MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced on Monday morning that Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Crouch will retire effective Dec. 31. Justice made the virtual announcement from his Capitol office, flanked by COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh, Joint Interagency Task Force ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK A new outreach campaign in West Virginia aims to help low-income families obtain and maintain health insurance coverage for their children. The campaign, Connecting Kids to Coverage West Virginia, launched this week at CAMC’s Women and Children’s Hospital in Charleston. It’s a $1.48 million three-year campaign funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services campaign and led by Think Kids Inc. to encourage eligible kids to enroll in Medicaid and CHIP. “Most families were used to enrolling every year in the program. Now they haven’t had ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice issued a proclamation to end the pandemic state of emergency back on Nov. 12, but never announced it, so the public didn't know until a former reporter tweeted about it Tuesday night and the word spread. The reasoning for the proclamation and its remaining ...
MORGANTOWN — Attorney General Patrick Morrisey offered a first look at the work of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that was transferred to his office in 2019. During a virtual press conference staged from the Eastern Panhandle, he reviewed how the numbers for investigations, case ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice briefly addressed his thoughts on running for U.S. Senate during Tuesday's COVID briefing. But it was a COVID briefing and before the press dove into politics, Justice and his team talked numbers and vaccines. Tuesday's pandemic death toll was 7,590, and ...
The WVU Cancer Institute marked World Pancreatic Cancer Day with a special awareness event Thursday at WVU’s Health Sciences Center. According to pancreatic.org, estimated 62,210 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the U.S., and more than 49,830 will die from the ...
