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VCU Health opens cardiopulmonary rehab clinic in Virginia
Becker's ASC Review
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August 29, 2025
Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health has opened a new clinic to expand cardiology and pulmonology services in the city’s West End, according to an Aug. 28 system news release. The facility houses specialists from VCU Health Pauley Heart Center and...
Virginia State Police welcome a four-legged partner dedicated to supporting the wellness of Virginia’s finest
Lake Gaston Gazette-Observer - North Carolina
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RICHMOND, VA — Vader, a specially trained Labrador retriever, has officially joined the Virginia State Police and will support the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team within the Department’s Wellness Program. Vader’s role is to help...
Virginia Berry-Trenton, SC
Edgefield Advertiser - South Carolina
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August 29, 2025
Mrs. Virginia Berry, age 81, of Trenton, SC completed her journey on this earth Tuesday, July 22, 2025, and is now living in her eternal home in Heaven. Mrs. Berry was born October 28, 1943, in Edgefield County. She was preceded in death by her...
Virginia GOP’s gubernatorial ticket pairs anti-LGBTQ+ candidate with gay man whose rights she opposes
The Advocate
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August 29, 2025
Virginia Republicans are offering voters one of the most paradoxical statewide tickets in recent memory. Winsome Earle-Sears, the state’s Black lieutenant governor and now the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee, is running alongside John Reid, a white,...
Medical Service Corps Reservists reach new milestone with Navy-Marine Corps Large Scale Exercise
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 29, 2025
FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES 08.08.2025 Courtesy Story By Lt. Katie Parizek, Medical Service Corps For the first time, Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps (MSC) officers assigned to the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)...
Hospital receives 300 backpacks designed to help kids get leukemia treatment on the go
The Union Democrat - California
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With colorful heart, bow, and flower patterns, the backpacks designed by a Philadelphia cancer philanthropy look from the outside just like the dozens of others filling store shelves as a new school year approaches. But these backpacks have a...
UVa hospital CEO Wendy Horton to resign
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Wendy Horton, CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center, is leaving the flagship hospital of the UVa Health System. Her exit means that in less than five months all three of UVa Health’s top executives have announced their departures,...
Prosser Memorial Health earns top CMS hospital quality rating
The Sunnyside Sun - Washington State
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Prosser Memorial Health has received a five-star rating in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ 2025 Overall Hospital Quality Ratings, the highest rating issued by the federal agency. The hospital is one of 290 in the nation to achieve...
Michigan selected for competitive oral health learning series
Alpena News Online - Michigan
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According to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) press release, Michigan is one of 11 states competitively selected for the Medicaid Oral Health Workforce Implementation Learning Series. This series is a national initiative...
UVa names interim dean of medical school
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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The University of Virginia has appointed an interim dean to head its school of medicine in the wake of Dr. Melina Kibbe's resignation after she faced accusations of criminal and unethical wrongdoing. Dr. Colin Derdeyn, chair of the UVa Health...
August is Civic Health Month: Let’s check our voter registration and register to vote
Healio News
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August 29, 2025
August 29, 2025 3 min read Our vote is our voice and, as busy physicians, Civic Health Month is the perfect time to ensure we are registered to vote and have all the resources we need to cast our ballot. July and August represent months of...
'Nightmare for parents': Virginia school board accused of evading abortion trafficking allegations
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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August 29, 2025
By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Friday, August 29, 2025 iStock/diane39A Virginia school board meeting this week reportedly devoted little time to addressing the allegations that school officials arranged and paid for pregnant students'...
Horners saw ‘immediate potential’ in southwest Virginia
Delmarva Farmer - Maryland
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August 29, 2025
Rebekah and Grant Horner, with son Roane, moved to a 50-acre farm in Southwest Virginia in 2024, a second expansion of their operation. (Photo courtesy Rebekah Horner) PULASKI, Va. — Rebekah Horner said she always knew she wanted a career working...
MT recovery program hurt participants' 'morale, self-esteem and mental health,' audit says
The Montana Standard
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It’s been more than a decade since Krissy was first diagnosed with a chronic pain condition so severe that, at its worst, made it nearly impossible for her to work a job. As she’s slowly figured out a regimen to manage her pain, Krissy, whose name...
Now ‘fixed,’ Jonny Farmelo hopes for healthy future
Herald - Washington State
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August 29, 2025
EVERETT — Jonny Farmelo felt the stabbing pain as soon as he swung the bat. The 20-year-old Everett AquaSox outfielder thought he did something to his oblique, as he struggled to breathe. Playing as the designated hitter for Everett against the...
High School Abortion Scandal Sends Tremors Through Virginia Governor’s Race
WMAL - Washington D.C.
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August 29, 2025
Seth McLaughlin | August 29, 2025 (The Washington Times) — Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is borrowing a page from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign playbook by leaning into parental rights to take some of the wind out of Democrat Rep....
LOOKING BACK: Raiford Hospital expands
The Tidewater News - Virginia
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August 29, 2025
Published 9:00 am Friday, August 29, 2025 Eighty years ago, the Aug. 24, 1945, edition of The Tidewater News reported on the opening of the expanded Raiford Hospital. A thirty-four-bed annex to the existing hospital was nearing completion and was...
Democracy Circle RVA to host healthcare town hall Sept. 6 in Henrico
Henrico Citizen - Virginia
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Democracy Circle RVA, a community organization, will host a healthcare town hall meeting at Twin Hickory Library Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m. The organization aims to raise awareness about the effects it believes some Virginia families and communities...
Highly Profitable Outpatient Pediatric Speech Therapy Practice Based Virginia
DOTmed
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State: Virginia Asking Price: $750,000 Category: Speech Therapy Clinic Listing ID: VAPT1G Company Overview PRIME exits and American HealthCare Capital are pleased to exclusively introduce a highly profitable outpatient pediatric speech therapy...
Embattled UVa Medical School dean stepping down
The Daily Progress - Virginia
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Four months after a resignation letter in her name was deemed a hoax and nine months after 128 health care professionals at the University of Virginia penned a letter of no confidence in her leadership, UVa School of Medicine Dean Dr. Melina Kibbe...