NewsScan

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine’s Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center held its 12th annual Night of Recognition Thursday evening, highlighting both the lifesaving works that the organization’s hundreds of employees do and the indomitable spirit of the patients they save.

BUCKHANNON, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital recognizes Sterile Processing Week, October 8-14.

CHARLESTON, WV - More than $33 million in federal funding was awarded to the Bureau for Behavioral Health (BBH) to enhance mental health and substance use prevention services for West Virginians.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In conjunction with the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, West Virginia University Cancer Institute staff members work with primary care clinics, employers and partners to increase breast and cervical cancer screenings in the community.

BUCKHANNON, WV - WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital and the Rotary Club of Buckhannon-Upshur will hold blood screenings on Saturdays on Saturday, Oct. 28 and Nov. 11 at the hospital.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH) and St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC), members of Marshall Health Network (MHN), have been recognized by Donate Life West Virginia for their commitment to educate employees and the community about the crucial need for organ, eye and tissue donation.

KINGWOOD, WV - Cancer patients in Preston County are catching a much-needed break when it comes to getting treatment as they now have the option to get care just a little bit closer to home.

CHARLESTON, WV - Nearly 30,000 doses of the life-saving medicine naloxone were recently distributed to community organizations and individuals across the state, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.

CHARLESTON, WV - The Bureau for Behavioral Health and the West Virginia Department of Human Resources was awarded federal funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

CLARKSBURG, WV - State lawmakers will head to Charleston this weekend for the start of October’s interim meetings of the Legislature.

HUNTINGTON, WV - Perhaps it was inevitable that Mountain Health Network — the parent organization of St. Mary’s Medical Center and Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington and Rivers Health, formerly Pleasant Valley Hospital, in Point Pleasant, West Virginia — would re-brand itself under the Marshall Health System name.

LOGAN, WV - Marshall University’s School of Medicine coming together with Logan Regional Medical Center to welcome the nation’s first separately-accredited rural surgery residency program.

MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Hospitals welcomed its first cohort of MedEd Program interns to campus on Oct. 2 and 5.

MORGANTOWN, WV - On Monday, October 2, Mon Health Heart and Vascular’s Dr. Matthew Gaskill performed the first cardiac ablation procedure in West Virginia using the POLARx Cryoablation System, a treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF).

WHEELING, WV - An exciting day for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital after being presented with a large check.

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

MARTINSBURG, WV - As part of its commitment to women’s health, WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center is launching a new obstetrics (OB) hospitalist program.

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

CHARLESTON, WV - Listen in as Albert Wright, President and CEO WVU Medicine and Peak Health’s Board Chairman, shares his perspective on Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval.

BECKLEY, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), Bureau for Public Health is hosting eight community listening sessions to gather insight on health issues in specific areas of the state as part of the 2023 State Health Assessment.

VIENNA, WV - The second WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital Mid-Ohio Valley Gala to raise funds benefiting local children and their families returns 6 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Pointe Conference and Reception Center in Vienna.

MORGANTOWN, WV - In the state with the third highest average of people over 65, there is growing concern over the lack of physicians who specialize in providing elder care.

PETERSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Grant Memorial Hospital welcomes Elaine Geroski, AVP Patient Care Services.

MARTINSBURG, WV - Living Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Program is a six-session interactive workshop designed to help individuals coping with one or more chronic diseases learn to take day-to-day responsibility for their care, increase the skills necessary to manage their disease and work effectively with their health care professional.

NEW MARTINSVILLE, WV - WVU Medicine Wetzel County Hospital recently announced the addition of five new state-of-the art comfort chairs that will improve infusion treatments and aid in comfort and healing of patients.

PARKERSBURG, WV - Sport induced sudden cardiac arrest has been a major topic in sports over the last year with athletes such as Damar Hamlin and Bronny James suffering from it.

MORGANTOWN, WV - The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has released its coveted Digital Health Most Wired Survey results for the 2023 data collection period.

MORGANTOWN, WV - After the 2022 surge of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases filled hospitals with sick infants and children, doctors at WVU Medicine Children’s predict that numbers could begin to climb in the next few weeks.

CHARLESTON, WV - The American Heart Association recently announced the initiative to lower blood pressure and improve heart health in the U.S has now helped over 8.6 million people since its inception in 2015.

GLEN DALE, WV - Instead of having to land in a grassy and sometimes muddy field, medical helicopters now have a sturdy and stable concrete pad to use behind WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital.