Cline Family Foundation gifts WVU Medicine Children’s

February 22, 2022

BY WVU MEDICINE A gift from the Cline Family Foundation will provide highly specialized care and vital support for children facing serious health challenges at the new WVU Medicine Children’s hospital. The Cline Family Foundation contribution supports the Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units (ICU), the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and the Child Life Program at the new hospital, which is slated for completion in early 2022. The nine-story, 150-bed facility is under construction next to WVU Medicine’s J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. “We are incredibly grateful ...

Some legislative priority bills are working their way to completion, others are stalled

February 19, 2022

MORGANTOWN – Friday was the 38th day of the 60-day legislative session – just past halfway, and heading toward Day 50, Crossover Day, the last day for bills to pass out of their house of origin in order to have a chance to survive. It's typical that much of the most serious action ...

AG Morrisey announces MOU on statewide allocation of future opioid suit settlement funds

February 16, 2022

MORGANTOWN – State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday that his office has reached an agreement with 54 counties and dozens of municipalities on the allocation of expected settlement and judgment funds – in the millions of dollars – from several opioid-related suits in ...

House committee finds flaws in absentee ballot voter fraud bill, sends it to subcommitee to retool

February 15, 2022

MORGANTOWN – Members of the House Judiciary Committee found a voter fraud bill riddled with holes. After extensive questioning on Tuesday, committee chair Moore Capito, R-Kanawha, decided to send it to subcommittee for repairs. After that, members resurrected a medical cannabis bill that ...

State passes 6,000 deaths

February 15, 2022

West Virginia passed another bleak milestone Monday, surpassing 6,000 COVID-19 deaths in the state. Justice read an additional 31 victims at the start of Monday’s briefing, bringing the toll to date to 6,023. “It rips my heart out in so many ways and I just hate it,” Justice said. “It is an absolutely horrible choice to not get your booster shot.” In some positive news, however, new cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, signaling an end to the recent omicron surge that took West Virginia to record highs for patients hospitalized, in ICUs and on ...

Rockefeller Institute first in the U.S. to enroll patient in stroke trial

February 11, 2022

BY WVU MEDICINE The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute was the first institution in the United States to enroll a patient in the Route92 Medical Inc. SUMMIT MAX clinical trial. SUMMIT MAX is a randomized, controlled, multicenter trial to evaluate the performance of its next generation Monopoint™ Reperfusion System versus currently available aspiration catheter technology. The trial’s first patient was enrolled at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand, followed shortly by a patient at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. “We are happy to become the first U.S. ...