WVU Medicine Children’s has partnered with the West Virginia Tourism Office to seek out artwork from West Virginia children to include in the new Children’s Hospital. The artwork will be […]
Health and Sciences
Local man gets dental work through Jobs & Hope program
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Heroin and other substance misuse made Brandon miserable to the point he knew he had to get help. “It made my life unmanageable,” said the Morgantown man, whose name […]
Human trafficking hits close to home
West Virginians who hear about the practice of human trafficking might think of it as something that only occurs in foreign countries. Or maybe larger states, such as California or […]
House passes health board, teacher certification bills along party line
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates approved Friday the Senate bills dealing with local health department oversight and alternative teacher certification – both along mostly party lines. SB 12, the […]
Postcast 60 – February 26, 2021
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Senate bill to license needle-exchange programs draws long line of physician opponents to testify against it
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Health Committee spent more than three hours Thursday hashing over a bill to license and regulate needle-exchange programs across the state. Bill lead sponsor Eric Tarr, […]
Monongalia County’s COVID-19 vaccine doses to be temporarily halved
MORGANTOWN — Fundamentally unfair, counterintuitive and counterproductive. That is how the Monongalia County Commission described a state decision to temporarily reduce by half the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses coming […]
Hopemont Hospital among those to close, if bill passes
KINGWOOD – House Bill 2626 was introduced last week by the House of Delegates Health and Human Resources Committee in an effort to close four state-owned hospitals, one of which […]
House amends Senate teacher strike, health board bills; both up for House passage on Friday
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates made substantive changes to the Senate teacher strike and county health board bills Thursday, in preparation for passing both bills Friday and returning them […]
W.Va. hospital to pay more than $300K for Medicare fraud
Newsroom@DominionPost.com CLARKSBURG — U.S. Attorney Bill Powell has announced that Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg has agreed to pay $320,175.71 for false medical claims. According the settlement, Grant Memorial Hospital […]
