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Aug 29, 2024

Health Wagon CEO’s pay gains attention

Once best known outside the region for its role in an annual Remote Area Medical pop-up clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds, Southwest Virginia‘s Health Wagon has gained new notoriety — and lost state funding — over executive pay. After Cardinal News reported in May that Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Gardner Tyson makes […]

Nov 29, 2023

‘A world of opportunities’

From its founding as a two-year junior college designed to expand higher education opportunities in the Appalachian coal-mining country of Southwest Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise has expanded into a four-year liberal arts college with an influential impact on regional economic and workforce development. Many of the programs of study at the […]

Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson says Starlink internet service will improve the nonprofit’s patient outcomes. Photo by Tim Cox
Aug 30, 2023

Satellite internet improves mobile health care

The Health Wagon got its start in 1980 when Sister Bernadette Kenny, a nurse practitioner, began dispensing free, much-needed health care to people in rural Appalachia from her Volkswagen Beetle.   “She was thinking outside the box,” says Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson. Kenny served as inspiration, Tyson says, when the health care […]

A master’s degree in education made the most sense for U.Va. Wise’s first graduate-level degree program, says college Chancellor Donna Price Henry. Photo by Mark Robertson-Baker II
Jun 29, 2023

U.Va. Wise launches master’s degree in education

Like the rest of the country, Virginia’s public schools are suffering from a teacher shortage. In the 2022-23 academic year, there were 3,573 vacancies statewide, and more teachers are working with only provisional licenses, which don’t require teacher preparation courses. In Southwest Virginia, though, educators are signing up for a master’s degree in education that […]

An economic development authority could help the town of Wise develop property and receive grants, says Reagan Walsh, the town’s planning and zoning administrator. Photo by Earl Neikirk
Mar 30, 2023

Planned Wise EDA will spur downtown growth

Establishing an economic development authority might pave the way for new businesses in the town of Wise, local officials believe. EDAs can provide educational programs and mentoring to entrepreneurs, as well as buy, lease and sell property and administer grants, points out Reagan Walsh, the town’s planner and zoning administrator. “I’ve run into a lot […]

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