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CHARLESTON, WV - State officials acknowledged this week that in recent years West Virginia spent millions of dollars less than was allocated for waiver programs meant to support people with disabilities, instead shifting dollars to expenses like covid-19 testing or contract nursing.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Over the past year, as the programs returned to pre-pandemic eligibility rules, more than 200,000 West Virginians were removed from the Medicaid or the Child Health Insurance Program, state data shows.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Just three years ago, EMS provider numbers across the state were down a third.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Tom Takubo, DO, an osteopathic physician and pulmonary critical care specialist, is exasperated and crestfallen.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is set to get $1 billion from lawsuits related to opioids.

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WASHINGTON D.C. - It has been over a year since the FBI and Justice Department disclosed "Operation Nightingale," which cracked open a fake nursing degree scheme at three now-shuttered schools.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia’s Department of Health says the state’s initial implementation for the administration of whole blood on ambulances has so far been successful for two counties who have been utilizing the service after West Virginia became the first to roll out statewide protocols for it.

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