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Marion County Rescue Squad makes donation to Mon Health foundation

The Marion County Rescue Squad made a donation Friday to the Mon Health Medical Center Foundation to support breast cancer awareness. Each October, the Marion County Rescue Squad hosts a Flamingo Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Donations can be made to “flamingo” from any individual or business in Marion County, resulting in the rescue squad leaving plastic flamingos all over the county. “This fundraiser is very significant to the rescue squad,” said Donna Wade, administrative assistant chief of the Marion County Rescue Squad. “The fundraiser not only ...

Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary hosts annual fundraiser

Love a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, but too busy to do it yourself? Or perhaps your embellishment skills aren’t quite up to snuff, and you crave a prettier model than your own efforts allow. Either way, The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary’s annual fundraiser could solve ...

Mon Health scores a B, Ruby a C in latest Leapfrog hospital safety grades

MORGANTOWN – After taking a dip last spring, Mon Health Medical Center's Leapfrog Hosptial Safety Grade returned to a B this fall. WVU Medicine's J.W. Ruby Memorial Hosptial held steady at a C. The Leapfrog Group is a safety-based nonprofit formed by major employers and health care ...

PEIA talks begin around state

CHARLESTON — PEIA’s Finance Board is going around the state for conversations about what many public employees will likely consider bad news, a 10% premium increase for the coming year. That’s on top of a 24% increase for state employees and educators instituted for the current year — changes that have gone hand-in-hand following legislation mandating that the insurance plans snap back to an 80-20 cost split between the government employer and insured employees. The finance board for the Public Employee Insurance Agency will hear from the public in Morgantown ...

USDA head tours new WIC office in Fairmont

Funding, transportation issues for clients and ways Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC program staff members have conducted outreach in order to connect with eligible participants were some of the topics discussed on Thursday morning when an administrator from the United States ...

Mon Health Ball of the Year raises $500K for the Caring Cottages

Submitted to The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN – The Mon Health Medical Center Auxiliary raised more than $500,000 at its 59th Annual Ball of the Year on Saturday. The money will support the development of the Caring Cottages, a new patient family stay house on the Mon Health Medical Center ...