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Mar 14
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Nathan Adelson Hospice Names Rosamari McNulty as Vice President for Employee and Volunteer Solutions

By | Press Releases, Uncategorized

Carole Fisher, president and chief executive officer of Nathan Adelson Hospice, announced today that Rosamari McNulty has been promoted to the position of vice president for Employee and Volunteer Solutions at the state’s largest non-profit hospice.

 McNulty has been with Nathan Adelson Hospice since 2009. Prior to her promotion, she was the senior director of Human Resources and Volunteer Services for the hospice. Her new role and responsibilities include implementing systems for employee growth and performance with specific focus on employee satisfaction and engagement, along with increasing the depth and breadth of volunteer participation in the organization.

 Prior to joining the hospice, McNulty was the director of Human Resources for University Health System at the Clinical Practice of the University Of Nevada School Of Medicine, where she oversaw all human resources, training and development activities. McNulty has 20 years of experience in the human resources field and served as an adjunct faculty at the University of Phoenix, and the director of Human Resources for Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center.

 McNulty earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Master of Science in Hotel Administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Human Resources Certification Institute, and Senior Certified Professional from the Society for Human Resource Management. She is also a certified Development Dimensions International Trainer, and is bilingual in English and Spanish.

 McNulty is currently a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and serves on the United Way of Southern Nevada Women’s Leadership Council as an executive committee member at large. She also co-chairs the Volunteerism Committee there. She was a past board member for the Southern Nevada Human Resources Association, where she served as the Hospitality chairperson and the Best Places to Work chairperson for two years.

 About Nathan Adelson Hospice

Nathan Adelson Hospice, the trusted partner in hospice care and palliative medicine for almost 40 years, is the largest non-profit hospice in Southern Nevada, caring for an average of 400 hospice and palliative care patients daily. In 1978, Nathan Adelson Hospice began providing home care hospice service in Southern Nevada with the mission to offer patients and their loved ones with comprehensive end-of-life care and influence better care for all in the community.  In 1983, Nathan Adelson Hospice opened an in-patient hospice in Las Vegas, and today the hospice is recognized as a national model for superior hospice care. The mission of the hospice is to be the Hospice of Choice, the Employer of Preference and a Training Center of Excellence for comprehensive end of life care.  Its vision is simple: no one should end the journey of life alone, afraid or in pain.

 The hospice also is home to The Center for Compassionate Care, a non-profit counseling agency providing individual, group and family counseling services to address grief, loss and issues related to surviving life-threatening illnesses. For more information, visit www.nah.org.

Mar 13
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A Rallying Call for Value-Based Health Care

By | Innovation, Press Releases, Recent Releases

As a part of my professional development, I was certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) auditor in 2001. I have kept this certification while expanding my skills to include data validation and Pay for Performance Value-Based Program (P4PVBP) certification as I began to recognize the changing environment and the potential shift to VBP.

With today’s uncertainties in health care, the NCQA has joined several health care organizations in a call for a new model of care. In a letter to Congress and the administration, these groups have endorsed a shift from the fee-for-service health care system to value-based care. NCQA and its allies (doctors and specialty societies that represent physicians, health plans and payers) have developed a set of recommendations on how to move our health care system toward innovative, patient-centered care. These recommendations include:

  • Empowering and engaging patients so they can make informed health care decisions
  • Engaging patients to develop measures of provider performance
  • Recognizing that the socioeconomic status of many patients creates challenges to improving care and adjusting payments to providers as appropriate
  • Promoting public and private investment in transparency, evidence-based testing and scaling of alternative payment models, as directed by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), so clinicians, providers and payers can learn how payment models work and evolve in the clinical setting

Raising the bar on value-based purchasing will require buy-in across the health care sector. The NCQA and its allies supported further enhancement of HEDIS, one of the most widely used sets of health care performance measures in the country, and the P4PVBP. Health plans and medical groups use the standardized sets of performance measures developed by the NCQA and the Integrated HealthCare Association (IHA) to evaluate quality of care and services provided by their physicians, develop performance improvement initiatives, perform outreach to providers and members, and compare their performance with other health plans and medical groups.

As managed care becomes more a part of post-acute and long-term care and the nation experiences the further narrowing of provider networks, greater emphasis is being placed on quality performance and patient outcomes. Due to these changes, measure sets are focusing more on outcomes and cost effectiveness, rather than process measures, and conscious efforts are being made to align with other health care improvement initiatives.

