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12/20/2024 - WVNS by: Jessica Phillips
MONROE COUNTY, WV - A mobile lung cancer screening unit will make its way to Monroe and Nicholas Counties in December 2024.
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12/20/2024 - WVNS by: Jessica Phillips
PRINCETON, WV - WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital announced the addition of their first location in Raleigh County.
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12/20/2024 - The Journal
MARTINSBURG, WV - Women facing complex gynecologic conditions now have expanded access to world-class surgical care in the Eastern Panhandle.
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12/20/2024 - WSAZ
HUNTINGTON, WV - A woman in our region shows her gratitude by bringing presents to Cabell Huntington Hospital.
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12/20/2024 - Charleston Gazette-Mail by: Jack Bernard
CHARLESTON, WV - ”I mean, it’s great to have health insurance, but if you don’t have a job, it would be pretty doggone tough, wouldn’t it?” — Gov. Jim Justice
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12/20/2024 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - CAMC welcomes new physicians.
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12/20/2024 - WV Public Broadcasting by: Emily Rice
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is the first state in the country to provide statewide protocols for administering whole blood on ambulances.
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12/20/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health System and Davis Health System staff embraced the season's spirit by supporting employees facing financial hardship through the “Heart of the Holidays” program.
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12/20/2024 - WV Press Association
CHARLESTON, WV - In an exciting and surprising moment for the state of West Virginia, Senator Randy Smith, R-Preston, has been selected as the Republican caucus nominee for Senate President for the upcoming term.
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12/20/2024 - WVNews
BRIDGEPORT, WV - In keeping with its mission to deliver high-quality care to patients in North Central West Virginia, WVU Medicine United Hospital Center held a collaborative effort with the West Virginia Hospital Association by welcoming five state lawmakers to the Bridgeport campus Tuesday for a legislative roundtable.
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12/19/2024 - RealWV
CHARLESTON, WV - “Steve was a kind soul. Someone whose compassion left a lasting impact on all who knew him.”
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12/19/2024 - My Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, WV - Mike Ross, President of Mike Ross, Inc., recently made a generous donation to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation’s 2024-2025 campaign.
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12/19/2024 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - Thank you to the departments that sponsored employees and their families through the Heart of the Holidays program.
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12/19/2024 - Marshall Health Network
HUNTINGTON, WV - Chris Wilkins has been named Chief Information and Security Officer for Marshall Health Network (MHN).
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12/19/2024 - WBOY
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine took time to give back on Wednesday as it presented a check worth $10,000 to Animal Friends of NCWV, which will go toward helping it build a new shelter.
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12/19/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - Representatives of the Bowles Rice Foundation presented a $25,000 donation to the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) today (Dec. 18) to assist the RNI in its groundbreaking work in disorders of the brain.
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12/18/2024 - WTAP by: Logan Riggenbach
PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center held a signing ceremony welcoming nursing students.
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12/18/2024 - Mineral News & Tribune
KEYSER, WV - Ali Cadili, MD, MSc, FRCSc, FACS, a renowned surgeon whose research and work has been widely published in medical journals and other peer reviewed publications, has joined the Department of Surgery at Potomac Valley Hospital (PVH) as a general surgeon.
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12/18/2024 - The Inter-Mountain by: Brad Johnson
MARLINTON, WV - Pocahontas Memorial Hospital will receive nearly $2 million in state funding for multiple upgrades, Gov. Jim Justice announced.
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12/18/2024 - WV DoHS
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS), Bureau for Medical Services (BMS) today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a five-year extension of the Evolving West Virginia Medicaid’s Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Section 1115 Demonstration.
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12/18/2024 - WTAP
PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Jackson General Hospital welcomed their first-ever Chief Medical Officer.
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12/18/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Caity Coyne
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that he will leave the duty of appointing a new state health officer to Governor-elect Patrick Morrisey.
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12/18/2024 - WDTV
BRIDGEPORT, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Brian Boone, surgical oncologist at the WVU Cancer Institute, told us about a Total Pancreatectomy Auto Islet Transplant. Watch the video above to learn more.
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12/18/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Taylor Sisk
CHARLESTON, WV - More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.
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12/18/2024 - WBOY by: Barbara Ron
BRIDGEPORT, WV - New or expecting mothers in West Virginia who are dealing with substance abuse will now have a better way of treating it thanks to a new software launched at United Hospital Center (UHC).
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12/17/2024 - Connect-Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT, WV - Recently, staff members at United Hospital Center adopted 45 Angel Tree children and their 20 teen siblings for the upcoming 2024 holiday season.
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12/17/2024 - WTAP by: Andrew Noll
PARKERSBURG, WV - For part two of this month’s Health, WTAP sat down with WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s Pediatric Hospitalist, Dr. Jordan Beckett, to learn more about which doctor is the correct doctor to see depending on your child’s illness and the additional benefits of seeing a pediatric hospitalist.
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12/17/2024 - Daily Excelsior
MARTINSBURG, WV - Dr Vivek Padha, Interventional Radiologist at Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center, was recently appointed as the Radiology Consultant to the Surgeon General of the U S Army.
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12/17/2024 - The Dominion Post
KINGWOOD, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital has been awarded $1.5 million through the West Virginia Rural Hospital Grant Program.
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12/17/2024 - Marshall Health Network
HUNTINGTON, WV - Molly Frick, JD, has been appointed Interim Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for Marshall Health Network (MHN), effective Jan. 2, 2025.
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