The Texas Station site is operating in addition to the drive-thru testing site in the UNLV Tropicana parking garage next to the Thomas & Mack Center. Both sites are operated by Clark County and University Medical Center in partnership with the Nevada National Guard. (Renee Summerour and Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Seven-year-old Theresa Ann Babcock pulls an ice chest outside University Medical Center to hand out water to Metro officers on duty. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
RJ health reporter Mary Hynes talks about why University Medical Center started prescribing hydroxychloroquine, how they are doing it and what a patient needs to have in order to receive it. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jacqueline Saites, director of contracts management at University Medical Center, talks about UMC’s personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Dr. Thomas Zyniewicz talks about how and why University Medical Center is prescribing hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and UMC Director of Infectious Disease Dr. Shadaba Asad discussed COVID-19 precautions and other information related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Golden Knights and UMC give kids a chance to be a Knight for a day – VIDEO
Oct. 1 was the second day on the job for Officer Brandon Engstrom who saved a critically injured woman amid the chaos of the Route 91 shooting. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UMC held its first donor walk Wednesday, to honor Michael Sigler, who donated his organs after succumbing to injuries from a motorcycle accident. (University Medical Center)
Counselors participated in a training to learn “eye movement desensitization and reprocessing” at University Medical Center Friday. (Jessie Bekker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bryan Salmond travels to City National Arena where the University Medical Center teamed up with the Golden Knights to give pediatric patients a chance to sign a contract and be a player for the day with Golden Knights center Ryan Carpenter.
Staff from the University Medical Center talk about the victims they have taken in from the deadly shooting at the Mandalay Bay hotel.(Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department briefs the media on the UMC officer involved shooting that occurred Sep. 25th. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Monday’s headlines: 1 dead in officer-involved shooting, pot lab gets license suspended, Sandoval confused over CCSD budget woes. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Friday’s Headlines: One-punch suspect to stand trial, Raiders Stadium could face construction delays, Man accidentally shoots, kills grandmother.
1. A judge set bail at $350,000 Friday for the man charged with murder after a single punch killed a father of five outside Fremont Street Club. The Las Vegas Justice of the Peace weighted James Beach’s criminal past, which includes an attempted murder conviction.
2. The mas accused of fatally shooting a bus passenger on the Strip in March was found incompetent to stand trial Friday. The judge ordered him sent to a state mental health facility in Las Vegas for treatment that could lead to a competency finding, and prosecution later. Roland Bueno Cardenas faces multiple charges including open murder and attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
3. One person is dead after a shooting in the west valley Saturday afternoon. Police responded to Stober Court near South Rainbow Boulevard and West Flamingo Roads for reports of a person shot in the middle of the road. That person was taken to UMC for surgery, where they later died.
