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04/15/2020 - MetroNews
CHARLESTON, WV - As working hours have been slashed for over 1,000 employees at the Charleston Area Medical Center in recent weeks, some are turning to the company’s employee emergency fund.
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04/15/2020 - HuffPost by: Mason Adams
WILLIAMSON, WV - As the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout March, two communities in West Virginia — a state whose health outcomes rank among the worst in the nation — grappled with the news that they were about to lose their hospitals.
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04/15/2020 - WVNews
MORGANTOWN, WV - The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute today announced a new study published in partnership with Weill Cornell Medical Center that demonstrates the successful opening of the blood-brain barrier in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex using focused ultrasound to treat six patients with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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04/15/2020 - WOWK
CHARLESTON, WV - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced at least $536,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Healthcare Education Foundation of West Virginia as part of the Hospital Preparedness Program.
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04/14/2020 - Modern Healthcare by: Maria Castellucci
WASHINGTON, DC - Most accountable care organizations taking on downside risk in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are considering dropping out due to concerns they will suffer financial losses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey.
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04/14/2020 - CNN by: Elizabeth Cohen
WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan received an urgent call. A man in his 40s with Covid-19 was in a dire situation, and her colleague wanted her to come the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital to see if he needed to be put on life support.
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04/14/2020 - Modern Healthcare
NEW YORK CITY, NY - The National Institutes of Health have started recruiting for a new study that aims to determine how many adults in the U.S. who have not had a confirmed infection with SARS-CoV-2 carry antibodies to the virus, indicating that they were previously infected.
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