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Several local law firms received the highest distinction awarded in the 2014 edition of “Best Law Firms” from U.S. News and Best Lawyers. They are:
• Armstrong Teasdale: Banking and finance
• Bailey Kennedy: Appellate and health care
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck: Commercial litigation, corporate, gaming, ERISA litigation and real estate
• Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas: Commercial litigation, government relations, banking and finance litigation and real estate
• Gordon Silver: Administrative and regulatory, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization, white-collar criminal defense, gaming, land use and zoning, banking and finance litigation and bankruptcy litigation
• Greenberg Traurig: Commercial litigation, construction, copyright, corporate, land use and zoning, banking and finance litigation, construction litigation, intellectual property litigation, real estate litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and trademark
• Holland and Hart: Commercial litigation and construction
• Lionel Sawyer & Collins: Appellate, commercial litigation, corporate, management employment, gaming, government relations, information technology, management labor, land use and zoning, construction litigation, intellectual property litigation, labor and employment litigation, real estate and tax
• McDonald Carano Wilson: Commercial litigation, corporate, construction litigation and real estate
• Ogletree Deakins: Construction
• Oshins & Associates: Tax and trusts and estates
• Nutile Pitz & Associates: Health care
• Pisanelli Bice: Commercial litigation, land use and zoning litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation and real estate litigation
• Snell and Wilmer: Bankruptcy, creditor debtor rights and insolvency and reorganization, corporate, bankruptcy litigation and real estate
Thirty-four adult primary care clinics owned by HealthCare Partners Medical Group, a physician-run group of primary, specialty and urgent care providers, have been recognized as patient-centered medical homes by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, meaning staff emphasizes a strong clinician-patient relationship and personalized health care delivery.
Sunrise Health System’s MountainView and Southern Hills hospitals were named among the nation’s “Top Performers on Key Quality Measures” by the Joint Commission. The hospitals were recognized for exemplary performance using evidence-based clinical processes that improve care for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgery patients. Southern Hills has achieved top performer status for three consecutive years.
Newave, a gaming compliance and efficiency software supplier, installed its myCompliance Manager software at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs, Calif.
Desert Springs Hospital unveiled a Shaper Bariatric Surgery app that allows people to preview how bariatric surgery could transform their physique. The app is available on Google play or Android and Apple app stores.
WellHealth Women’s Specialty Care is one of 27 organizations nationally that will implement Strong Start Centering Pregnancy group prenatal care intended to reduce preterm births and improve outcomes for newborns. The initiative is part of Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns, managed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
The Mob Museum is one of three finalists for the British Guild of Travel Writers’ “Best Wider World Project” award, which recognizes non-European attractions open for fewer than three years.