The Intermountain Healthcare Foundation announced that Larry and Heidi Canarelli committed $50 million to its Campaign for Kids, created to build a stand-alone children’s hospital and expand access to specialized pediatric care in Nevada. The hospital is set to open in 2030. The foundation plans to name the inpatient tower Larry & Heidi Canarelli Inpatient Tower in honor of the couple. The tower will have 180 inpatient beds with room to expand to 228. Planned services include a trauma center, emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care, cancer center, behavioral health services, child abuse treatment center and advanced medical and surgical specialties.
The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City opened a 9,000-square-foot, $25 million visitor center. This is the museum’s first visitor center and the Nevada Division of Museums and History‘s first new museum to open in 20 years. The center features exhibits, interactive multimedia experiences, artifacts, a projection map theater, and an overhead mural that visually explains the development of rail transportation in the Silver State.
Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican San Martin Hospital has begun collaborating with Opportunity Village and Clark County School District (CCSD) through the Job Discovery Program (JDP) to create opportunities for students with developmental disabilities to build job skills and experience. Students aged 18 to 22 years old are provided with the opportunity to rotate through a series of work experiences at 11 partner sites.
Renown Health recently broke ground on a medical facility in Sparks to expand access to community-based care in one of the area’s fastest-growing neighborhoods. The project is expected to cost $140 million and begin operations in December of next year. In addition, Renown Health recently released the 2027–2029 Community Health Implementation Strategy, which outlines the system’s plan to address community health needs identified through the 2026 Community Health Needs Assessment. Renown has opened applications for the 2027 grant cycle.
The University of Nevada, Reno‘s Orvis School of Nursing received three grants totaling nearly $4.6 million toward the development of rural, frontier and underserved clinical training for students. The Nevada Advanced Practice Nurse Fellowship grant will support six nursing students’ academic and living stipends. Grants from the Nevada Rural APRN Capacity Expansion Program and U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration will focus on expanding nursing education.
The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA) announced its rebranding to Las Vegas Regional Economic Partnership (LVREP). The organization’s counterpart in Northern Nevada, formerly EDAWN, also rebranded in July of this year. The new name is Northern NV Now.
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