A new health card office will soon open in east Las Vegas.

Health card services offered by the Southern Nevada Health District at its East Las Vegas Public Health Center will be unavailable Thursday, Feb. 16 while the program is moved to a new location in the same complex.

The new health cards office, 570 N. Nellis Blvd., Ste. E-12 will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. For more information, visit the health district website, www.SNHD.info.

The East Las Vegas Public Health Center is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (closed on Friday). Services include health cards, birth/death certificates, family planning services (by appointment), children’s exams (by appointment), women’s healthcare services, and immunizations for adults and children.

Health district public health centers are located at: 

The sniffs and sneezes of flu season are just a few weeks away. To combat the illness, the Southern Nevada Health District opened its flu shot clinic Monday.

The health district is offering seasonal flu vaccine for $28, the inhaled version for $43 and the new high-dose shot for people over 65 for $53. It is recommended that everyone 6 months and older get a yearly flu vaccination. Those at the highest risk should get the vaccine including children under 5, adults 65 and older, and pregnant women. The health district says there is plenty of vaccine for everyone this year.

The vaccine clinics are offered at the health district’s three offices.

Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

• Ravenholt Public Health Center, 625 Shadow Lane

Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

Valley Hospital has opened a new facility designed to help get people who have lost physical or mental function back to a more normal life.

The 16-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit will provide state-of-the-art physical and occupational therapy. The focus will be on patients who have suffered brain injuries, strokes or other loss of function. The new center will improve the hospital's neurological services program.

The physical therapy side of the unit features private exercise areas and an ambulation system that helps support patients learning to walk again. The occupational therapy area includes a full-scale kitchen, laundry and bathroom area. The unit will also have a speech therapy area equipped with E-Swallow, an advanced neuromuscular electrical stimulation to help people struggling with the inability to swallow.