Sisolak hosts listening session on health care focused on mental health, provider shortages
Gov.-elect Steve Sisolak assembled a team of health-care policy experts Friday for what one of the moderators jokingly referred to as a speed dating session centered around behavioral health care, Medicaid, the ongoing shortage of medical providers and health-care costs.
Under the umbrella of those topics, the more than three dozen attendees in rapid-fire succession listed a host of issues plaguing the state, including a lack of reciprocity in health-care licensure with other states, the ongoing need to support graduate medical education and how to provide health care to Nevadans at a price point they can actually afford. Sisolak, who presided over the event with Culinary Health Fund policy director Bobbette Bond and University Medical Center CEO Mason VanHouweling, asked a handful of questions during the session but largely took the opportunity to listen to the attendees.
In a brief interview after the event, Sisolak said it was like “drinking out of a firehose.”
“This is what our transition has been, but the good thing is there are so many ideas out there,” Sisolak said. “Now we’ve got to be able to capture them, dilute them down, and come up with some plans.”
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