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Hospital seeking expansion
Thursday, July 02, 2009
MARTINSBURG - By the end of today, officials with West Virginia University Hospitals-East hope to be one step closer to completing a $28 million expansion project at City Hospital in Martinsburg.
The site plan for three projects at the hospital, located at 2500 Hospital Drive, is up for review at this evening’s meeting of the Martinsburg Planning Commission.
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State nurses to take part in Washington health rally
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—About 300 nurses, nurse practitioners, labor leaders and activists are going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the national Health Care Reform Rally on June 25.
Steve McElroy, executive director of the West Virginia Nurses Association, said five busloads of people from West Virginia will take part in the rally, which begins at 11:30 a.m. at Upper Senate Park in Washington.
“The purpose is to support President Obama’s health-care reform and make sure everyone in the country has universal health care,” McElroy said. “Health care should be for all Americans. We’re the only country in the civilized world that doesn’t have health care for its citizens.”
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UniCare to Hold Three Summer Expos Aimed at Helping Families Make Good Health Care Decisions
Friday, June 05, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va., June 4 /PRNewswire/—UniCare Health Plan of West Virginia, Inc. announced today that it will hold three family health expos this summer to provide families with the tools they need to manage their health.
The first of UniCare’s Your Family’s Health Expo will be held Saturday, June 6 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley and will feature more than 20 health-related exhibitors and 2006 World’s Strongest Man Phil Pfister.
“West Virginia ranks high in obesity, smoking and cancer rates,” said Mitch Collins, regional director for UniCare. “Through fun and entertaining events like these expos, we hope to educate families, and mothers, in particular, about the important choices they make on a daily basis and how they impact the health of their family.”
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The Institute For Transfusion Medicine is Hiring!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Institute For Transfusion Medicine is looking to fill the following 2 positions:
RN III
Full Time - Multiple openings on various shifts
* Responsible for managing and ensuring technical excellence at an assigned Apheresis Donor Center.
* Accountable for maintaining a high standard of quality for both product and donor care.
* Supervises the Donor Specialist II staff during collection, sampling, labeling, and apheresis product handling and shipping.
* Monitors product yields, donor counts and site quality control.
* Acts as the technical expert in the area of apheresis product collection and troubleshooting.
* Precepts new Donor Specialist II staff in Apheresis collections and responsible for ongoing training, competency and evaluation of existing staff.
* Registered Nurse required.
* Valid PA Driver’s License required.
* Blood Banking/Apheresis experience preferred, along with 1 year of Management/Supervisory experience.
Specialist RN
Full Time 7:30a-4p - On Call responsibilities included
* License 1 year of critcal care or apheresis experience preferred.
* Expertise in venipuncture.
* Mechanical inclination skills.
* Performs therapeutic hemapheresis procedures, peripheral blood stem cell collections and transfusion therapy to meet the daily hematological and immunological needs of outpatients and hospital inpatients.
* Guides and directs hemapheresis technicians during therapeutic hemapheresis procedures.
* Current PA nursing license, current PA driver’s license.
* At least 1 yr of critical care background, or apheresis experience.
* Valid Basic Cardiopulmonary Life Support Certification.
* Good oral and written communication skills, mechanical inclination.
* Educational methods and leadership skills. Expertise in venipuncture.
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West Virginia Takes First Steps Forward
Monday, April 13, 2009
West Virginia has long been known as a state that has an inadequate and failing mental health system that too often locks people with mental illness away in prisons rather than provide treatment for them. The West Virginia Legislature seeks to change that with its recent passage of the Mental Health Stabilization Act of 2009.
The bill, Senate Bill 672, is intended to rebuild West Virginia’s community-based mental health system.
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West Virginia To Move Forward With Medicaid Expansion
Monday, March 02, 2009
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Martha Walker on Monday said the agency will move forward with Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D) plans to extend Medicaid to working adults with incomes up to 50% of the federal poverty level, the AP/Charleston Daily Mail reports. The current eligibility threshold is 35% of the poverty level for adults with children. The proposal would extend benefits to childless adults and could allow the state to eventually increase the income limit to 100% of the poverty level.
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First Flu Study of Its Kind in Morgantown
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The WVU Department of Emergency Medicine is partnering with NIOSH. According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year about 36,000 people die from influenza.
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Health expert offers guide for West Virginia
Thursday, February 05, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—A nationally respected health expert says West Virginia could become one of the first states in the country to pass comprehensive health care reform.
Dr. Ken Thorpe, an Emory University health policy professor, has presented to West Virginia lawmakers recommendations on slashing health care costs in the public and private sectors. Thorpe has been working with state officials on a health care reform bill for the upcoming legislative session.
One of Thorpe’s suggestions urges West Virginia to adopt a “patient-centered medical home” model in which a team of physicians coordinates personal care. This concept presumably strengthens the physician-patient relationship, as doctors get paid for spending more time with their clients.
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Job cuts at W.Va. hospitals reflect market ills
Friday, January 30, 2009
Three West Virginia hospitals that announced layoffs in the past two weeks are in the clasp of the same economic squeeze gripping hospitals nationwide - and some officials warn that more job cuts could be on the way.
Hospitals from California to Maine find themselves forced to cut costs as they confront tight credit, investment losses and higher costs coupled with more charity care, more unpaid hospital bills and more people deferring all but the most essential treatments.
And they’re doubly challenged to make the cuts without jeopardizing patient care.
West Virginia’s job losses began after the new year. Within a week of each other, Weirton Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Parkersburg and Cabell Huntington Hospital announced layoffs totaling nearly 100.
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Group focuses on improving state’s rural health care infrastructure
Thursday, January 29, 2009
URRICANE - The Center for Rural Health Development, Inc., in Hurricane, is a private not-for-profit organization focusing on improving and strengthening West Virginia’s health care infrastructure, especially in rural communities, and improving the health of its citizens.
According to President, Director, and Chief Executive Office Sharon L. Lansdale the center is a neutral health care entity without members. It does not represent any one health care sector but rather works with all of them, such as dental, behavioral health, hospitals, clinics, and private physicians. It represents all 55 counties.
“We feel that appropriate access to health care is an integral part of the economic infrastructure needed in communities for them to grow business and attract business,” Lansdale said. “It doesn’t really matter how healthcare is delivered in that community, to us, just that it is a viable health care delivery system and financially viable.”
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