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CHARLESTON, WV - The state of West Virginia has reached a deal with a New York-based development group to sell four state-run long-term care facilities for $60 million, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday.

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

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.

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

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.

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 - 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.

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.

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

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network-Hoops Family Children’s Hospital (HFCH) and the Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation have launched an ambassador program that celebrates pediatric patients and the physicians, nurses and therapists who provide them with extraordinary care.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In the past 11 years, Albert Wright Jr. has overseen one of the most transformative periods in the history of West Virginia’s health care system.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Zachary Curtis, MD, has joined Vandalia Health’s team of cardiovascular specialists, bringing extensive experience in cardiology and specialized training in interventional procedures to his new role.

BUCKHANNON, WV - Often during the summer months, local residents are soaking in the sun, working hard, on vacation, traveling to sporting events, or simply relaxing in the air conditioning at home.

MORGANTOWN, WV - A new automated external defibrillator is now on-site at Miracle Field in Mylan Park thanks to a collaboration between SteppingStones, WVU Medicine Children’s Heart Center and Project ADAM.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network announced today that Shawn Bastin, Executive Director of Ancillary Professional and Support Services at Rivers Health (RH), has been named Interim President of Rivers Health, effective Monday, Aug. 18.

CHARLESTON, WV - Jenny Keener is no stranger to substance use disorder.

FAIRLEA, WV - Guests at the State Fair of West Virginia have the chance to access health screenings thanks to the Vandalia Health CAMC Greenbrier Valley Medical Center.

BECKLEY, WV - Beckley smoke and vape shops could face tighter regulations thanks to a new ordinance.

CLARKSBURG, WV - Families and friends gathered at the Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center on Wednesday evening to celebrate the latest graduates of the WVU School of Nursing Bridgeport Campus Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia courts and public policy leaders continue to haggle over the state’s mandatory vaccination law.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week.

MONTANA - There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Ryght AI traveled down country roads to find the newest member of its growing clinical trial site collection.

CHARLESTON, WV - Officials overseeing West Virginia’s public charter school system plan to advise the schools to accept exemptions to mandatory vaccination policies on religious grounds if they’re approved by state health officials.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network announces the expansion of its complimentary valet service to include the main entrance of the Robert and Lena Shell Medical Outpatient Pavilion, located on the campus of Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH), beginning Monday, Aug. 11.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Peak Health, the WVU Health System’s integrated health insurance company, has announced a new partnership to serve as the employee health benefits administrator for Williamson Health and Wellness Center and Williamson Memorial, a federally qualified health center based in Mingo County, West Virginia.

RALEIGH COUNTY, WV - The Vandalia Health CAMC Cancer Center in Beckley cut the ribbon on its brand new mobile PET and CT scanner.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Ather Syed, MD, is joining UHC Oncology, having finished his hematology/oncology fellowship at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Buffalo, N.Y.

CHARLESTON, WV - A new West Virginia law overturns a long-standing mandate that medical professionals treat newborns’ eyes with an ointment meant to prevent pink eye or potentially blindness if the baby comes into contact with bacteria or a sexually transmitted disease in the birthing canal.