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A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
10/31/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - This October, Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Medical Center held two sessions of its "Mammos and Massages" event, creating a welcoming, comfortable, and supportive environment for women to receive their yearly mammograms.
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10/31/2024 - WVNS by: Brandi Blake
LEWISBURG, WV - West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) students can now complete a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree as they complete their medical education.
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10/31/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health honors October’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month by highlighting special programs and support offered to grieving families.
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10/31/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Patricia Kelmar
CHARLESTON, WV - Congress members are in their home districts gearing up for Election Day.
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10/31/2024 - The Journal by: Toni Milbourne
MARTINSBURG, WV - The return of the Senior Expo, which has been on hiatus for five years, was met with a welcoming crowd of seniors and others who arrived at the Holiday Inn for the informative event on Wednesday.
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10/31/2024 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Mariah Muhammad
MORGANTOWN, WV - Becker's asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their most beneficial partnerships in 2024.
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10/31/2024 - The Inter-Mountain by: Edgar Kelley
ELKINS, WV - Vandalia Health’s Davis Medical Center hosted an open house for its staff members this week to get an exclusive look at the region’s latest in cardiac imaging technology.
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10/31/2024 - MetroNews by: Katherine Skeldon
CHARLESTON, WV - It’s that time of year again as Affordable Care Act navigators and health care advocates encourage everyone to enroll in ACA Marketplace Plans after 25 million still lack the coverage they need to stay healthy.
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10/31/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Fred Pace
POINT PLEASANT, WV - Rivers Health, a member of Marshall Health Network, has begun construction on a new emergency department.
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10/31/2024 - WVXU by: Abigail Ruhman
CHARLESTON, WV - High health care costs are a significant concern for Hoosiers and lawmakers.
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10/31/2024 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
MORGANTOWN, WV - Newsweek has named two Morgantown hospitals as the two best in the state in its America’s Best-In-State Hospitals 2025 ranking.
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10/30/2024 - Mon Health
WESTON, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Wellness Committee is excited to launch the winter 5K season with the Annual Gobble Gallop, a 5K Walk/Run on Thanksgiving Day, November 28.
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10/30/2024 -
CHARLESTON, WV - Every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke, and on World Stroke Day doctors and survivors are encouraging everyone to learn the signs of what a stroke is and what it looks like.
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10/30/2024 - Marshall Health Network
HUNTINGTON, WV - St. Mary’s Medical Center, a member of Marshall Health Network, is pleased to welcome cardiac electrophysiologist Kofi Osei, M.D. to its growing network of providers.
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10/30/2024 - MetroNews by: Katherine Skeldon
SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - The Mountain State’s first comprehensive orthopedic hospital is being welcomed to the Charleston community.
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10/30/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Medical Center has been named one of the best hospitals in the United States and West Virginia by Newsweek in their America’s Best-In-State Hospitals 2025 ranking.
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10/30/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - Eight hospitals in West Virginia have been included on Newsweek’s list of the best in-state hospitals for 2025.
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10/30/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Gynecologists, Dr. Christine Wilson and Dr. John Sunyecz have been named among the community’s top choices in the 2024 Herald-Standard Community Choice Awards.
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10/29/2024 - WVNews by: Matt Harvey
MORGANTOWN, WV - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography unit will visit Hardy County offering three-dimensional (3D) digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.
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10/29/2024 - The Intelligencer by: Eric Ayers
WHEELING, WV - The winter shelter operated by The Life Hub in Wheeling is set to open this Friday, and thanks to additional state funding, the organization is taking one step closer toward its goal of becoming a low-barrier shelter available year round.
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10/29/2024 - Hardy Co. Live by: Steven Smoot
CLARKSBURG, WV - Mallie Combs, executive director of the Hardy County Rural Development Authority, remembered the first years after the opening of Corridor H to public use.
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10/29/2024 - CNN
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pediatricians across the country are noting a surge in cases of walking pneumonia.
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10/29/2024 - WBOY by: Jefferson Pan
MORGANTOWN, WV - Governor Justice visited West Virginia University on Monday to sign House Bill 206, which will provide $2 million to the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute for its research on treating Alzheimer’s, food addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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10/29/2024 - WVNS by: Brandi Blake
CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) administrative teams held an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony to debut its new building in Charleston on October 23, 2024.
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10/29/2024 - WVNews by: Matt Harvey
MORGANTOWN, WV - Vandalia Health’s Mon Health Heart & Vascular Center has achieved a significant milestone by performing its first Barostim™ Baroreflex Activation Therapy implant, officials said.
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10/28/2024 - The Exponent Telegram by: Damian Phillips
BRIDGEPORT, WV - Students from South Harrison and Mountaineer Middle School took a tour and completed a hands-on demonstration at the Robert C. Byrd National Aerospace Education Center on Friday.
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10/28/2024 - WTAP by: Shyla Florence
PARKERSBURG, WV - Over the past month, we’ve provided an in-depth look into the fight against breast cancer.
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10/28/2024 - Times West Virginian by: Eric Cravey
FAIRMONT, WV - Three weeks after her 40th birthday, in May 2022, Shannon Constable-Vasconcellos followed medical conventional wisdom and had her very first mammogram, which she had scheduled a year in advance.
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10/28/2024 - WBOY by: Sam Gorski
MORGANTOWN, WV - Breast cancer survivors weren’t put off by some chilly winds Saturday morning as they gathered for the yearly WVU Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Survivor Walk which was held this year on Mountaineer Field.
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10/28/2024 - WVNews by: John G. Miller
MORGANTOWN, WV - Good leaders have a way of envisioning future development, of seeing the potential and the pitfalls.
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