The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute has been identified as a Carotid Care Quality Champion by the Society for Vascular Surgery® Vascular Quality Initiative® (SVS VQI) clinical registry recognition program. The program honors health care organizations across the country dedicated to ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Turnpike plans to begin accepting credit cards from drivers at toll plazas early next year. West Virginia Parkways Authority Executive Director Jeff Miller told a group of state lawmakers Tuesday the credit card option will be implemented after everything else with the ongoing installation of a new tolling system is completed. Lawmakers have long asked turnpike officials to include credit as an option for drivers. Miller said it’s going to happen but testing shows it will slow things down. “We can process a cash transaction in typically six ...
Early this month, lawyers representing federal agencies asked for 23 coal companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family to be held in contempt because over the past year they have made late payments or no payments at all on a settlement agreement over mine safety fines. Now, a lawyer for the Justice coal companies is responding in court that there’s a good reason: The companies have empty pockets. A filing this week on behalf of the Justices has a subsection in all capital letters titled, “DEFENDANTS HAVE NO ABILITY TO PAY.” “While the Defendants have not entirely ...
Gov. Jim Justice, whose family owns The Greenbrier Hotel Corp., promised employees at the resort won’t go without health insurance. “There is no way that the great union employees at The Greenbrier are going to go without insurance. There is no possible way,” Justice said in a statewide administration briefing in response to a question by WCHS television reporter Bob Aaron. “And I’ll promise you to the good lord above that insurance payments have been made and were being made on a regular basis just like we’ve done in the past in many ways.” However, in response to a ...
The first group of teens enrolled in Fairmont State’s Middle College program have moved onto campus. And like any student heading off to pursue their education, they are need of all types of items to ease the transition. The new program provides youth in foster care with safety, ...
The Dominion Post Advertising Department took home Best Advertisement of the Year honors at the recent West Virginia Press Association Conference, where awards were announced for the Advertising and Editorial Contest. The Advertising staff won seven awards, including four first-place honors. One of those was for Best Theme Pages for the WVU Football Rally Posters that are inserted into The Dominion Post each week of the West Virginia University football season. Those posters also won Best Advertisement of the Year for the newspaper. “I’m very proud of our ...
