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A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
03/15/2024 - WTRF by: Colin Roose
WHEELING, WV - It’s hard to have mental health without physical health…and to care for one, you have to care for the other.
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03/15/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Sugar Bar – Sweets + Coffee has partnered with Mon Health Medical Center because of a love for its local care and shared vision of bettering the community it serves.
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03/15/2024 - The Intelligencer by: Joselyn King
WHEELING, WV - The Schiffler Cancer Center at WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital is $9,000 richer following a donation from golfing supporters of “The Dam Man.”
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03/15/2024 - My Buckhannon
PARKERSBURG, WV - The Highmark Foundation today (March 13) announced a $1 million grant over two years to support Food for Mountaineers.
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03/14/2024 - WVNews
LEWISBURG, WV - If you think pulmonologists always focus on a patient’s lungs, you’d be wrong.
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03/14/2024 - WVNews by: Daisy Gibbons
Respiratory illness starting to decline across West Virginia, but still no specific season for COVID
CHARLESTON, WV - As spring approaches, the number of respiratory illnesses — particularly COVID-19 — is starting to decline.
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03/14/2024 - Charleston Gazette-Mail by: Bryan Brown
CHARLESTON, WV - When outsiders think of West Virginia, their minds typically turn to our state’s natural beauty, Appalachian culture, or perhaps our energy industries.
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03/14/2024 - MetroNews by: Katherine Skeldon
CHARLESTON, WV - Recipients joined surgeons and other staff at Charleston Area Medical Center to celebrate a record-breaking year for kidney transplant operations.
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03/14/2024 - WVNews
PARKERSBURG, WV - The Highmark Foundation today (March 13) announced a $1 million grant over two years to support Food for Mountaineers.
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03/14/2024 - The Dominion Post by: Jim Bissett
MORGANTOWN, WV - Here are some of the people you meet on your way, every day: Such as the gent in the other lane who absently glanced over a second or two before the light changed.
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03/14/2024 - WVNews by: Daisy Gibbons
Respiratory illness starting to decline across West Virginia, but still no specific season for COVID
CLARKSBURG, WV - As spring approaches, the number of respiratory illnesses — particularly COVID-19 — is starting to decline.
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03/14/2024 - WTAP by: L.V. Hissem
PARKERSBURG, WV - The Parkersburg Rotary is working with WVU Medicine to provide vouchers for low-cost lab work.
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03/14/2024 - Mineral News & Tribune
FOUNTAIN, WV - The WVU Mineral County Extension Office and community partners will be offering Dining with Diabetes classes beginning Tuesday, April 9, and continuing through Tuesday, April 16 and 23 from 3-5 p.m. at the Fountain United Brethren Church in Fountain.
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03/13/2024 - MetroNews by: Katherine Skeldon
CHARLESTON, WV - Health Officer at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, Dr. Steven Eshenaur, says the passage of a bill allowing parents to choose whether they vaccinate their children against infectious diseases is very much a concern.
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03/13/2024 - MetroNews by: Brad McElhinny
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is ahead of a deadline this week to provide supporting documentation to the U.S. Department of Education over the state’s pledge to maintain proportional levels of support for education as a condition of federal covid relief funds.
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03/13/2024 - WVNews by: Charles Young
CHARLESTON, WV - The annual session of the West Virginia Legislature just concluded on Saturday, but North Central West Virginia lawmakers are already anticipating returning to the state Capitol.
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03/13/2024 - WTAP by: Andrew Noll
PARKERSBURG, WV - Per the CDC, “In the United States in 2020, 1,603,844 new cancer cases were reported and 602,347 people died of cancer.
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03/13/2024 - The Preston County News & Journal by: Matt Harvey
KINGWOOD, WV - Vandalia Health North, composed of Davis Health System and Mon Health System, has announced its inaugural Heart to Heart Award recipients.
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03/13/2024 - ARH
BECKLEY, WV - James Hensley, MLS(ASCP), CIC, MBA, CPHQ, has been named Assistant Vice President of Infection Prevention for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare system.
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03/13/2024 - WVVA by: Charlie Booth
PRINCETON, WV - A new unit at WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital will provide specialized, private care for patients recovering from cardiac conditions or significant health events.
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03/13/2024 - The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, WV - State Treasurer Riley Moore was in Morgantown Tuesday afternoon to present an unclaimed property check worth over $200,000 to Vandalia Health leadership at Mon Health Medical Center.
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03/13/2024 - WBOY by: Barbara Ron
FAIRMONT, WV - A hospital stay may already be stressful enough as it is, but the WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center is starting a new program to ensure that their terminal patients at least pass away with someone by their side.
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03/12/2024 - WSAZ by: Summer Jewell
HUNTINGTON, WV - Hospitals can benefit our communities in a lot of different ways.
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03/12/2024 - WCHS
CHARLESTON, WV - Kanawha County’s leading health official released a statement Monday expressing his concern after state lawmakers passed legislation over the weekend that would allow for vaccine exemptions in schools.
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03/12/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Lori Kersey
CHARLESTON, WV - As a bill that would loosen West Virginia’s school vaccine requirements heads to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice, some medical professionals are urging him not to sign the legislation into law.
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03/12/2024 - WVNS by: Jonathan Forsgren
PRINCETON, WV - Daylight saving time adjustment brings with it more than just sleepy eyes, especially after the dreaded “Spring forward.”
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03/12/2024 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - There's a new push in West Virginia to find more foster parents.
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03/12/2024 - WVNews by: Matt Harvey
MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine is making another investment to secure the future of nursing care for patients in West Virginia and surrounding regions by establishing a new, two-year nursing school directly affiliated with the WVU Health System.
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03/12/2024 - The Morgantown News by: Matt Harvey
MORGANTOWN, WV - The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has reaccredited Mon Health Medical Center’s Sleep Center, citing its demonstrated high-quality patient care and clinical excellence.
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03/12/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - For John F. Brick, M.D., retirement is marked by celebration of a career dedicated to service to the state.
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