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MONICA SCHMUDE
A key performance indicator is a metric used to gauge a company’s performance, and, for Monica Schmude, the KPIs that matter most are the mental and physical well-being of her employees. “A company’s greatest asset is the health of its workforce,” she says, a particularly apt belief for the Virginia head of Anthem Blue Cross […]
DANA WESTON GRAVES
Dana Weston Graves will never forget a meeting she had with a vendor who came in and started shaking hands and speaking to a man in the room whom he assumed was the hospital‘s president. “It never occurred to him that the one woman in the room could be the hospital president,” Graves says. While […]
State delays choosing Shenandoah medical marijuana provider
At its June 26 meeting, the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority was expected to announce which company, among 40 applicants, had been selected from a highly competitive process to become the sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region including the entire Shenandoah Valley, as well as the cities of Charlottesville and Fredericksburg and […]
VCU names new dean of health professions college
Virginia Commonwealth University‘s College of Health Professions will have a new dean effective Aug. 15, the university announced Wednesday. Amy R. Darragh comes from Ohio State University, where she is director and vice dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Services. Darragh succeeds interim dean Paula Song, the college’s Richard M. Bracken Chair and […]
Sentara boosts Halifax hospital investment to $107M
Last year, Sentara Health unveiled plans to invest $70 million to replace the aging Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital in South Boston with a new acute care hospital. On Tuesday, the health care system announced the investment will be closer to $107 million. “It’s just part of the evolution of the process,” Brian Zwoyer, president of […]
Inova raises $83M to match Schars’ $75M gift
Inova Health System has raised $83 million over the past year, surpassing the “Schar Challenge” issued by donors Dwight and Martha Schar when they made a $75 million matching gift to Inova in May 2023. The Schars’ most recent gift to support Inova’s heart and vascular services and the gifts to match it made by […]
New South Boston program trains clinical medical assistants
Pretty much as soon as she heard about it, Ravin Townes enrolled in the new certified clinical medical assistant training program, which launched in March through a collaboration between Danville Community College and South Boston’s Southern Virginia Higher Education Center (SVHEC). Currently employed as a certified nursing assistant, Townes, 30, wants to move into a […]
McLean AI health care startup raises $111 million
A McLean-based health care tech startup wants to provide more targeted medical treatments for people with cancer, heart disease and other common diseases. Zephyr AI, founded in 2020, is a precision medicine company on a mission to democratize personalized medicine and is doing it by developing artificial intelligence-powered algorithms that can glean insights from health […]
StoneSprings Hospital Center hires new CEO
Tammy L. Razmic is the new CEO of StoneSprings Hospital Center in Dulles, the first woman to hold the top title, HCA Virginia announced May 13. Razmic will start her new job at the Loudoun County hospital on May 20. Razmic was most recently chief operating officer at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. […]
Forty applicants vying for Shenandoah medical marijuana license
Forty complete applications were received for conditional permits to operate as the state’s sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region including the Shenandoah Valley, as well as the cities of Charlottesville and Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania and Stafford, according to the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Each company paid an $18,000 [&helli[...]
Inova receives $20M gift from Peterson Cos. family
Inova Health System has received a $20 million gift from the Peterson Family Foundation, the family behind the Peterson Cos. real estate development firm, the Falls Church-based health system announced Tuesday. The gift will be split, with $15 million dedicated to the Inova Life with Cancer program and $5 million to the expansion of Inova […]
Carilion Clinic CEO receives American Hospital Association’s highest honor
At the American Hospital Association‘s annual membership meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Carilion Clinic CEO Nancy Howell Agee received the Distinguished Service Award, the association’s highest honor. The AHA released a video of Agee winning the award, which recognizes “significant lifetime contributions and service to health care.” In the video, AHA President and CEO [&[...]
