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CHARLESTON, WV - “Steve was a kind soul. Someone whose compassion left a lasting impact on all who knew him.”

BUCKHANNON, WV - Mike Ross, President of Mike Ross, Inc., recently made a generous donation to the St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation’s 2024-2025 campaign.

CHARLESTON, WV - Thank you to the departments that sponsored employees and their families through the Heart of the Holidays program.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Chris Wilkins has been named Chief Information and Security Officer for Marshall Health Network (MHN).

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine took time to give back on Wednesday as it presented a check worth $10,000 to Animal Friends of NCWV, which will go toward helping it build a new shelter.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Representatives of the Bowles Rice Foundation presented a $25,000 donation to the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) today (Dec. 18) to assist the RNI in its groundbreaking work in disorders of the brain.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center held a signing ceremony welcoming nursing students.

KEYSER, WV - Ali Cadili, MD, MSc, FRCSc, FACS, a renowned surgeon whose research and work has been widely published in medical journals and other peer reviewed publications, has joined the Department of Surgery at Potomac Valley Hospital (PVH) as a general surgeon.

MARLINTON, WV - Pocahontas Memorial Hospital will receive nearly $2 million in state funding for multiple upgrades, Gov. Jim Justice announced.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS), Bureau for Medical Services (BMS) today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a five-year extension of the Evolving West Virginia Medicaid’s Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Section 1115 Demonstration.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Jackson General Hospital welcomed their first-ever Chief Medical Officer.

CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that he will leave the duty of appointing a new state health officer to Governor-elect Patrick Morrisey.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - In this edition of the WVU Medicine Health Report, Dr. Brian Boone, surgical oncologist at the WVU Cancer Institute, told us about a Total Pancreatectomy Auto Islet Transplant. Watch the video above to learn more.

CHARLESTON, WV - More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - New or expecting mothers in West Virginia who are dealing with substance abuse will now have a better way of treating it thanks to a new software launched at United Hospital Center (UHC).

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Recently, staff members at United Hospital Center adopted 45 Angel Tree children and their 20 teen siblings for the upcoming 2024 holiday season.

PARKERSBURG, WV - For part two of this month’s Health, WTAP sat down with WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s Pediatric Hospitalist, Dr. Jordan Beckett, to learn more about which doctor is the correct doctor to see depending on your child’s illness and the additional benefits of seeing a pediatric hospitalist.

MARTINSBURG, WV - Dr Vivek Padha, Interventional Radiologist at Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center, was recently appointed as the Radiology Consultant to the Surgeon General of the U S Army.

KINGWOOD, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital has been awarded $1.5 million through the West Virginia Rural Hospital Grant Program.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Molly Frick, JD, has been appointed Interim Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for Marshall Health Network (MHN), effective Jan. 2, 2025.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia’s state health officer has stepped down, according to the West Virginia Department of Health.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine are pleased to announce the addition of four new board-certified adult psychiatrists providing comprehensive psychiatric consults for medically ill patients at Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Public health in West Virginia lags severely behind the rest of the country.

MORGANTOWN, WV - For the third straight year, old Saint Nick made his way up into the air to wave at kids at WVU Medicine Children’s.

BUCKHANNON, WV - The holidays provide an opportunity for families to discuss medical care wishes in case of chronic or serious illnesses before crises arise.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) is providing patients greater statewide and regional access to a groundbreaking Alzheimer’s disease treatment.

WHEELING, WV - The Belmont County Health Department advises teachers and parents to watch for symptoms of pediatric pneumonia, which is on the rise in local schools.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mike Plante struggled with his weight for years, but within six months of starting with the injection drug semaglutide, a medication for diabetes that’s also being used for weight-loss, he’s down 65 pounds.

MORGANTOWN, WV - It was a familiar scene to anyone who ran in the Santa Run 5K in 2023—cold and rainy, but filled with around 300 runners who decided to tackle the weather head-on to benefit the Rosenbaum Family House in Morgantown.

LEWISBURG, WV - Gov. Jim Justice issued a proclamation designating December 2024 as Osteopathic Medicine Month in West Virginia, home to the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM).