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MARTINSBURG, WV - On Sept. 14, 18 sites throughout the Eastern Panhandle will be home to Appalachian Save a Life Day, where tables will be set up, and volunteers will distribute free naloxone and the training required to use it.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals will serve as the official training partner of the 2023 Men’s Continental Volleyball Championship. Thomas Hospitals will provide athletic training and orthopedic support to athletes from across the globe as they compete during the six-day tournament at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center Sept. 5-10, 2023.

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

MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Nicholas and Upshur counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.

CLARKSBURG, WV - While many people across the nation celebrate Labor Day with cookouts and holiday get-togethers, there are also plenty of workers in essential industries who do not get the day off.

HUNTINGTON, WV - For the second consecutive year, Cabell Huntington Hospital, a member of Mountain Health Network, has been named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers in West Virginia for 2023.

MORGANTOWN, WV - What do you want to be when you grow up?

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine is in the process of expanding its Clinical Advancement for Professional Excellence Program for bedside nurses.

FAIRMONT, WV - WVU Medicine’s Fairmont Medical Center has open its new skilled nursing unit to the public, the first phase of a planned $100 million expansion of the hospital.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital Plastic Surgery Team offers an invaluable service to pediatric cancer patients, using their skills to reconstruct and improve the appearance and functionality of parts of the body affected by cancer resection.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - The WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute recently announced the addition of Nestor F. Dans, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon specializing in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery.

RAVENSWOOD, WV - For 15 plus years the Jackson County Family Resource Network and WVU Jackson General Hospital have hosted a free Community Baby Shower.

HURRICANE, WV - Thirteen patients were served with potentially lifesaving lung screenings when Valley Health Systems, Inc. hosted LUCAS — WVU Cancer Institute’s mobile lung cancer screening unit — at Valley Heath’s Hurricane Health Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - Creating a healthier workforce was the focus of a discussion Thursday at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s annual business summit at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV - On Thursday, leaders from Marshall Health, Marshall University and Mountain Health Network announced the creation of a new integrated academic health system at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s annual business summit in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, WV - In July, the Secretary of State Office announced that Gilmer County led the state in the percentage of new business growth with a total of eight new business registrations and a growth rate of 2.45 percent.

CHARLESTON, WV - Charleston Area Medical Center and Mon Health came together and created Vandalia Health a year ago Friday.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Growing numbers of maternity units are closing across the country, but one Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine rural hospital is bucking that trend.

FAIRMONT, WV - A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Thursday for WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing Unit.

CLARKSBURG, WV - Healthy Minds-Clarksburg and West Virginia Prevention Solutions partnered up Thursday to host a community event for International Overdose Awareness Day, which is recognized on Aug. 31.

HINTON, WV - Area residents are invited to attend Making Health Happen, a community health screening event, Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Summers County Memorial Building in Hinton.

WHEELING, WV - After 39 years at WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital delivering more than 15,000 babies, Dr. Peter Bala jokes he has added “more than the population of Moundsville” to the city.

RIPLEY, WV - Dr. John A. Wade Jr. has spent the last 50 years in medicine in and around Jackson County.

CHARLESTON, WV - Staffing shortages place an immense strain on the entire health care system, leaving hospitals and medical centers overwhelmed and unable to provide optimal care for patients.

BECKLEY, WV - Jan-Care is sending a team down to Florida to help provide aid for Hurricane Idalia survivors.

CHARLESTON, WV - Communities all over the world affected by substance use have honored the ones they have lost to the epidemic.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Each year, the Center for Organ Replacement and Education (CORE) recognizes hospitals for these efforts.

WHITE HALL, WV - Mon Health Marion Neighborhood Hospital has been infection free since its opening on Dec. 14, 2021, over 600 days and counting.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Huntington’s Kitchen, a community outreach program of Cabell Huntington Hospital, has announced its cooking class schedule for September 2023.

CHARLESTON, WV - Across rural America, where poverty rates run high, health woes are a fact of life and the drug epidemic has formed a stranglehold, the struggle is being compounded by the shredding of the community fabric and the loss of the institutions that stitch that fabric together.