Southern Nevada
Corporate Sponsor
It means the world to us to provide care to the communities where we live and work.
At Southwest Medical, part of Optum Care, it’s something we have been doing for nearly 50 years. Across each passing decade, the health and well-being of our patients, our community and our team members continue to be our top priority. We want to see patients stay healthy, during and well beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Being part of the state as long as we have, we know Nevadans. We know generations of them. And we also know that our community’s quality of life depends on the health of its members. As Nevada’s largest healthcare provider, we know the health of our medical workforce is vital. We decided early in the rollout of our COVID-19 vaccination efforts that we would offer to vaccinate medical providers and their team members throughout our community.
That’s why, in addition to our own healthcare providers and staff, we scheduled vaccinations for physicians and staff of any other local physician groups. At the same time, we scheduled COVID vaccinations for members of our own network and patients. We’ve vaccinated tens of thousands of Nevadans during the pandemic, and now parents and guardians who choose to do so can get a COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 and over.
We have years of experience providing vaccinations on a large scale – including operating drive-through flu shot clinic events here in southern Nevada for several years. This experience placed us in an ideal position to provide COVID vaccinations during this critical time. We held numerous drive-thru COVID vaccination clinics for older adults throughout the community.
We also took steps to care for the medically vulnerable in the community. Southwest Medical partnered with OptumRx to open a COVID Care Clinic at the Rancho Urgent Care (888 S. Rancho Drive) location to administer Bamlanivimab intravenously for our most at-risk patients. Bamlanivimab is a state-of-the-art drug that has had great success against COVID-19 and is still not widely available to the public. Strict protocols are involved with selecting the patients. This infusion site streamlines COVID care while protecting immuno-compromised cancer patients and relieving over-burdened hospitals. This clinic continues to aid in the recovery of at-risk individuals.
Southwest Medical is Nevada’s largest multi-specialty medical group with over 450 local healthcare providers, including seven convenient care centers, six urgent care centers and two outpatient surgery centers. Our full spectrum of healthcare services includes Southwest Medical Hospice, improving the quality of life for people experiencing a terminal illness. We also bring care and comfort home to our patients through Home Health Services.
Optum Care Nevada is a family of more than 3,000 providers and 800 primary and specialty clinics across Nevada, and 45 owned clinics in the Las Vegas Valley, as well as specialty care offering services for lung, allergy, cancer, orthopedics and spine care.
In good health,
The Team at Optum Care Nevada
For more information on Southwest Medical, visit smalv.com.
For more information on Optum Care Nevada, visit optumcare.com/nevada.