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COVID-19 booster shot available for high-risk, elderly individuals

MORGANTOWN — COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are available to select populations across the United States, and several locations in the Morgantown and surrounding area are available to distribute it to those eligible. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

Hospitals are in crisis

It was hard to watch our last home football game. Not just because the Mountaineers almost gave the game away (thank goodness for the defense), but because we watched fans packed shoulder-to-shoulder in Milan Puskar Stadium and filling Ruby Memorial’s parking lot with unmasked (and too many ...

WVU Medicine program designed to reduce barriers to care

MORGANTOWN -- WVU Medicine is implementing a new program through its electronic medical record system, EPIC, to help address social determinants of health, or barriers, that affect patient health, such as transportation, food and shelter. This program is supported in part by a $50,000 ...

WVU Medicine announces crisis-level standard of care

MORGANTOWN — WVU Medicine is now operating at a crisis-level standard of care, according to a social media announcement from the hospital. This standard of care is a reduction in the services available at the hospital in an effort to keep up with the influx of patients. Ron Pellegrino, ...