It will provide outpatient and diagnostics services to residents of the northwest quadrant of the valley. St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson offers residents 24 hour emergency, general and acute care. The recently completed St. Rose Dominican Medical Plaza houses the Heart Institute of Nevada, Desert Gastroenterology, and the Radiation Therapy Group of Henderson. The Las Vegas Federal Medical Center is a 375,000 square foot full service veterans hospital. Nathan Adelson Hospice, partially supported through donations, provides an inpatient facility or care- in the home for terminally ill patients.
Hospice care focuses on the family as a whole, treatment as it relates to the patient.
Angel Plane, a fleet of private planes and pilots, provide free air transportation to children who need treatment outside Las Vegas. United Way of Southern Nevada supports over 70 local organizations and contributes approximately 87 cents of every fund-raising dollar to provide needed services. Relay Nevada, a 24 hour telecommunications service enables telephone contact with guaranteed privacy for the deaf or hearing impaired. In an effort, to accommodate explosive growth in other areas of McCarran International Airport, the Department of Aviation has initiated the third phase of McCarran 2000, the airports growth plan to lead into the next century. The southern beltway, approved by the Federal Highway Administration will improve traffic in and out of McCarran.