Now, more than ever, you don’t want to have a heart attack. Or get into a car accident. Or break your leg. None of those incidents are […]
Tag: hospitals
WVU Medicine, Mon Health optimistic about staff complying with vaccine mandates
MORGANTOWN — President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates have garnered some negative response among health care workers across the country, so The Dominion Post contacted WVU Medicine and […]
Justice: COVID surge may be peaking; new Saving Our Care program will help hospitals stay afloat
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice and his team believe the Delta-charged COVID surge may have peaked, or nearly so. Following a Monday morning “breakfast summit,” they announced […]
Justice illustrates his case: It’s the unvaccinated filling hospital beds and ICUs
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice told the story on Wednesday with two color-coded charts. The charts showed the the shape of West Virginia filled with little people […]
WVU Medicine encourages patient use of local urgent care centers
WVU Medicine As COVID-19 cases across the state and country continue to rise, WVU Medicine Emergency Medicine encourages those seeking treatment to use local urgent care centers […]
Delta surge is hitting NC hospitals hard. I saw it as an ER heart patient
by Dan Kane RALEIGH, N.C. — The latest COVID-19 surge is hitting hospitals hard, with filled ICUs and emergency rooms. I saw some of it up close […]
Gen. Hoyer: ICU bed occupancy approaching January peak; number on ventilators already above January’s high
MORGANTOWN — It’s Day 537 of the pandemic, Joint Interagency Task Force Director Gen. James Hoyer said Wednesday. There are 670 West Virginians hospitalized with COVID, he […]
State sees more than 1,000 new COVID cases over the weekend
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s active COVID cases soared over the weekend, climbing from 3,372 Friday to 4,010 Monday morning. That figure doesn’t tell the whole story because […]
WVU Hospitals receives CON approval
WVU Medicine WVU Hospitals has become the first hospital in West Virginia to receive Certificate of Need approval to move its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at […]
Mon Health hospitals to raise flags in recognition of National Donate Life Month
MORGANTOWN — April is National Donate Life Month, a time to applaud the generosity of those who have saved lives by becoming organ, eye, tissue, marrow and […]
