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NewsNewspaper investigation serves as catalyst for stepped up hospital reporting requirements
Nevada hospitals will no longer be able to get away with under-reporting or mis-reporting sentinel event data. Nevada lawmakers unanimously approved two draft bills Tuesday to require state hospitals Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Vegas hep C outbreak spurs Nevada laws
Last year, two clinics were forced to notify more than 50,000 patients that they may have been exposed to blood-borne diseases by unsafe injection practices. Now, in an effort to prevent such Read more...
NV hospital hired clinics accused of lax practices
An area medical center is coming under fire to defend a $1 million contract with a group of clinics now under investigation for potentially widespread infection control failures. The contract has Read more...
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