MORGANTOWN — After WVU Medicine Children's opened in September, Dr. Autumn Kiefer recalls seeing a dad sitting in a comfy chair in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, holding his son and watching a Mountaineer football game. “That was really just a normal thing that we never had ...
According to the latest annual report from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, Monongalia County is the healthiest in West Virginia. Monongalia County outperforms the state average for nearly every health category and even surpasses the national average in several categories. One of the standout areas for Monongalia County is its premature death rate, which is lower than the state and national averages. Monongalia County has a premature death rate of 6,400 years of potential life lost per 100,000 population, significantly better than the state and national averages of ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), Bureau for Family Assistance today announced additional funding to allow child care providers to be reimbursed based on enrollment through August 2024. The pay-by-enrollment methodology was instituted during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency using federally allocated funds to provide financial stability and continued assurance of available child care, and was projected to be exhausted by September 2023. “By reprioritizing use of available funds, DHHR can help child care providers continue to ...
MORGANTOWN – Back on March 20, state Senate Finance chair Eric Tarr asked the U.S. Treasury Office of Inspector General to investigate whether the transfer of $28.375 million in unappropriated CARES Act funds to a discretionary account of Gov. Jim Justice violated any federal law, ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia health and human resources officials have been talking with employees about splitting the agency into three, and more talks are ahead with the governor and his top advisers. Dr. Jeffrey Coben, acting director of the Department of Health and Human Resources, said he could not yet go into detail with lawmakers about initial plans to divide the agency because that meeting with the governor is next week. “I have not yet had the requisite meetings with the Governor’s Office to discuss that plan in depth and to really provide their input to help craft ...
MORGANTOWN – State legislators heard a plug for a new Morgantown-based addiction recovery program, and a suggestion that similar programs be started across the state -- maybe using some funds from opioid lawsuit settlements. They also got an update on the explosive growth of the medical ...
