The state’s total vacancy rate has been cut roughly in half — to about 13 percent — since Lombardo took office in 2023, while the rate for actively recruited positions has dropped by more than 36 percent.

With the help of the state’s insurance marketplace, Nevada Health Link, Jean Fenolio was able to sign up for new insurance and get coverage for her surgery.

Becerra made the announcement Tuesday while visiting a health care center in Carson City. He followed it up with a roundtable that featured Gov. Steve Sisolak and Heather Korbulic, a staffer for the governor who previously directed the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange.

Nevada’s health insurance exchange is extending its open enrollment period through Friday for people who began applications for coverage but had not finished them by the Sunday deadline, a move exchange officials are hoping will boost registration amid reports of flagging signups during the 45-day period.

The exchange is launching — for the second time in its six-year history — a fully state-run platform to enroll Nevadans in health insurance plans through the individual marketplace. In the simplest of terms, that means no longer will Nevadans sign up for health insurance plans through the federal healthcare.gov platform but through the state-run nevadahealthlink.com website.

The announcement is part of an ongoing process of transitioning from a federal to a state-based platform for health care customers. In 2014, the exchange ended its contract with its initial vendor, Xerox, because of major flaws trying to build a state-specific health insurance web portal. The exchange chose to rely on the federal HealthCare.gov site to provide online services.