of chronic diseases. But it can be reversed by healthier living.
- Double ouch: Doctor operates on wrong knee
- Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011
- Steve Anderson immediately noticed a problem when he awoke from surgery at North Vista Hospital on Aug. 13, 2009.
- Decades after airline crash, lessons learned applied in operating room
- Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011
- United Airlines Flight 173 was approaching Portland, Ore., when the pilot realized something was wrong with the landing gear.
- Cutting the insurers out
- Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011
- Dr. Kevin Petersen’s peers thought he was crazy when he started offering cash-pay surgery to uninsured patients about four years ago. But about 700 no-insurance surgeries later, he’s opting out of all of his remaining insurance contracts. Petersen went to medical school at Tufts University, has been licensed in Nevada since 2000, and has performed about 25,000 surgeries.
- Inspection to determine if MountainView loses Medicare payments
- Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011
- A recent inspection at MountainView Hospital will determine whether the facility loses its Medicare payments, a staggering financial blow.
Blog Entries
- 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
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