NewsScan

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Nurse retention remains a major challenge for U.S. hospitals, as emotional fatigue and generational differences reshape how healthcare leaders support their nursing teams.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 1 in 6 parents have skipped or delayed vaccinating their children against diseases other than COVID-19 or the flu, according to a new poll from The Washington Post and health care policy nonprofit KFF.

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TERRA ALTA, WV - Every day, LaRanda Schoolcraft drives five minutes down the hill from her Terra Alta home to visit the family member she calls her “person.”

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CHARLESTON, WV - In state legislatures around the country, medication abortion has emerged as the central focus of the fight over abortion rights.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - A recent report by the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform predicts that 13 rural West Virginia hospitals are in danger of closure, with five of those 13 at immediate risk of closing in the next two to three years.

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BECKLEY, WV - A ruling on a permanent injunction to block local and state education officials from rejecting religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory vaccination law as mandated by Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s January executive order is likely still weeks away.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Getting rid of West Virginia’s mandates for school vaccinations would be “a step in the wrong direction” for public health, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Thursday.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Senator Jim Justice, who vetoed a bill that would have loosened West Virginia mandatory school vaccinations while he was governor, said the current conflict over vaccination requirements “is plain, out and out nuts.”

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CHARLESTON, WV - For the first time since the COVID-19 vaccine was released, this year a federal health agency put new restrictions on who can get the shot.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia’s school year began with confusion over the state’s mandatory child immunization law, and matters are only getting worse.

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