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IN BUSINESS HEALTH CARE QUARTERLY NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE LAS VEGAS HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY STROKE CENTERS HONORED Sunrise Hospital and MountainView Hospital, two of the Sunrise Health Hospitals' certified stroke centers, have been recognized for high performance by the American Heart and American Stroke Associations. Both hospitals have been named to the Association's Target: Stroke Honor Roll for improving stroke care. In addition, Sunrise Hospital and the Nevada Neurosciences Institute have received the 2011 American Stroke Association's GWTG Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award, the third consecutive year they have been so recognized. SPECIALISTS JOIN RUVO CENTER The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has expanded its clinical and research capabilities with the addition of specialists Gabriel Leger and Sarah Banks, recognized experts in Alzheimer's disease and the related subspecialty of Frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease), a form of dementia that causes extreme changes in behavior. Leger previously was an assistant professor and director of the Neurology Residency program at the University of Montreal. Banks is a clinical psychologist specializing in neuropsychology. She has worked with patients with movement disorders and focused on neurodegenerative disease. VOGELZANG RECOGNIZED The Community Clinical Oncology We treat more breast cancer patients than all other Nevada cancer treatment facilities combined. That's strong medicine. Program has presented Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang and the research staff at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada with a Gold Certificate of Excellence for outstanding achievement in clinical trial patient enrollments. CCOP advances clinical trials nationwide, and recognizes physicians who contribute to furthering cancer research through groundbreaking clinical trials. Dr. Vogelzang and his team are one of only 16 nationwide to earn this certificate, which acknowledges high patient enrollment in National Cancer Institute Treatment and Cancer Control Trials between June 2010 and May 2011. FINNEGAN NAMED CEO AT VALLEY Jay Finnegan is the new CEO and One out of eight women will face breast cancer in her lifetime. Which means one out of eight wives, sisters, aunts, daughters and mothers will be stricken. When breast cancer strikes one of us, whole families suffer. We treat more than 4,000 breast cancer patients every year. We are also conducting more clinical trials than all other Nevada cancer treatment facilities combined. As an affiliate of both the world-renowned Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and of US Oncology, which is one of the largest oncology networks in America, chances are we know more about the challenge you face than any other cancer treatment provider. And we know the most current, effective way to treat you. When it comes to cancer treatment, you have a choice. Ask your doctor. Visit us on the web. Get the information you need to get beyond breast cancer. managing director for Valley Hospital Medical Center. Finnegan has more than 30 years' experience as a hospital executive, serving most recently as CEO of Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center near Orlando, Fla. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. PHYSICIANS FORM QUALITY CARE IPA More than 300 independent, private- practice physicians in the Las Vegas Valley have formed a new alliance. The group of medical care providers, Quality Care IPA, features primary care and specialty physicians whose initial service offering will be specifically for recipients of Medicare. The organization says it will offer live customer support and a health care services network that features laboratory locations throughout the Las Vegas Valley, access to specialty care and affiliations with all Las Vegas area hospitals. The group will offer services in Las There are twelve Comprehensive Cancer Center treatment facilities in Southern Nevada. Visit our website for details. cccnevada.com Strong Medicine Vegas beginning Jan. 1. Medicare recipients can switch to a Quality Care IPA doctor by contacting their health plans. BCBS AWARDS GRANT Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has made a $25,000 corporate foundation grant to the March of Dimes to expand CenteringPregnancy, the nonprofit's CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 14 | 21 NOVEMBER 2011 |