… grades based on a series of indicators for each report. “As federal and state lawmakers reevaluate the current health policy environment, they cannot ignore telemedicine’s potential as a valuable and cost saving tool”, said Gary Capistrant Chief …
Category: West Virginia
Clarksburg-Harrison Health Official: Other states should take note of WV’s opioid struggles
The Executive Director of the Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department said there’s mostly bad news – although some good news-regarding the opioid epidemic in West Virginia and how it relates to the rest of the country. “Unfortunately in Harrison County, we have higher data showing us in the southern coal belt,” Joseph C. Bundy, formerly the President of the West Virginia Association of Local Health Departments, said Thursday.
Despite West Virginia economic woes, WVU Medicine is booming
… tower housing its Heart & Vascular Institute. As the West Virginia economy slumped, this corner of the state’s health care industry has been thriving, thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act. The law, which Republicans in Washington have said they …
Cut Dependence On Government
West Virginia’s U.S. senators, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, share one concern about proposals to repeal and replace the Obamacare program. It is that those who have become dependent on it not be cut off from health insurance.