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08/16/2024 - Times West Virginian by: Esteban Fernandez
FAIRMONT, WV - The Marion County Chamber of Commerce recognized WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center with the 2024 Francis Pierpont Visionary Award.
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08/16/2024 - WTOV by: Olivia Zinn
MARSHALL COUNTY, WV - WVU Medicine signed four additional nurses from West Virginia Northern Community College to its aspiring nurse program on Thursday.
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08/16/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Together as Vandalia Health, Mon Health System, CAMC Health System, and Davis Health System are identifying areas of process improvements and efficiencies to elevate their practices.
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08/16/2024 - WVNews by: John Mark Shaver
MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute unveiled its new NeuroPerformance Innovation Center on Thursday, which operates as a base for not only the comprehensive Concussion and Brain Injury Program but for research into enhancing athletic performance.
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08/15/2024 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Paige Haeffele, Mina Head, Kate Muldoon, Rosie Talaga and Claire Wallace
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Academic medical center CEOs play a crucial role in the current care delivery system.
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08/15/2024 - WV Press Association
CHARLESTON, WV - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and actress, Halle Berry, on Aug. 14, hosted a roundtable discussion on the Advancing Menopause and Mid-Life Women’s Health Act, bipartisan legislation that would boost federal research on menopause and would—for the first time—coordinate the federal government’s existing programs related to menopause and mid-life women’s health.
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08/15/2024 - Charleston-Gazette Mail by: Justin Leventhal
CHARLESTON, WV - Health care in the United States is expensive.
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08/15/2024 - WTRF by: Brendan McNamara
WHEELING, WV - With the end of August in sight and Labor Day just around the corner, it is almost time to send the kids back to school.
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08/15/2024 - WV Press Association
CHARLESTON, WV - Joseph Choo, MD and Richard Han, MD, along with the CAMC cardiac imaging team, performed the first tricuspid valve repair in West Virginia, Aug. 9, using the minimally invasive technique, TriClip™ transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system.
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08/15/2024 - The Exponent Telegram by: Damian Phillips
CLARKSBURG, WV - Harrison County commissioners on Wednesday voted to keep the old Quiet Dell School building in the county’s possession and to provide funding for its preservation for years to come.
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08/15/2024 - The Shinnston News by: Stephen Smoot
MORGANTOWN, WV - Few have not heard of the problem affecting the health of most West Virginians.
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08/14/2024 - WV Press Association
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health’s (DH) Office of Emergency Medical Services has announced a major milestone in statewide efforts to advance emergency medical care.
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08/14/2024 - The Weston Democrat
WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital is hosting a 2024 hospital competition for staff in honor of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.
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08/14/2024 - The Exponent Telegram
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health System is pleased on Tuesday announced that Janel Mudry, Tamara Newsome, and Regan Siko were recently appointed to the West Virginia Hospital Association’s (WVHA) Leadership Academy (The Academy) class of 2025.
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08/14/2024 - Marshall Health Network
HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network is proud to recognize Dwight Saulle, MD, neurosurgeon at St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC), a member of Marshall Health Network, for the completion of his 200th SI-Joint fusion implant, a minimally invasive procedure that is proven to reduce pain and improve the quality of life for those with for sacroiliac (SI) joint pain.
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08/14/2024 - WDTV
BUCKHANNON, WV - Patients in Buckhannon now have the opportunity to go see a doctor without a prior appointment at the Mon Health Stonewall Primary Care Office.
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08/14/2024 - My Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has received the five-star award once again from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for patient recommendation.
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08/14/2024 - My Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, WV - Chris Justice was just barely 20 years old when he went to work as a registered nurse at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.
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08/14/2024 - The Journal by: Ainsley Hall
MARTINSBURG, WV - Berkeley County Schools has partnered with WVU Medicine to bring the Education Elevators program to Tuscarora Elementary School.
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08/13/2024 - WOWK by: Christian Meffert
CHARLESTON, WV - On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, we talk about the first responder suicide rate, the importance of diversity, the 2025 Legislative Session and clean energy investments.
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08/13/2024 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Kristin Kuchno
MORGANTOWN, WV - Amid recent transactions and acquisitions, some health systems have readjusted their leadership teams.
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08/13/2024 - MetroNews by: Aaron Parker
CHARLESTON, WV - The Vandalia Health Network is continuing to reach people across the Mountain State with their FARMacy program.
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08/13/2024 - WDTV
BRIDGEPORT, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Umer Najib, the director of the WVU Medicine Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Program, talks about what the program is and how it works.
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08/13/2024 - ARH
BECKLEY, WV - John Ellison knows his childhood wasn’t much different from that of most anyone growing up in the coalfields of southern West Virginia during and immediately after the Great Depression.
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08/13/2024 - WOAY
BECKLEY, WV - The Raleigh County Commission on Aging (RCCA) aims to end Alzheimer’s.
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08/13/2024 - My Buckhannon
MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute has been named to the 2024 Becker’s Hospital Review “100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Heart Programs.”
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08/12/2024 - MetroNews by: Mike Nolting
BRIDGEPORT, WV - The newest small-format hospital from Mon Health/Vandalia Health Care in Harrison County could be operational by 2026, according to Vandalia Executive Vice President David Goldberg.
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08/12/2024 - WVNews by: Daisy Gibbons
CLARKSBURG, WV - A medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose is readily available to West Virginians.
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08/12/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely
CHARLESTON, WV - Ebony Moore has been an in-home caregiver for elderly residents in Kanawha County for 17 years.
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08/12/2024 - The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Hospitals has been granted accreditation for nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
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