NewsScan

POINT PLEASANT, WV - Justin Turner, MBA, has been named the chief operating officer for Rivers Health, a member of Marshall Health Network.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health’s Progressing Through Postpartum (P3) Program will represent Mon Health System at the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care Symposium in San Diego.

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

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

CHARLESTON, WV - Critics of a bill awaiting Governor Jim Justice’s signature or veto could make it more difficult for some harm reduction organizations to help people struggling with substance abuse disorder.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Delegate Joe Statler was at an education conference out of state when he heard the governor vetoed a bill intended to provide $2 million support groundbreaking research at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health System is celebrating Certified Nurses Day by honoring the board-certified nurses on staff across the system.

CHARLESTON, WV - If private and parochial schools are allowed to set their own immunization policies under new legislation, West Virginia’s Catholic schools would continue to abide by existing standards.

CHARLESTON, WV - While hospitals are constantly trying to address staffing issues, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortage of dementia care specialists threatens to bring about a full-blown crisis for Alzheimer's disease care in the Mountain State.

CHARLESTON, WV - As lawmakers in West Virginia overwhelmingly passed legislation this session to prohibit syringe service programs from distributing safe smoking materials — a medically sound option to decrease more risky intravenous drug use — experts who work in harm reduction have been left to ponder one question: Why?

CLARKSBURG, WV - Grab some tissues because allergy season is approaching.

LEWISBURG, WV - The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) will now offer a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences degree program.

CHARLESTON, WV - Two area hospitals are celebrating their successful roles in the arrival of West Virginia’s newest residents — some of them born as the result of complicated pregnancies and complex deliveries.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s is partnering with Nexstar Media Group to host a Mediathon on Wednesday, March 20.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Fourteen-year-old Caitlyn is a student and acompetitive cheerleader in Morgantown.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Day of Giving returns Wednesday, andsupporters can earmark donations to go to Rosenbaum Family House.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network (MHN) recently honored employees who contribute to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts and who promote culture and belonging across the system.

MORGANTOWN, WV - Hilda Rosenbaum traveled all over the country, but it wasn’t for leisure.

CHARLESTON, WV - The streets of Charleston will be filled with cyclists in May.

CHARLESTON, WV - The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day.

MILLWOOD, WV - The WVU Medicine Jackson General Hospital (JGH) Foundation hosted its annual event on Saturday at the Army National Guard Armory in Millwood.

MARTINSBURG, WV - WVU Hospitals East Foundation officials recently announced that the 37th annual Bernie Hutzler Golf Classic will be held on June 3 at The Club at Cress Creek in Shepherdstown.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center was recently awarded the HeartCARE Center National Distinction of Excellence from the American College of Cardiology for providing world-class patient care through a sustainable quality improvement program.

BRIDGEPORT, WV - Crack! The sound ripped through the warm September afternoon.

CHARLESTON, WV - As medical professionals started to gather outside the governor’s reception room to encourage a veto of a bill loosening school vaccination requirements, Gov. Jim Justice said he has not yet made a decision.

CHARLESTON, WV - On behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the West Virginia Chapter of the AAP (WVAAP), we urge you to veto HB 5105 and protect West Virginia’s children and the public at large from preventable illnesses.

CHARLESTON, WV - Nearly five months after first forming, the private foundation set up to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement funds will have its first executive director, and it is someone already familiar to the foundation.

FAIRMONT, WV - Wednesday afternoon, Joshua Garcia pounded pavement around Fairmont, stopping by high foot traffic businesses and storefronts, placing fliers wherever he could for a new substance use disorder recovery program.

PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center was recently awarded the HeartCARE Center National Distinction of Excellence from the American College of Cardiology for providing world-class patient care through a sustainable quality improvement program.

CHARLESTON, WV - Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. West Virginia has one of the highest incidence rates and worst outcomes for the disease.