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CHARLESTON, WV - Health insurance coverage for West Virginia’s public employees is stable for now due to approved increases in premiums and out-of-pocket expenses beginning in plan year 2026, but costs of the program are expected to keep increasing, with lawmakers searching for solutions.

CHARLESTON, WV - Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet many remain underdiagnosed and undertreated.

CHARLESTON, WV - Charleston Area Medica Center announced a phishing attack may have leaked access to patients’ personal information.

LUBBOCK, TX - A school-aged child hospitalized for measles in Texas, who was not vaccinated, has died, the Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed in a press release Wednesday morning.

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

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS), Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP), is reporting a continuation of a significant reduction in overdose deaths across the state.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Doddridge and Harrison counties offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Hospital Association thanked lawmakers for rejecting a bill that would have repealed the state’s certificate of need program.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Physicians at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute (HVI) are the first in the state and region to perform transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR).

CHARLESTON, WV - If you have never been directly impacted by West Virginia’s Medicaid Program, the Trump proposal to cut $880 billion over 10 years from the federal budget may not seem especially relevant.

CHARLESTON, WV - I heard an old joke about the flu shot.

CHARLESTON, WV - Delegates got cracking on consideration of a bill providing religious and philosophical exemptions to West Virginia’s school vaccination requirements.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said in a post on X that he will continue fighting to repeal the state’s certificate of need laws after a bill died in committee Monday night.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would have repealed the state’s certificate of need laws has died in committee.

CHARLESTON, WV - Lawmakers on the West Virginia House Health Committee on Monday voted down a committee substitute for a bill that would have, as it was proposed, repealed the Certificate of Need process statewide.

PARKERSBURG, WV - The month of February is Heart Health Awareness Month.

CHARLESTON, WV - In a blow to a major agenda item proposed by Gov. Patrick Morrisey, lawmakers in the West Virginia House of Delegates committee voted down yet another attempt to repeal the state’s certificate of need program for health care services.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The expansion of health care facilities in West Virginia will help improve accessibility, enhance patient care and drive economic growth throughout the state.

CHARLESTON, WV - The following statement is made on behalf of the West Virginia Hospital Association (WVHA) HB 2007, relating to repealing the Certificate of Need Program.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center has announced its 2025 scholarship opportunities made available for Mid-Ohio Valley college students pursuing careers in nursing and other health care related fields.

RANSON, WV - Mark O’Hern, president and CEO of WVU Medicine East, announced today the appointment of Nicole Dollison as president and CEO of WVU Medicine Jefferson Medical Center, effective March 10.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center has received the Pathway to Excellence® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Executive Health Care Hall of Fame is an awards program recognizing those who go above and beyond in the health care industry and its supporting industries, including doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, educators, researchers, scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

PRINCETON, WV - WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital unveiled phase one of their newly renovated patient rooms on the fourth floor of the main hospital.

CHARLESTON, WV - Does West Virginia’s vaccine mandate for public school students violate civil liberties? Some in the state Legislature and Governor’s Mansion seem to think so.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network is honored to announce that Cabell Huntington Hospital’s (CHH) Center for Wound Healing is a recipient of RestorixHealth’s highest achievement, the Wound Center of Excellence Award.

CHARLESTON, WV - A bill that would loosen West Virginia’s school mandated vaccine laws took a step forward on Friday.

MORGANTOWN, WV - More than a thousand individual donors attended WVU Medicine Children’s fundraising gala Saturday evening to raise money for a project that would complete the 10th floor of the children’s hospital.

CHARLESTON, WV - The certificate of need program continues to be a major topic of discussion in West Virginia as legislators consider the program’s future in the state.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In the ever-evolving quest to improve treatment for stroke victims, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently performed the first in-human procedure using a new technology to treat strokes caused by blood clots.