NewsScan
A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
02/26/2024 - The Parkersburg News & Sentinel by: Brett Dunlap
PARKERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center is continuing to expand access to care and bringing new services to the local community.
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02/26/2024 - WTOV by: Gianna Dapra
MARSHALL COUNTY, WV - For the last 11 months, construction has been nonstop at WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital.
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02/26/2024 - WOWK by: Blake DeJarnatt
MADISON, WV - Boone Memorial Hospital hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday to launch the Mobile Recovery Clinic, a doctor’s office on wheels that will be going to three areas of Boone County to provide immediate counseling and treatment for those struggling with addiction.
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02/26/2024 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
MORGANTOWN, WV - February is Heart Month and Dr. Bradford Warden, Mon Health Heart and Vascular Center director and chief of cardiology, thought up a way to promote heart health without a doctor’s appointment.
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02/26/2024 - Mon Health
WESTON, WV - Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital is now offering vNOTES (vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery), an advanced technique for hysterectomy and pelvic surgery.
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02/26/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, WV - A new collaborative rural psychiatry residency between the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Rivers Health in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, has earned initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the university announced in a news release.
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02/26/2024 - The Times Leader by: Derek Redd
WHEELING, WV - WVU Medicine ultimately is in the wellness business, said Douglass Harrison, president and CEO of WVU Medicine Wheeling and Reynolds Memorial hospitals.
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02/26/2024 - Grant County Press
PETERSBURG, WV - Healthnet flight crew brought their Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training on site to Grant Memorial Hospital for GMH staff and other community health providers on Feb. 12.
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02/26/2024 - WTAP by: Jacob Krantz
VIENNA, WV - Preparations are being made for the 2024 WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center Heart Ball.
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02/26/2024 - The Inter-Mountain
BUCKHANNON, WV - St. Joseph’s Hospital and the Rotary Club of Buckhannon-Upshur will hold blood screenings on Saturdays in the spring.
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02/26/2024 - WDTV
BRIDGEPORT, WV - February is National Snack Food Month and eating on the go can be easier than you might think.
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02/23/2024 - West Virginia Executive Magazine by: Paige Udermann
CHARLESTON, WV - The opioid epidemic has left West Virginia with staggeringly high rates of addiction, overdoses and associated losses.
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02/23/2024 - West Virginia Executive Magazine by: Anna Moore
CHARLESTON, WV - It’s a word no one wants to hear—cancer.
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02/23/2024 - The Dominion Post by: David Beard
CHARLESTON, WV - The Senate Health Committee moved bills on Thursday dealing with dentures, birth certificates and youth medical records.
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02/23/2024 - Charleston Gazette-Mail by: Ashley Perham
SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - Next week, Thomas Hospital in South Charleston will begin accepting patients into their new pediatric unit, an extension of the WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital.
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02/23/2024 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Mariah Muhammad
WASHINGTON D.C. - Becker's asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their organization's areas of growth for the next few years.
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02/23/2024 - WSAZ by: Curtis Johnson
HUNTINGTON, WV - Weeks after a WSAZ Investigation that examined the lack of ambulance service in Wayne County, leaders have adopted an excess levy for the May primary ballot.
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02/23/2024 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Medical Center is proud to offer visits from its therapy animals to both patients and staff when they’re in need of a little pick-me-up.
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02/23/2024 - West Virginia Executive Magazine by: Kenzie Dye
CHARLESTON, WV - Health care updates from around the state.
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02/23/2024 - Valley Health
ROMNEY, WV - Five Valley Health hospitals have been recognized as 2024 Top 100 Hospitals by The Chartis Center for Rural Health.
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02/23/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Fred Pace
HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Health Network Arena in downtown Huntington now reflects a new name, but continues the same vision it had under its previous name, Mountain Health Network Arena.
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02/23/2024 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health System is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Sellaro as the inaugural participant in its Administrative Fellowship Program.
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02/23/2024 - WOWK by: Jessica Patterson
HUNTINGTON, WV - A new pediatric cardiology center is officially open in Cabell County.
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02/22/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Caity Coyne
CHARLESTON, WV - Months after West Virginia’s congressional delegation called on the national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to implement a new treatment model to alleviate stress on EMS, lawmakers in the Senate advanced a bill that would do similar for private insurers in the state.
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02/22/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Ellen Allen
CHARLESTON, WV - If you’ve been living anywhere other than under a rock, chances are you’ve seen a headline or two recently regarding a measles outbreak that is continuing to spread.
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02/22/2024 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Roger Adkins
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would place limits on drug pricing and require more transparency from pharmacy benefit managers.
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02/22/2024 - West Virginia Watch by: Caity Coyne
CHARLESTON, WV - Members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that would, once again, limit what supplies harm reduction programs can distribute to their clients across West Virginia.
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02/22/2024 - WOWK by: Isaac Taylor, Mark Curtis
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia State Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill attempting to reign in so-called PBMs, or Pharmacy Benefits Managers, to help control big disparities in drug prices and reimbursements to pharmacies from PEIA.
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02/22/2024 - The Dominion Post
CHARLESTON, WV - There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority.
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02/22/2024 - The Inter-Mountain
MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Medicine Children’s Heart Center is now the West Virginia affiliate for Project ADAM, helping to provide schools and community centers with life-saving automated external defibrillator (AED) education.
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