MORGANTOWN – After more than 40 years in downtown Morgantown – first on Pleasant Street, followed by 23 years at its current Spruce Street location – Milan Puskar Health Right is ready to begin its next chapter in its new Scott Avenue home. “The dates are official,” ...
The beginning of December marked the 35th World AIDS Day, providing an opportunity for medical professionals and community members alike to reflect on advances since the AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s and to look ahead at the progress to come. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an ...
MORGANTOWN — Two things become apparent listening to Milan Puskar Health Right Executive Director Laura Jones discuss the agency’s needle exchange program. One, she believes wholeheartedly in the concept of harm reduction as a proven strategy to lessen the impacts of injection ...
While we applaud Bartlett House for adding beds to its shelter for the winter, we are disappointed that no one has stepped up to provide a warming shelter for the cold months. We understand that Hazel’s House of Hope may not have been the best fit for the warming shelter, though it did ...
MORGANTOWN — Milan Puskar Health Right Executive Director Laura Jones said the Health Right Board of Directors has not lost hope that Health Right’s Spruce Street clinic will eventually relocate to Scott Avenue. The questions are when, how much is it going to cost and how will it ...
In collaboration with the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, Health Right will coordinate a street count of individuals experiencing homelessness beginning at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 until 3:59 p.m. Jan. 26. During this 24-hour period, volunteers and local service agency staff will ...