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Jan 3, 2025

Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025

From stitching up childhood scrapes to guiding us through life’s most challenging diagnoses, doctors are the backbone of our health and well-being. Few decisions carry as much weight as choosing the right physician, whose expertise and compassion can shape the trajectory of our lives. And with four major medical schools statew[...]

Jan 1, 2025

Providers, nonprofits, colleges battle health care labor crisis

Many people may be aware by now that the United States is battling a shortage of nurses and physicians, but what’s received significantly less attention is that numerous other health care occupations — from home health aides to medical laboratory technicians to physical therapists — also are facing a short supply of worker[...]

Dec 31, 2024

This fast-growing medical specialty surged over past decade

A growing number of in-demand physicians are seeing patients without appointments, checking up on them multiple times a day and providing comprehensive care. But there’s a catch: You shouldn’t aspire to see these doctors because they exclusively care for hospitalized patients. Less than 30 years since the designation was coi[...]

Dec 2, 2024

McDermott to depart as Mary Washington Healthcare CEO

Dr. Michael McDermott, president and CEO of Fredericksburg-based Mary Washington Healthcare since 2015, will leave to become head of Montage Health in California, the health system announced Monday. Dr. Christopher Newman, MWHC’s chief operating officer and chief medical officer, will succeed McDermott starting in spring 2[...]

Entrance to Inova Fairfax Medical Center
Nov 18, 2024

Inova pays $2.37M to settle False Claims Act allegations

Three Inova Health entities have agreed to pay more than $2.37 million to settle claims that Inova submitted Medicaid claims containing falsified information. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced on Friday the agreement with Inova Health System Foundation, Inova Health Care Services and Ino[...]

Nov 12, 2024

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 [...]

Dr. Marlon Levy
Nov 11, 2024

After two years, VCU Health makes Levy permanent CEO

Two years after he first became interim CEO, Dr. Marlon F. Levy has been named VCU Health System’s permanent head. Virginia Commonwealth University announced Monday that Levy’s interim roles as the Richmond-based health system’s CEO and senior vice president for VCU Health Sciences were made permanent in appoin[...]

A rendering of a six-story building
Oct 30, 2024

Construction begins on Carilion Taubman Cancer Center

Of the donors, health professionals and area leaders who turned out for Wednesday’s groundbreaking for the Carilion Taubman Cancer Center, Orion Moses, age 9, commanded the most attention.  Doctors diagnosed Moses, who lives in Elliston, with leukemia at age 5. After enduring three and a half years of chemotherapy, he is now [...]

Oct 28, 2024

Pharma company invests $1.5M on Prince William expansion

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Granules Consumer Health, a subsidiary of Granules India, will invest $1.5 million into expanding its operations in Prince William County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday.  The company plans to install new manufacturing lines at its existing Manassas facility, with an aim of creating nearly 100 [...]

Oct 22, 2024

Physical therapists get licenses revoked, suspended over patient sexting

The Virginia Board of Physical Therapy has revoked the license of a Lynchburg physical therapist and suspended the license of a Yorktown physical therapist assistant over unrelated sexting incidents with patients.  The board entered an order to revoke Stephen Maynard Scott’s physical therapy license on Oct. 11 for “cond[...]

Dr. Marlon Levy
Oct 16, 2024

VCU wins approval to start lung transplant surgeries

VCU Health announced Wednesday it has received approval to start lung transplantation surgeries at its Hume-Lee Transplant Center, becoming one of three facilities in the state providing lung transplants. “This will be extremely beneficial for the hundreds of patients living with advanced lung disease in Eastern and Central Vi[...]

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