Such measure sets include the new Quality Payment Program’s (QPP) Advancing Care Information (the ability to report selected eMeasures including appropriate resource use) and the IHA’s Total Cost of Quality (average health plan and member payments associated with care for a member for the year, adjusted for risk and geography). Another example is the newly redesigned P4PVBP (as developed and implemented among California medical groups), which includes a common set of quality and cost measures, a public report, a health plan incentive program, and public recognition programs.

I participated in an NCQA workgroup on eMeasure development and I’m looking forward to seeing the results of implementing a new NCQA/IHA strategy. This strategy strives to align the P4PVBP measure set with other commonly used measure sets (Quality Rating System, NCQA health plan accreditation, QPP), expand the TCOC measurement, evaluate eMeasures, and explore the feasibility of patient-centered measurements.

While performing P4PVBP audits this year in some of the top California medical groups, I was very interested in learning how implementing this program will affect the quality of their reporting and how these changes affect the care they provide their patients. We will begin seeing changes the clinical and cost measures in data from June 2016 and customer satisfaction survey results in the next few months. I appreciate how my unique vantage point as a certified auditor gives me a front row seat to watch the changes play out in our evolving health care system.

About the author

Galina Priloutskaya, PhD, MBA, CHCA is a Corporate Director of Analytics at HealthInsight. She has more than 20 years of sustained experience using standardized statistical methods to perform high-level analyses linking outcomes to improved health, health care and lower costs, and calculating quality measures from claims data, including competencies related to establishing physician attribution, evaluating statistical validity and reliability, calculating risk adjustment, and assessing result stratification. Professional experience with SQL, VBA, and SAS augments her statistical and quality capabilities to efficiently and effectively access, manage, and analyze data — including large datasets with millions of records.

She has expertise is in managing projects involving the design of health care cost and quality reports for employers groups and consumers, national public reporting initiatives for nursing homes and home health agencies, and the development and implementation ambulatory community public reporting. She is widely recognized and trusted throughout the health care system in New Mexico and nationwide, serving on multiple technical expert panels from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), often serving on committees at the national level on such topics as contract evaluation and measurement methodologies.

She holds a doctorate in economics and master’s degree in business administration. She is an NCQA certified HEDIS Compliance auditor and a CMS certified data validation auditor. She graduated from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Breakthrough College covering the use of the Chronic Care Model in Collaborative settings, and was trained as a Quality Improvement Advisor. Galina has published more 70 articles and monographs.

Mar 13
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Kick Butts Day, March 15

By | Education, Press Releases, Recent Releases

Annual campaign to stop tobacco use by young people

Wednesday, March 15 is national Kick Butts Day, a nationwide initiative sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to stop tobacco use by children and young adults. As conventional cigarette use by young people continues to decline in Clark County but use of e-cigarettes is gaining in popularity, the Southern Nevada Health District and its partners continue to educate and empower young people to be their own best advocates and lead the effort to stop youth tobacco use. 

Currently, the youth conventional cigarette smoking prevalence in Clark County is at an all time low of 5.9 percent; however, e-cigarette use among teens is 24.8 percent. This youth prevalence can be attributed to unregulated advertising, celebrity endorsements, and false claims about the products. These products are not safe and have the same or similar health risks as cigarette smoking, according to recent research. More information on e-cigarettes and the public health challenges they pose are available in this video featuring Dr. Joe Iser, the Health District’s Chief Health Officer: https://youtu.be/yVr3OjXns4k.

Many teens believe that e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes due to unrestricted marketing and lack of regulation of these products. E-cigarettes emit aerosol that contains chemicals that are classified as cancer-causing toxins. E-cigarettes have not been proven to be effective in helping people quit smoking and are not approved by the Federal Drug Administration as smoking cessation devices.

The Health District’s Tobacco Control Program combats youth tobacco use by developing programs that go beyond traditional methods, such as extensive social marketing programs, teen-focused counter-advertising activities, and community outreach programs that reach into diverse communities. By using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Best Practices models, the Tobacco Control Program has developed activities and policy efforts that have contributed to a significant decrease in youth and adult smoking rates, expanded programs directed toward diverse communities, and increased knowledge of the dangers of secondhand smoke and emerging tobacco products. 

Smokers (including youth ages 13 and up) can contact the Nevada Tobacco Quitline at 1-800-QUIT NOW for free assistance to help quit smoking. They can speak with a professional, licensed counselor for confidential assistance. Smokers can also visit the Health District’s Get Healthy Clark County website, www.GetHealthyClarkCounty.org to find tips to help quit smoking and additional resources. 

