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MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health System is celebrating April’s Donate Life Month and joining the Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) to raise awareness about organ, tissue, and cornea donation, and to inspire individuals to register to be an organ donor.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Muhammad Maaz, MD, has joined the team at St Mary’s Pain Relief Specialists and is accepting new patients.

HUNTINGTON, WV - The MitraClip™ procedure is now available at Marshall Health Network to treat individuals suffering from mitral valve regurgitation.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Basketball Hall of Fame coach Bob Huggins will host his fish fry the weekend of April 6.

WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital recently utilized the Mon Health System Ron and Stephanie Stovash Mobile Nursing Lab to run patient simulation drills for staff.

CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Human Services is partnering up with entities in six other states to ensure that people with certain disabilities have the same level of access as the general population does when it comes to asking for help on a suicide and crisis phone line.

CHARLESTON, WV - The 2024 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature was one of the busiest in recent memory.

CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed a bill banning non-binary gender markers on birth certificates.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Gov. Jim Justice had a lot on his plate this week, as he scrambled to handle the hundreds of bills that crossed his desk for a signature, veto or to remain untouched.

MORGANTOWN, WV - We would like to extend our thanks and gratitude for your veto of HB 5105, and for standing firm for the children of West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, WV - In an op-ed published in The Dominion Post, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), wrote about the importance of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and how her partnership with NIH has benefitted West Virginia.

WHEELING, WV - It leads to emergency room visits, impairs mental functioning, and is addicting teens across the US.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The maze of antiseptic, blue-tiled hallways and sterile white labs and pill-making chambers at the back end of the former Mylan plant will late next year be a warm and inviting school to train a new generation of nurses.

WHEELING, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s has established itself as a premier organization dedicated to improving and fortifying the health of young people around the Mountain State.

RIPLEY, WV - Being a leader means coaching, guiding, and inspiring others.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH), St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) and Rivers Health (RH), members of Marshall Health Network, will provide the following events and screenings for the community in April.

MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia native Jessica Alsop knows she has found her calling, working to help WVU Medicine provide high-quality health care throughout the Mountain State.

HUNTINGTON, WV - National Donate Life Month, held each April, is dedicated to encouraging individuals to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to celebrate those who saved lives through the gift of donation.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The Northern West Virginia Ruff Ryders chapter came to visit the WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital on Friday where it gave back to the surgical center through a donation of Easter baskets.

ELKINS, WV - Two representatives from local organizations spoke to the Randolph County Commission about the opioid settlement money it received earlier this year.

CHARLESTON, WV - A Fayette County mom who removed her daughter from virtual school to avoid required vaccinations is upset a bill loosening the policies in schools wasn't signed by the governor.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - The second class of students in the WVU School of Nursing program at WVU Medicine United Hospital Center was recognized Thursday evening in the traditional White Coat Ceremony.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - A flag raising ceremony was held at United Hospital Center in Bridgeport to raise awareness for organ donation.

OHIO VALLEY - Five powerful women from the Ohio Valley have been working hard over the past few weeks to advance heart health and to raise money that will help save lives.

MORGANTOWN, WV - We think our West Virginia kids are incredible!

CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice vetoed a bill loosening vaccination requirements in some schools, drawing praise from healthcare organizations.

CHARLESTON, WV - I am grateful that Governor Jim Justice vetoed House Bill 5105.

WEIRTON, WV - Officials at Weirton Medical Center (WMC) announced that the hospital has signed a letter of intent to affiliate further with the West Virginia University Health System by becoming a full member.

CHARLESTON, WV - That’s a wrap on the 2024 legislative session.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital and the union representing 140 technical workers at the hospital have reached an agreement on a new three-year contract.