Photos: Reworking healthcare in Las Vegas
Steve Bonzheim, second from left, waits for medical care with his wife, Kathy, as another patient arrives in the often overcrowded emergency room at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
(Christina House / For The Times)When Nevada decided to guarantee state residents health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a handful of doctors and civic leaders in Las Vegas began working to remake the way patients are cared for by adopting models of care pioneered in America’s healthiest communities.
Crunched for space, University Medical Center’s emergency room runs an improvised kidney dialysis center for immigrants who are in the country illegally.
(Christina House / For The Times)