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health care on the move CEO OF UMC leaving to take job at St. Rose Dominican STEVE MARCUS crisis coming: Nevada ranks 50th in the nation for number of registered nurses per 100,000 state residents and 46th for general practitioners. shortage of health care workers in state expected to get worse By Andrew Doughman staff writer The chronic shortage of doctors that afflicts Nevadans may grow worse, lawmakers have been warned. A group of health care experts reviewed the state's long-standing deficiency in providing an adequate health care workforce for Nevada's residents at a legislative committee, providing fresh data showing that Nevada still ranks poorly among states for the number of doctors and nurses it counts among its population. That shortage health care professionals isn't going away anytime soon, experts say. Instead, it could actually be getting worse. The advent of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act both mandates and provides subsidies for people to get health insurance, and with hundreds of thousands of Nevadans predicted to get insurance, there's even more pressure on the health care system to have enough professionals to see patients. How bad is the problem? For one, the health care workforce isn't growing. And health care workers are getting older and closer to retirement, according to experts who de| 20 JANUARY 2014 20140120_VI07_F.indd 7 | nevada's health care workforce rankings Here's where Nevada's health care workforce ranks on the basis of the number of physicians per 100,000 state residents. Washington, D.C., is included in the rankings. General and family practitioners Pediatricians Psychiatrists Obstetricians and gynecologists Ophthalmologists Orthopedic surgeons General surgeons Specialty surgeons 46th 46th 50th 40th 48th 51st 51st 51st Now here's the same comparison data for licensed nurses: Registered nurses 50th Nurse practitioners 41st Clinical nurse specialists 26th Certified nurse midwives 44th Certified nurse anesthetists 51st Licensed practical nurses 49th livered presentations to the legislative health care committee. "We're just treading water," said Gerald Ackerman with the University of Nevada School of Medicine. "There are severe health workforce shortages." These are long-standing problems. Another set of legislators examined the shortage of nurses in Nevada — in 1989. By Conor Shine staff writer University Medical Center CEO Brian Brannman is leaving his post at the financially challenged public hospital to take over as an executive at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, representatives at both organizations confirmed earlier this month. Brannman will initially serve as vice president of operations for St. Rose Dominican Hospitals and as president and CEO of the Siena Campus in Henderson. He is expected to succeed Rod Davis as the executive overseeing all three of St. Rose Dominican Hospitals' Southern Nevada campuses when Davis retires later this year. No formal date has been set for Brannman's departure, although he is expected to begin working at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals by the end of the month. Brannman was hired at UMC in 2008 to serve as chief operating officer and was chosen to take over as CEO in 2011; he earned an annual salary of $243,422. Prior to joining UMC, he spent much of his career working in health care for the Navy. Brannman's departure comes at a crucial time for UMC, which is adjusting to new requirements and changes to its patient population as a result of the Affordable Care Act. The hospital continues to lose tens of millions of dollars annually, in part because of the large cost of providing indigent care. County commissioners who oversee the hospital recently created an independent governing board in an attempt to provide the hospital with more hands-on attention from legal, financial and medical experts. Brannman played a key role in forming that board and was expected to help educate its new members about the intricacies of UMC. Commissioners will discuss and possibly appoint an interim CEO for UMC at their meeting Tuesday. UMC Board Chairman and Commissioner Lawrence Weekly said once an interim is in place, officials will begin a search for a permanent CEO. Weekly said the newly formed governing board will play a key role in conducting the search, but the ultimate decision of whom to hire will remain with the county commission. real estate summerlin hospital's Property purchase raises speculation about possible expansion By Eli Segall staff writer Is Summerlin Hospital Medical Center plotting another expansion? Its owners recently bought 7 acres of undeveloped land across the street from the Las Vegas facility, property records show. The $4.5 million purchase, from developer Howard Hughes Corp., closed last month. If executives are tossing around ideas for the land on Banburry Cross Drive, they're staying mum. There are no definitive plans at this time for the site, hospital spokeswoman Gretchen Papez said. The hospital, owned by Pennsylvania's Universal Health Services, a national for-profit hospital chain, opened in the late 1990s. In 2007, a year or so before Las Vegas' booming economy imploded, it unveiled plans for a $100 million expansion. The project was completed in 2009 and included a six-story patient tower, a larger emergency department, a four-story medical office building and a three-story parking garage. 7 1/15/14 4:51:14 PM

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