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NRHP’s Jessica Flood Wins Healthcare Heroes Award
At its 14th Annual Healthcare Heroes event, the Nevada Business Magazine honored NRHP's Jessica Flood with a Community Partner award for her work as the Regional Behavioral Health Coordinator. The excerpt from Nevada Business Magazine is below, and the entire article can be found here: https://www.nevadabusiness.com/2019/09/healthcare-heroes-2019/. Congratulations Jessica! "Nevada’s rural regions [...]
Boulder City Hospital Recognized for Use of Project ECHO in Antibiotic Stewardship Program
From the National Rural Health Resource Center: Boulder City Hospital (BCH) was recognized for its use of Project ECHO in advancing the quality of their antibiotic stewardship program (ASP). The ASP program, established in 2013, became stronger when they began participating in Project ECHO to gain education through didactic presentations. [...]
Materials from 2019 Western Region Flex Conference
The 2019 Western Region Flex Conference took place last month in Marana, Arizona. More information about the conference can be found at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine website: https://med.unr.edu/cme/flex2019 The speaker presentations can be found here: Welcome and Overview of Day OneDaniel Derksen, MD, Associate Vice President [...]
Governor Sisolak Signs AB85 into Law
On May 15, 2019, Governor Steve Sisolak signed AB85 into law. This bill was put forward by the Northern Regional Behavioral Health Policy Board with the goal of reforming Nevada's involuntary mental health hold process. The Policy Board worked with stakeholders across Nevada to identify the following objectives to guide [...]
Banner Churchill Community Hospital Earns 4-Star Rating
Banner Churchill Community Hospital (BCCH) in Fallon, Nevada was one of only four hospitals in the state to earn a 4-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) when the star ratings were updated in February. See the article in the Nevada Appeal here: https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/banner-hospital-earns-4-star-rating/ See the [...]
NRHPF Golf Tournament
The NRHP Foundation Golf Tournament is coming up on June 7th, 2019! Event brochure with sponsor packages and the registration form can be found by clicking on the link below. The NRHP Golf Tournament has become a celebrated and much anticipated annual event. Tournament Coordinator Susan Fryer does a superb [...]
Silver Syringe Winners!
Congratulations to the following NRHP member hospitals for being recognized at the 20th Annual Silver Syringe Awards! Outstanding Pharmacy Immunization Program Alison Toigo, BS, PharmD, Banner Churchill Community Hospital Healthy People 2020 Churchill Community Hospital* Carson Valley Medical Center* Humboldt General Hospital* *This award is based on the Health People [...]
Susan Davila, CEO, DVH, Named to National Women to Know List
Becker's Healthcare named Desert View Hospital CEO Susan Davila to its annual list of woman hospital and health system leaders to know. The leaders on this list were selected based on editorial judgment after evaluation of their management and leadership skills as well as career accomplishments. For the full article, [...]
NRHP Releases RFI for Community Paramedicine Solution
Nevada Rural Hospital Partners (NRHP) is a consortium of the 13 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in Nevada. NRHP has been awarded a three-year federal HRSA grant to implement a community paramedicine/mobile integrated health program in six rural communities. The program will be collaborating with a seventh rural community and NRHP [...]
2017 Opioid Abuse Prevention Summit
The 2017 Opioid Abuse Prevention Summit is sponsored by the Nevada Office of Rural Health and Nevada Rural Hospital Partners. Opioid-related hospitalizations spiked more than 150 percent from 2013 to 2015, according to the most recent data from the state health department. In 2015, 465 Nevada residents died from opioid [...]