NewsScan
A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
11/29/2023 - WDTV by: Kajah Watkins
BRIDGEPORT, WV - Tuesday is Giving Tuesday, a national movement supporting organizations by donating to charity, and United Hospital Center has many different programs that help local families, not only during the holidays, but all year round.
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11/29/2023 - WDTV by: Frank Egan
MORGANTOWN, WV - For the first time in Morgantown, doctors were able to perform two contrast enhanced ultrasounds at WVU Medicine Children’s thanks to a new tool.
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11/29/2023 - The Inter-Mountain
BUCKHANNON, WV - Dr. Jamie Miller, WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital Emergency Room physician, received the Preceptor of the Year Award for the Central East Region from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM).
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11/29/2023 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health System celebrated Spirit Week to support local United Ways of Monongalia, Preston, Marion, Lewis, Upshur, and Gilmer Counties.
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11/29/2023 - Marshall Health Network
HUNTINGTON, WV - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC), a member of Marshall Health Network, Inc. (MHN), has been recognized in the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Nursing Homes ratings for 2024.
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11/29/2023 - CAMC
CHARLESTON, WV - CAMC's information technology team has earned the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition as a certified level nine.
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11/29/2023 - WWNR Radio
WELCH, WV - Welch Community Hospital is one of 11 West Virginia hospitals recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review for excellent nurse communication.
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11/28/2023 - WV Public Broadcasting by: Emily Rice
CHARLESTON, WV - According to multiple studies, Boone and Logan counties have the highest rates of depression in the nation.
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11/28/2023 - Becker's Hospital Review by: Erica Carbajal
WASHINGTON D.C. - COVID-19 hospitalizations are ticking back up in the U.S. after more than two months of mostly trending downward or remaining flat, according to the latest available data from the CDC.
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11/28/2023 - MetroNews by: Hoppy Kercheval
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia has a weight problem.
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11/28/2023 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette by: Ali Hajiran, M.D.
MORGANTOWN, WV - Every November, the arrival of Movember once again beckons a sea of mustaches, stylish and audacious, to grace the faces of men across the globe.
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11/28/2023 - The Wall Street Journal by: Andy Kessler
WASHINGTON D.C. - At healthcare conferences, someone always asks, “What if there was a magic pill?”
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11/28/2023 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) is preparing for the next phase of human trials for a potentially groundbreaking "smart pill."
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11/28/2023 - My Buckhannon
ELKINS, WV - As part of National Rural Health Day, Davis Health System (DHS) announced two hospitals have been recognized with 2023 Performance Leadership Awards for excellence.
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11/28/2023 - Rivers Health
POINT PLEASANT, WV - Melanie Akers, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, has been named vice president of women’s and children’s services for Marshall Health Network.
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11/28/2023 - The Inter-Mountain
ELKINS, WV - Davis Health System is happy to welcome Dr. Ebba Ebba to its Davis Medical Center (DMC) Pediatric team.
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11/28/2023 - The Inter-Mountain
PHILIPPI, WV - Kathy Wilson, RN, BSN recently passed the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality exam.
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11/28/2023 - Hardy Co. Live
MORGANTOWN, WV - The Mon Health Progressing ThroughPostpartum Program (P3) was recently awarded the West Virginia Rural Health Association (WVRHA) Award for Excellence in Rural Health.
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11/28/2023 - Connect Bridgeport
MORGANTOWN, WV - LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Calhoun, Lewis, and Upshur counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.
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11/28/2023 - The Intelligencer by: Joselyn King
WHEELING, WV - The idea of a free health clinic at Madison Elementary School through a partnership with WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital is again being discussed by school officials.
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11/28/2023 - Boone Memorial Health
MADISON, WV - Boone Memorial Health held its Third Annual Community Drive-Through Thanksgiving Dinner on Monday, November 20, at Scott High School in Madison from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
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11/27/2023 - Charleston Gazette-Mail by: Jen Laws
CHARLESTON, WV - Government safety net programs are meant to help West Virginians, not put people and families in debt.
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11/27/2023 - The Hill by: Patty Jeffrey
WASHINGTON D.C. - America’s health care workforce shortage has posed a threat to patient care for many years, particularly in medically underserved communities, both rural and urban.
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11/27/2023 - The Weirton Daily Times by: Steven Allen Adams
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that his administration is still working on the budget bill for next fiscal year to see where the money for a 5% state employee pay raise will come from to cover proposed health insurance premium increases.
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11/27/2023 - WDTV
FAIRMONT, WV - WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center will be hosting an American Red Cross blood drive next week.
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11/27/2023 - The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, WV - The WVU Medicine Diabetes Education Center (DEC) is ADA accredited and works diligently to positively affect the health of those living with the disease through inpatient and outpatient services, including blood glucose monitoring, insulin and non-insulin injection training, hypoglycemia treatment, meal planning and carbohydrate counting, medication management, and physical activity counseling.
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11/27/2023 - WVNews by: Jacob Martin
MORGANTOWN, WV - Health care providers at WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital are preparing to work some holiday magic for those in their care over the holiday season.
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11/27/2023 - Mon Health
MORGANTOWN, WV - Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital joins a premier group of organizations and becomes one of two hospitals in West Virginia that have received Pathway to Excellence® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
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11/27/2023 - The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON, WV - Pagett Dusic joined the Marshall Health Network strategic marketing, planning and business development team as the integrated communications manager.
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11/27/2023 - The Inter-Mountain
BUCKHANNON, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital is bringing awareness about the prevalence of breast cancer and lung cancer through the “Pink and Pearl Campaign.”
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