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HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network is offering the following community events and screenings for the second half of December.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - The development of the WV Consolidated State Laboratories Facility continues to make progress.

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 - Rural hospitals are indispensable to the health of 46 million people in America.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - The United Hospital Center held its 25th annual “Celebration of Life” for cancer survivors on Sunday, bringing together cancer patients, survivors, physicians, nurses, and other caregivers to raise awareness about the battle against cancer.

CHARLESTON, WV - Despite losing his Republican primary in May, West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair is thankful for the opportunity afforded him by his colleagues to lead the legislative body for nearly four years.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - A WVU Medicine United Hospital Center radiologic technology student recently captured first place in a research paper competition at the 70th annual West Virginia Society of Radiologic Technologist conference.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy is beginning to act on its growing backlog of alleged violations to the state’s contract pharmacy access law, despite multiple drug industry lawsuits which aim to halt S.B. 325’s enforcement.

MORGANTOWN, WV - There will be a planned power outage on the WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital campus this weekend.

CHARLESTON, WV - Providing consistent, high-quality health care is difficult and complex, and because frontline workers who directly interact with patients are critical to achieving that, attracting, retaining and motivating these staff is essential.

OHIO COUNTY, WV - WVU Medicine Wheeling and Reynolds Memorial hospitals inducted a new class Thursday to its aspiring nursing program.

CHARLESTON, WV - Behavioral health professionals providing mental health and substance use disorder services in underserved communities across West Virginia may now have a chance to receive student loan repayment assistance, according to a release.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The accreditation committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded reaccreditation to Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Medical Center Laboratory, based on the results of a recent on-site inspection.

RIPLEY, WV - The Jackson County Commission approved the $15,000 from opioid litigation money requested by the Breath of Life Recovery.

West Liberty, WV - West Liberty University (WLU) is pleased to announce the donation of a state-of-the-art ultrasound machine to its Physician Assistant (PA) Program, generously provided by WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital’s CEO, Douglass Harrison, with donation efforts coordinated by Dr. Rajai Khoury.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia First Foundation board voted Thursday to approve the organization’s first grant awards from opioid settlement funds.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Rivers Health, a member of the Marshall Health Network, has been awarded $7 million in Rural Hospital Grant funding.

MORGANTOWN, WV - An annual 5K is returning to the Rosenbaum Family House for its fifth year.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals, part of the West Virginia University Health System (Morgantown, W.Va.), opened a new hybrid operating room (OR) at Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston, W.Va., according to a news release.

WEIRTON, WV - Weirton Council Monday approved a set of resolutions making adjustments to bonds established to fund projects at Weirton Medical Center, ahead of the transition of the hospital into the West Virginia University Medicine system.

CHARLESTON, WV - In highly polarized times, there remains at least one thing most Americans can agree on: The financial side of the country’s health care industry is a nightmare.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Medical Center proudly announces a medical milestone with the successful completion of its first Aquablation® therapy procedure using advanced HYDROS™ technology.

BLUEFIELD, WV - The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program will be relaunched by Bluefield University in January 2025.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Junior College School of Nursing at Mon Health and Charleston Area Medical Center campuses celebrated nursing graduates during special pinning ceremonies held last month in Charleston and Morgantown.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has made “significant improvement” in addressing a backlog of uncompleted autopsy reports this year, lawmakers were told Tuesday.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark was one of five WVU Medicine hospitals to be named a 2025 High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Hospital Association (WVHA) on Dec. 11 expressed profound gratitude to Governor Jim Justice and members of the West Virginia Legislature for approving a critical $40 million grant program designed to support and sustain rural hospitals across the Mountain State.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In October 2024, heart surgeons with the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia, performed the world’s first robotic aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass (RAVCAB) procedure.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year aimed at having more information about an incredibly important and heartbreaking topic: the trends behind the deaths of infants and children.

PRINCETON, WV - After being rescheduled because of cold weather last week, the City of Princeton’s annual Christmas parade marched down Mercer Street Tuesday evening.