Access information about the Southern Nevada Health District on its website: www.SNHD.info. Follow the Health District on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SouthernNevadaHealthDistrict, YouTube: www.youtube.com/SNHealthDistrict, and Twitter: www.twitter.com/SNHDinfo. The Health District is available in Spanish on Twitter: www.twitter.com/TuSNHD. Don’t have a Twitter account? Follow the Health District on your phone by texting “follow SNHDinfo” to 40404. Additional information and data can be accessed through the Healthy Southern Nevada website: www.HealthySouthernNevada.org

Mar 10
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Partnership for Prescription Assistance Comes to Nevada

By | Education, Press Releases, Recent Releases

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) today announced that they will hold a free “Prescription Assistance Event” to educate lawmakers and connect uninsured and underinsured Nevada residents with prescription assistance programs.

“Despite more Americans having insurance, barriers to accessing medicines still exist, underscoring the importance of PPA to educate and empower patients and caregivers to obtain information about their prescription assistance options,” said Priscilla VanderVeer, PhRMA spokesperson, whose member companies sponsor PPA. “So far, PPA has helped more than 49,393 Nevadans find out if they qualify for free or nearly free medicines. That’s good news for Nevada.”

What:

PPA staff will be on-site to educate lawmakers and assist residents with the pparx.org website, walking them through four easy steps to see if they qualify for a prescription assistance program that will allow them to get their medications for free or nearly free.

 

When:

     Monday, March 6, 2017

     7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. – Room 3100

     12 noon – 5:00 p.m. – Front Foyer

 

Where:

   State Capitol Legislative Office Building

   Carson City, Nevada

 

Visual story opportunities:

   Nevada legislators and staff learning about PPA booth and engaging with community attendees 

·  Community attendees visiting  sponsor information booths

·  Talk to sponsors and PPA to learn about issues facing uninsured and underinsured  Nevada residents

·  Laptops for attendees to navigate prescription assistance portal   

·  Sponsor posters/logos

 

For more information about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, please visit:  www.pparx.org

 

Mar 10
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City National Awards $10,000 to Touro University Nevada’s Scholarship Program

By | Grants/Endowments, Press Releases, Recent Releases

Participating in City National’s scholarship donation are (l-r) medical student Kenneth Snyder, Touro CEO and Senior Provost Shelley Berkley, City National’s Chief Market Strategist Paul Stowell, and medical student Oksana Petrechko.

City National Bank, Nevada’s Premier Private and Business Bank®, and its equipment finance affiliate First American Equipment Finance, today announced that they have awarded Touro University Nevada with a $10,000 donation to help fund scholarships for students who need financial aid.

“City National’s support of our scholarship program has helped many of our students receive much needed funding for their medical education,” said Shelley Berkley, CEO and senior provost of Touro University Nevada.  “City National has also been a strong supporter of a number of other programs at Touro including our annual gala, our alumni reception, and much more. They are wonderful corporate partners who share in our mission to help educate tomorrow’s healthcare professionals.”

Touro College and University System is the parent of Touro University Nevada.  Touro College and University System was established in New York City in 1970 by Bernard Lander, PhD, LHD, as a Jewish-sponsored independent institution of higher and professional education primarily to enrich the Jewish Heritage, and serve the larger American community. Approximately 19,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions, located primarily in Nevada, California and New York.

“With the cost of a college education continually going up there are an increasing number of young people who can’t afford to pursue their professional dreams without some financial assistance,” said Scott Aney, Nevada regional executive for City National.  “Touro is a great medical school that is filling a real need in our community.  City National is so proud to be a part of this institution of higher learning and the wonderful programs it offers to students and our community.”

Touro University has been a client of First American Equipment Finance, a City National Bank company, for 15 years.  Touro has financed equipment, real estate improvements and software, and has been working with City National on a number of special programs for its students, faculty and alumni. The bank also installed an ATM on campus three years ago, and last year Paul Stowell, chief market strategist for City National, was appointed to Touro’s advisory board.

About Touro University Nevada (TUN)

Touro University Nevada (TUN) is a private, non-profit, Jewish-sponsored institution established to help address critical needs in health care and education and as a resource for community service in the state of Nevada. TUN opened its doors in 2004 and is now home to nearly 1,400 students, in a wide variety of degree programs including osteopathic medicine, physician assistant studies, education, nursing, occupational therapy and physical therapy. The university’s Henderson campus includes a multi-specialty health center and a multi-disciplinary Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

For more information on TUN, please visit www.tun.touro.edu or call 702- 777-8687.

