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Mon Health System and Intermed Labs awarded grant

Mon Health System and Intermed Labs at Mon Health have been awarded a grant of $100,000 from the Benedum Foundation to provide cutting-edge, AI-based finger prosthetics from Fingy3D to the people of West Virginia. The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation serves West Virginia and ...

Mon Health’s David Goldberg receives inaugural honor

PACE Enterprises honored Mon Health CEO David Goldberg as its inaugural recipient of the “Laurel Leadership Award” Saturday during the Laurel Leadership Gala at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place. The event helped kick off the organization’s Vision 2025 campaign. PACE plans to add workspace to provide more jobs for those with disabilities and independent housing. PACE recently established the first Special Needs Pooled Trust in West Virginia as part of the vision plan. PACE Board of Directors created this prestigious annual award to recognize one individual who ...

Mon EMS announces Johnson as new captain

Mon EMS announces Johnson as new captain Monongalia Emergency Medical Services (Mon EMS) announced that paramedic Brandon Johnson was promoted to captain. Johnson fills the fourth and final vacancy of the team of four captains at Mon EMS. “I am honored to assume the role of captain at ...

Wheeling Hospital to continue taking PEIA

CHARLESTON — Wheeling Hospital, which indicated months ago that it would stop taking patients with state-provided insurance plans, now intends to accept those patients because of recent changes in the reimbursement rate. “They will be fully participating in PEIA,” said Jim Kaufman, president and chief executive of the West Virginia Hospital Association. On Friday, Gov. Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 268, which makes a range of changes to the Public Employees Insurance Agency, out of concern that the agency faces growing financial stress. Before the most recent legislative ...

Medical students learn residency matches during national celebration

West Virginia University School of Medicine graduating medical students learned Friday where they will spend the next several years training as resident physicians. Match Day, the national day when medical students find out if they matched with their first-choice hospital, took place ...