MORGANTOWN – A divided Senate Health Committee on Tuesday approved SB 468, the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act. Also on Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee approved a bill to create a Charter School Stimulus Fund. Senate Health approved a committee ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
