For immediate release: Sept. 24, 2009
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New director of operations and business development for Las Vegas joins University of Nevada School of Medicine clinical practice
David Rencher will lead practice's day-to-day operations in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—David Rencher, recently chief executive officer of Desert View Regional Medical Center, has joined University Health System as director of operations and business development. University Health System is the statewide clinical practice of the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Rencher will provide direction for the day-to-day operations of University Health System, including the administrative and strategic direction in planning, monitoring and managing the operations of the clinical practice, in Las Vegas.
Rencher has more than 20 years of experience in the hospital and health care services industry.
He most recently led the construction, licensure, certification and opening of Desert View Regional Medical Center in Pahrump, Nevada. The $36 million, 50-bed center serves a community of 38,000.
Before opening the medical center, Rencher was president and chief executive officer of Chippewa County War Memorial Hospital, a non-profit, 133-bed facility in Michigan.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.