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Mon employees to show off their skills at first Mon Health’s Got Talent

Medical skills are not the only talents Mon Health employees have.  This Saturday, starting at 11 a.m., they will be singing and dancing, telling jokes, playing instruments and more at the first-ever Mon Health’s Got Talent show. Mon Health will host the event at the Ruby Amphitheater ...

Testing, vaccines to move to MCHD

After holding court (literally) at the WVU Rec Center since September 2020, Monongalia County Health Department will move its COVID-19 testing and vaccines to its headquarters at 453 Van Voorhis Road. The new schedule begins Monday, with testing on the lower level of MCHD from 8-10 a.m. Testing will be held again from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday. This Monday and Thursday schedule is set through the end of May, with no testing on May 30 because of Memorial Day. The schedule might fluctuate from month to month based on demand and other factors. COVID vaccines will be given via ...

Friends of WVU Hospitals honors volunteers

MORGANTOWN — Friends of WVU Hospitals honored volunteers on Friday during a luncheon at the Ruby Memorial Hospital in conjunction with National Volunteer Week. It was a special event, said Volunteer Services Director Kimberly Hartsell, because it was their first in three years. COVID ...

Chief says Thomas Health ‘needed a partner’

SOUTH CHARLESTON — Thomas Health System needed a partner. That’s the conclusion of WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright when sizing up the decision by his system and Thomas to join forces first in a clinical and management agreement to be followed by full membership in the WVU Medicine system. The deal was first announced Wednesday. Wright said the South Charleston-based Thomas Health, which includes Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston and St. Francis Hospital in downtown Charleston, would probably be faced with linking up with a for-profit hospital company ...