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WASHINGTON, DC - Hospitals are using dramatic language in their effort to convince Congress to allow more time to repay loans meant to sustain them during the pandemic—arguing, for example, that 25% of hospitals' total payments will vanish once repayment starts.

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WASHINGTON, DC - House Democrats unveiled this week that their more than $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal includes $30 billion for hospitals and other healthcare providers.

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CLARKSBURG, WV - The field of public health has three main functions: Protecting the public, preventing disease and promoting healthy behaviors. Local health departments are on the front lines of that work, yet have faced budget cuts that make this work, along with responding to a pandemic, more difficult, according to some department officials in the state.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act provided much-needed funding to hospitals and health-care systems across the country. But, for many safety net hospitals, like those in the WVU Health System, the funding fell short of covering the financial hardship they endured, according to a press release.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine has begun relaxing the visitation restrictions that were put into place at its hospitals and clinics as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a press release.

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BECKLEY, WV - Confirmed cases of Covid-19 continued a recent uptick in West Virginia with the number of cases in Raleigh County also climbing.

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SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - Thomas Health System hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Sept. 1 after coming to an agreement with a new financial partner.

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