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Health Care 2025: SMITS, BOUWIEN
Smits joined Civica as head of its sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Petersburg in fall 2023. A group of U.S. hospitals and philanthropic organizations established Civica in 2018 to address chronic generic drug shortages, and the nonprofit is part of Petersburg’s pharmaceutical hub. The Utah drugmaker received the occupancy permit for its $140 million, 140,000-square-foot [&hellip[...]
Health Care 2025: NANTZ, MARK
As the head of Valley Health, Nantz oversees about 6,000 employees and six hospitals, as well as more than 70 medical practices. The not-for-profit health system serves a population of more than 500,000 in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia and Maryland. Before joining Valley Health in 2020, Nantz held executive roles at Bon Secours Mercy […]
Health Care 2025: MANNIX, DR. MARY N.
Following its mission to promote the health of its Shenandoah Valley community, Augusta Health, which Mannix has led since 2008, launched its mobile medical unit to help expand access to primary medical care in April. Mannix oversees roughly 2,400 employees (as of 2023) who work at the community-owned hospital, family practices and other outpatient facilities. […]
Health Care 2025: BLACKLEY, SETH
Blackley founded Evolent Health in 2011 with fellow Harvard Business School alums Frank Williams and Tom Peterson with a goal of providing technology to help health systems shifting to value-based care — where payment is connected to patient outcomes. In 2015, Evolent debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $195 million. Initially serving as […]
Health Care 2025: WHYTE, DR. JOHN
An internist who has served in the federal government and as chief medical officer at WebMD, Whyte assumed leadership July 1 of the 178-year-old AMA, the nation’s major association of physicians. As of 2021, the association that advocates for physicians and works to better public health had 271,660 members. Although Whyte travels to AMA’s Chicago […]
Health Care 2025: DACEY, DR. MICHAEL J.
Dacey became Riverside Health‘s CEO in 2023, in addition to serving as president. Riverside has more than 9,500 employees and operates seven hospitals — including Riverside Mental Health & Recovery Center, Virginia’s first stand-alone psychiatric emergency department — in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, Gloucester and Onancock, as well as over 110 medical offices[...]
Richmond issues boil-water advisory after plant issue
Richmond officials issued a boil-water advisory Tuesday in parts of Virginia’s capital city, leaving many residents without drinkable tap water following an operational issue at the city's water treatment plant for the second time this year.
Roanoke’s Carilion gets state OK for kidney transplants
Carilion Clinic has the state’s blessing to move forward with a kidney transplant program, despite public opposition from competitor UVA Health and a 2024 recommendation from the staff of the Division of Certificate of Public Need (DCOPN) that the Roanoke-based health system’s application be denied. In an email Wednesday, Dr. Karen Shelton, Virginia’s health commissioner,[...]
Medicaid cuts could close Virginia’s rural hospitals, Warner warns
Sen. Mark Warner warns Medicaid cuts may shutter hospitals West of Roanoke. In Virginia. That's because many rural hospitals operate in the red, and depend on Medicaid funding to keep the lights on.
Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centers across the country. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient […]
American Diabetes Assoc. chair tackles disease’s workforce impact
More than 780,000 adults in Virginia have diabetes. The indirect cost from lost productivity due to the disease in 2017 in this state alone was a whopping $2.3 billion, according to the American Diabetes Association. That’s why Rhodes Ritenour, national chairman of the ADA’s board and vice president for external and regulatory affairs with Bon […]
SCHEV approves ODU/NSU Joint School of Public Health
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has approved the Joint School of Public Health (JSPH), offered by Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University, the schools announced on Thursday. Council members approved the school at a Sept. 17 meeting, according to a SHEV spokesperson. “We have a real opportunity to create and […]
