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CHARLESTON, WV - Charleston Area Medical Center has been recognized again by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s Best-In-State Employers.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s and WVRC Media will again partner for the WVRC Media Cares for Kids Radiothon to benefit patients and families in need.

CHARLESTON, WV - While announcing the sale of four state-owned senior living facilities to a private company, Gov. Patrick Morrisey assured West Virginians that his administration had rigorously vetted the buyer.

MADISON, WV - Download Flyer Boone Memorial Health is introducing yet another new way for community members to take charge of their heart health with the Healthy Heart Ambassador (HHA) Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program.

CHARLESTON, WV - A lawsuit challenging Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s directive to allow religious exemptions to vaccination requirements has been filed again.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Clay, Kanawha, and Lincoln counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

DAVIS, WV - Tucker County-based Timberline Mountain has filed a lawsuit against the newly-enacted special EMS fee in Tucker County.

CHARLESTON, WV - Governor Patrick Morrisey continues to miss the mark when it comes to building productive relationships with the very lawmakers he needs to achieve his goals.

CHARLESTON, WV - Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center, an affiliate of Vandalia Health, in collaboration with the CAMC Clinical Trials Center, is the first site in the world activated for the Bioflow-48 stent study and has enrolled the first three patients globally, according to an Aug. 7 news release from the medical center.

CHARLESTON, WV - This month, students across West Virginia are returning to school — and at least for now — they have to be vaccinated.

MORGANTOWN, WV - A heart murmur is a common condition that can affect nearly three out of four children at any point during their childhood.

CHARLESTON, WV - Tax credits that have made health insurance affordable for millions of Americans are set to expire at the end of the year, and West Virginia will feel the effects more than most states, a health policy expert said.

MERCER COUNTY, WV - WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital has earned a major milestone in cardiac care.

CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the legislature say they were surprised to hear Gov. Patrick Morrisey announce at a news conference earlier this week that the state had sold four long-term care facilities to Marx Development Group.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine United Hospital Center has been recognized by the Lown Institute for excellence in patient outcomes, receiving an “A” grade on the 2025-26 Lown Institute Hospitals Index for Social Responsibility.

TERRA ALTA, WV - West Virginia Senate President Randy Smith said he was given only minutes of advance notice before Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the state was selling four health care facilities.

CHARLESTON, WV - State Board of Education President Paul Hardesty said the state Board of Education is not made up of “a bunch of unelected bureaucrats” liked they’ve been described by Gov. Patrick Morrisey.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine recently honored the first two graduates of its new Healthcare Epidemiology Certification Program, which aims to train doctors to prevent infections in hospital settings.

MORGANTOWN, WV - A WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital orthopaedic surgeon is one of the first in the country to complete a robotic-assisted hip revision surgery with a tool offering precise customization that leads to better patient outcomes and recovery.

CHARLESTON, WV - CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital in Charleston has become the first hospital in West Virginia to establish a human breast milk depot, giving families a new lifeline for premature and medically fragile infants.

ELKINS, WV - Vandalia Health has responded to Monday’s announcement that the Randolph County Emergency Squad will stop making hospital-to-hospital transports from Davis Medical Center as of Friday morning.

CHARLESTON, WV - Vandalia Health Charleston Area Medical Center, in collaboration with the CAMC Clinical Trials Center, is the first site in the world to be activated for the Bioflow-48 stent study and has enrolled the first three patients globally.

OAK HILL, WV - The Charleston Area Medical Center Medicine in Motion mobile lung CT screening unit will visit the CAMC Telemedicine Center in Princeton on Aug. 26 and Oak Hill’s Oak Leaf Festival on Aug. 30.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health welcomes Ngoc Thai, MD, PhD, to its highly skilled team of surgical specialists.

CHARLESTON, WV - When I heard that President Donald Trump is bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test, I felt sorry for children who will be put through that terrible program.

WHEELING, WV - Officials broke ground on the Robert Sonneborn Family WVU Medicine Children's Outpatient Center on Tuesday morning on the campus of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital.

CHARLESTON, WV - July 30 marked 60 years since the nation’s most popular health care programs, Medicaid and Medicare, were signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine WVU Hospitals, which includes WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, WVU Medicine Children’s, and Fairmont Medical Center, transformed Milan Puskar Stadium into a spellbinding celebration on July 30–31 for its annual employee appreciation picnic, welcoming thousands of employees to a Harry Potter–themed event titled “The Wizarding World of WVU Hospitals.”

CHARLESTON, WV - The seven charter schools in West Virginia have been instructed by the West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board to allow students to use a religious exemption against school vaccines.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Grant, Morgan, Hampshire, and Mineral counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.