MORGANTOWN – For years, WVU Hospitals has coveted the county-owned properties sitting in the heart of its Morgantown campus that are home to the Monongalia County Health Department. Now, at long last, it’s going to get the chance to buy them – as will, presumably, anyone else with ...
MORGANTOWN – “This is the journey we’re on,” Monongalia County Health Department Executive Director Anthony DeFelice said of MCHD’s sustained effort to achieve accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board. As the word “journey” would suggest, it’s not a quick ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Department Chief Financial Officer Devan Smith was prepared to come into Thursday morning’s board of health meeting and report MCHD was so-far unscathed by the upheaval in federal funding initiated by the Trump administration. Then, on Tuesday, ...
How are you liking these (mostly) cooler temperatures in the 70s and low 80s that we’ve had for the past week? It’s nice after on-and-off 90-plus-degree temps and stifling humidity for the past two and a half months. Extreme heat is a public health issue. It’s something ...
Dr. Brian H. Huggins hit the ground running when he joined Monongalia County Health Department as the incoming health officer on April 1. The health department has been undergoing a strategic plan process and Huggins stepped up to lead two town halls only six weeks after ...
Five years ago, Monongalia County Health Department hosted a group of wildlife staffers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Elkins to discuss rabies. Cases had been creeping up and, at the same time, the area treated by the USDA’s oral rabies vaccine (ORV) ...