About City National

With $47 billion in assets, City National Bank provides banking, investment and trust services through 73 offices, including 16 full-service regional centers, in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Nevada, New York City, Nashville and Atlanta. In addition, the company and its investment affiliates manage or administer $58 billion in client investment assets.

City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies. RBC serves more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the United States and 36 other countries.

For more information about City National, visit the company’s website at cnb.com.

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Mar 09
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Health District, Touro University Team Up for New Clinic

By | Clinics, Press Releases, Recent Releases

WHAT: 

A ribbon cutting for the Southern Nevada Health District’s Henderson Clinic at Touro University Nevada.

WHEN:          

Tuesday, March 14, 2017  3 p.m.

WHERE:        

Touro University Nevada, 874 American Pacific Drive, Henderson

                        (entrance is located at the Northwest corner of the building)

WHY:             

The Southern Nevada Health District will offer immunization services to the community and partner with the university to oversee the students’ health services clinic.

WHO:            

Representatives from the Southern Nevada Health District, Touro University Nevada, and the Henderson Chamber of Commerce will be available.

Updated information about the Southern Nevada Health District can be found on its website: www.SNHD.info. Follow the Health District on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SouthernNevadaHealthDistrict, YouTube: www.youtube.com/SNHealthDistrict, and Twitter: www.twitter.com/SNHDinfo. The Health District is available in Spanish on Twitter: www.twitter.com/TuSNHD. Don’t have a Twitter account? Follow the Health District on your phone by texting “follow SNHDinfo” to 40404.

Feb 28
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Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Awards More Than $300,000

By | Awards, Press Releases, Recent Releases

Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican, the community’s only not-for-profit, religiously sponsored hospital system, has made $319,635 in grant awards to five nonprofit collaborations in Henderson and Las Vegas. St. Rose has awarded grants to community programs for more than 20 years.

“St. Rose has been committed to providing quality healthcare and supporting the communities of Henderson and Las Vegas for almost 70 years,” said Brian Brannman, senior vice president of operations, Dignity Health Nevada. “There were multiple needs in southern Nevada this year. Awarding these grants in this fashion will enable us all to continue working toward improving the health and well being of this community.”

Community organization recipients included:

·         $100,000 for Medical Care for the Homeless – Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada;

·         $100,000 for Healthcare and Navigation Services – Southern NV CHIPs, Clark County Fire, Henderson Fire & Police, Las Vegas Fire, North Las Vegas Fire;

·         $20,000 for Transportation for Home-Bound Seniors – Boulder City Lend a Hand;

·         $45,000 for Expansion of Evidence-Based Programs for Seniors – UNLV OLLI;

·         $54,635 for Implementing Promotoras Program in Nevada – Visión y Compromiso.

To be selected for a grant, an organization or program must meet one or more of the following criteria:

·         Address the greatest health needs of the community;

·         Emphasize prevention to address the underlying cause of health problems;

·         Contribute to a seamless continuum of care;

·         Build upon and mobilize existing services in the community; and

·         Engage diverse community stakeholders in implementation and oversight.

About Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican

As the community’s only not-for-profit, faith-based health system, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican has been guided by the vision and core values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for more than 65 years. As the Henderson and Las Vegas communities grow, the three St. Rose Dominican hospitals (the Rose de Lima, Siena and San Martín Campuses) and nearly 4,000 employees will continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need. St. Rose Dominican is a member of the 21-state Dignity Health network of nearly 11,000 physicians, 56,000 employees, and more than 300 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers, home health, and primary care clinics. For more information, visit our website at strosehospitals.org or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or our Blog. St. Rose is hiring! To apply for an open position, visit our careers website.

Feb 21
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Montevista Hospital Offers New Adolescent Chemical Dependency Intensive Outpatient Program (CD IOP) Monday-Thursday 3:00-6:00 PM Starting February 20, 2017.

By | Press Releases

LAS VEGAS, NV (February 20, 2017)- Strategic Behavioral Health, LLC and Montevista Hospital are proud to announce the new Adolescent Chemical Dependency Intensive Outpatient Program (CD IOP). This program is offered in response to the urgent community need for a voluntary outpatient treatment program for adolescents ages 12-17. Montevista Hospital offers a centrally located after school program that encourages young people struggling with chemical dependency issues to stay in school while attending treatment sessions. Since family support and participation is essential to the success of any treatment program, the 3:00-6:00 pm program schedule is offered so working parents or guardians can attend often with minimal disruption at work and at home. This program will evaluate and support adolescents with a full range of substance use disorders.

