Desert Springs Hospital

I worked here from 2011 to 2015. This place was the reason I started this site. I won 1 arbitration and 2 National Labor Board cases against them. I was a huge advocate and reported them to the state with concerns in regard to safety and respect for their patients and staff. To date (2023) none of their 6 facilities have a stable staffing plan as reported from current and former employees and close friends. This year many of those colleagues have reported that their ICU, IMC, and Med/Surg units are still out of what we call a safe ratio of nurses/CNAs to patients.

Rawson Neil Psychiatric Hospital

I worked here as an agency nurse. Sometimes I had as many as 12 patients which to me was a bit hard trying to manage all their care and all their medications.  Unfortunately, they were always understaffed and their pay as a state employee was significantly lower compared to a private sector. The staff was amazing at trying their best with what they had. Psych is always considered high stress, so not being staffed properly did not help the staff or the patients.

Summerlin Hospital

I worked here in 2011. The current nurse to patient ratio is still an issue in 2023. More so than before. My adult sickle cell population had a lot of issues here especially with receiving their pain medication on time due to recurring staffing issues. Some of the best pediatric sickle cell physicians work here therefore this hospital is recommended due to the knowledge of those pediatric "blood" doctors. They have a lot of work to do at their commitment to good service.

Centennial Hills Hospital

In 2023 this facility is part of UHS and still having the same issues with not having a stable staffing plan for the nurses and CNAs.

Spring Valley Hospital

This facility is also part of UHS in which they do not have a stable staffing plan in place in 2023. Reports of short staffing and high turnover has been a constant theme with their staff and is reported through various workers from that facility and community posts on social media outlets. There were many reports from staff that deemed them very unsafe. They have quite a bad record with Health Care Quality and Compliance.

Sunrise Hospital

This facility has been on news outlets for years in which their own staff conducts protests regularly in regard to the continued lack of staffing and unsafe conditions. They are a union hospital with SEIU. I have personally spoke to their nursing, CNA, dietary, and respiratory staff in regard to the hospitals lack of support and lack of providing safe conditions to their staff. They gave a NICU nurse 6 patients and said its OK for the CNA to feed them all. This is wrong and unsafe for the child since the nurse is supposed to be assessing the child while feeding. I was removed by security (2019) with no valid reason because I kept asking why my sickle cell patient had to constantly be delayed with his medications. The patient recorded this dispute with security because they were not properly treating the patient medically and refusing the patient to have an advocate. The new tower they built, they told their staff they will hire no more respiratory staff and told them to just run for an emergency code of our loved ones.

Mountain View Hospital

This too is a HCA facility, in which they all are under a Nevada state staffing law, but they do not abide by it often. We get the same reports that staffing (all departments) is never stable and has gotten even worse in 2023.

Southern Hills Hospital

This too is a HCA facility (Sunrise and Mountain view Hospital) and as their sisters, their staffing plan is not a stable one. To date (2023) I have friends that work here that say they struggle with good staffing every shift. In Las Vegas there are just 3 hospitals that have mandated ratios, and their humankindness is amazing. The staff here really cares about what they do, unfortunately they struggle at times because of staffing and PPE. Several colleagues that work here struggle with bad ratios which affect the care.

UMC Hospital

This is a state facility, and they work with what they got. The staff really tries but unfortunately the staffing here sufferers as well. The SEIU local 1107 union defends its members. They have been on the news over the years in regard to their staffing shortfalls and problems with safety. I have advocated for a pediatric patient in which they were trying to discharge her too soon and we were able to get the child airlifted to the correct facility. Before that was done, the hospital asked me to leave because they did not want the mother of the daughter using an outside advocate. The mother stated that they were wrong at wanting to originally discharge her child when she knew there was something else wrong, and the mother was right.

Valley Hospital

They are part of the 6 hospitals for the UHS chain. They are an older facility that has a long history with state facilities for complaints and errors in care. They are another facility that has been understaffing since wethenurses helped pass the law in 2013. Today in 2023 it has gotten much worse since staff still does not get proper ratios which makes your loved ones suffer. We had a patient go in for a routine procedure then to passed away suddenly from complications that were not caught in time by the staff. We have reported such events to the state for investigation. Efforts by the staff have been limited due to their lack and fatigue due to understaffing.