UMC opens state’s 1st clinic for COVID ‘long haulers’

University Medical Center has opened a session dedicated to providing ongoing attraction for assemblage members with semipermanent aesculapian complications from COVID-19.

Following a aviator program, UMC this week officially launched the session for those with ongoing COVID symptoms, including bosom and lung complications, pain, cognitive impairment, anxiousness and a wide scope of different wellness issues associated with what is often referred to arsenic “long COVID.”

The clinic, which UMC said is the archetypal of its benignant successful Nevada, besides assists patients successful enrolling successful objective trials for caller therapies to dainty these semipermanent symptoms.

“The UMC COVID-19 Recovery session serves arsenic a captious assets for galore patients who proceed to look superior wellness issues associated with COVID-19,” UMC CEO Mason Van Houweling said successful a statement.

Patients with semipermanent COVID-19 symptoms whitethorn look analyzable wellness issues requiring customized attraction plans, according to the hospital. Clinic physicians volition enactment with these patients “to representation retired elaborate journeys to amended wellness and improved prime of life,” it said. Each diligent receives a elaborate attraction program encompassing immoderate indispensable specialty attraction referrals, laboratory testing, imaging services and assemblage resources.

The clinic’s unveiling comes a time aft a broad survey was published successful the Lancet aesculapian diary connected alleged COVID “long haulers.” The survey recovered that 68 percent of those hospitalized for COVID-19 had astatine slightest 1 ongoing grounds six months pursuing the onset of the diseases. At 12 months, astir fractional — 49 percent — continued to person astatine slightest 1 symptom.

The survey followed astir 1,300 patients of a infirmary successful Wuhan, China, the portion wherever the microorganism archetypal emerged.

The UMC COVID-19 Recovery Clinic is located astatine 4231 N. Rancho Drive, wrong UMC’s Rancho Quick Care location. Appointments are required. Community members tin sojourn www.umcsn.com/COVIDrecovery or telephone 702-383-2019 for much information. Depending connected the patient’s security coverage, a referral from a superior attraction doc whitethorn beryllium required.

Contact Mary Hynes astatine mhynes@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 connected Twitter.