Program Benefits:
• Gain an understanding about addiction
• Receive substance abuse education
• Identify triggers of use
• Process underlying feelings
• Relapse prevention
• Management of life’s stressors
• Ongoing support
• Transportation assistance available for participants

Program Expectations:
• Attend 12-step meetings weekly and obtain a sponsor
• Attend and participate in all individual and group sessions under supervision of therapist
• Attend multi-family group sessions
• Comply with drug screens
• Follow program rules and guidelines

Feb 21
0

Montevista Hospital’s Outpatient Clinic will host an Open House on Friday, March 17, 2017. The Outpatient Clinic will be open to the public from 10:00 am to 5 pm on March 17th. Snacks and beverages will be served throughout the day.

By | Press Releases

Montevista Hospital’s Outpatient Clinic will host an Open House on Friday, March 17, 2017. The Outpatient Clinic will be open to the public from 10:00 am to 5 pm on March 17th. Snacks and beverages will be served throughout the day.

Outpatient Clinic Open House Schedule of Events:

10:00-11:00 am: V.I.P. meeting with hospital leadership, treatment teams, tour facility. Media invited, interviews available upon request.
11:30- 1:00 pm: Montevista Hospital’s monthly Lunch & Learn continuing education series presented by Larry Espadero, LADC and Kevin Hall, LCSW: “Adolescent CD Treatment” for community partners/invited guests.
3:00- 5:00 pm: Special After School Open House session for parents and educators. Note: All educators will receive a specially designed “tool-kit” to assist in their effort to support troubled adolescents under their daily supervision.

About Montevista Hospital:
Montevista Hospital has been the leader in behavioral health care for the greater Las Vegas area for over 30 years. Montevista Hospital is a 202-bed state-of-the-art mental health facility built specifically with our patients needs in mind. Montevista provides quality behavioral health care to promote growth and structure for patients and families throughout southern Nevada. We treat children, adolescents, adults, and seniors in both inpatient and outpatient settings. We also provide 60 adolescent residential beds for our community’s needs.

About Strategic Behavioral Health, LLC:
Founded in 2006, Strategic Behavioral Health (SBH) continues to strive towards being one of the top behavioral healthcare organizations in the U.S. Our goal at each SBH treatment center is to help our patients overcome their personal challenges and create a positive environment through compassionate caregivers, family, and friends that supports them in their effort to regain control of their life during and after treatment.

Each of our unique locations specializes in an innovative and effective treatment process. We understand each patient has a unique set of challenges that almost always require a custom treatment plan. To ensure successful treatment and recovery, each patient works with a team of trained professionals that setup a personalized treatment and recovery plan that addresses each direct and indirect challenge. Using an interdisciplinary team of professionals, our patients and their family can rest assured that they will receive an exceptional level of service and care.

To RSVP for the open house contact Gregory Cowper, Director of Business Development, gregory.cowper@strategicbh.com or (702) 302-6290.

Feb 21
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Warm Springs Surgical Center Performs 1,000th Weight Loss Surgery Procedure

By | Clinics, Healthcare, Press Releases, Recent Releases

Warm Springs Surgical Center based in Las Vegas, Nevada performs it’s 1,000th weight loss surgery procedure today.

Founded in late 2013, Warm Springs Surgical Center is a dedicated surgical facility used specifically for Blossom Bariatrics’ surgical weight loss procedure clients.

“It’s amazing to be able to say we have performed 1,000 bariatric surgery procedures at Warm Springs Surgical Center. I designed this program with patient safety and comfort in mind. Most of our procedures are done on an outpatient basis and it’s a fantastic alternative to having your surgery done at a hospital,” says Dr. Tom Umbach, owner of Warm Springs Surgical Center and surgeon at Blossom Bariatrics.

Warm Springs Surgical Center and Blossom Bariatrics in Las Vegas, Nevada have been helping patients lose weight and keep it off since June 2008.

About Blossom Bariatrics:

Blossom Bariatrics is a surgical weight loss center located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Award winning board certified surgeon Dr. Thomas Umbach is recognized by Newsweek as one of the “Nation’s Leading Bariatric Surgeons” and by The New Economy as one of the “Best Healthcare Consultants,” and is a leader in the bariatric specialty. Dr. Tom is dedicated to helping individuals improve their health, and live more fulfilling lives by losing their excess weight. His weight loss surgery practice specializes in both advanced and traditional laparoscopic procedures. Visit http://www.blossombariatrics.com for more information.