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Bon Secours, Sentara join 12 health care organizations forming data company
Bon Secours and Sentara Healthcare announced Thursday they have joined a group of 12 additional health care providers to form a new company, Truveta, which will offer data insights for patient care. Spurred by the rapid research needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Truveta will create a new data platform using artificial intelligence and machine […]
12 Va. hospitals rank among top in the nation
Healthgrades released its 2021 list recognizing the top 250 hospitals in the United States, and 12 Virginia hospitals made the cut — with two breaking the top 100. The 12 Virginia hospitals are among the top 5% of the nation’s hospitals in terms of rankings. The only Virginia hospitals to earn a spot in the top [&hellip[...]
Northam requests federal support to vaccinate federal employees
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser jointly issued a request Wednesday for federal support with vaccinating essential federal employees against COVID-19, many of whom live in the greater D.C. area. Northam, Hogan and Bowser sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. Department of Health and […]
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital names new president
Norfolk-based Sentara Healthcare announced Wednesday it has hired Liisa Ortegon as the new president of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, one of the state’s largest hospitals. She replaces Carolyn Carpenter, who left to join Johns Hopkins Health System as its capital region president. Ortegon most recently served as senior[...]
CVS vaccine rollout starts in Virginia
Updated 3:40 p.m., Feb. 9 Virginia residents 65 and older are now able to register for vaccinations that will be given starting Friday at CVS locations across Virginia as part of an expansion of the federal COVID-19 vaccination program. CVS will supplement existing vaccination programs by providing 26,000 more shots a week to Vi[...]
Carilion Clinic to form diversity, equity, inclusion office
Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic announced Monday it will establish an Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and has named Nathaniel L. Bishop, the former Jefferson College of Health Sciences president, to lead it. The office will work with community leaders to address equity and social justice as it relates to health care in t[...]
Richmond City Council to consider $325M VCU Health tower
Richmond City Council will consider the $325 million sale and redevelopment of the city’s Public Safety Building into a VCU Health medical office tower. The project is proposed by Capital City Partners LLC, a joint venture from two developers who were involved in the failed Navy Hill project. Mayor Levar Stoney announced M[...]
COVID roundup: Cases lower, vaccinations rate improves in Va.
A year after the United States declared a public health emergency in response to the coronavirus, the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpassed 27 million as of Monday, Feb. 8. Here in Virginia, the number of new cases and deaths declined over the past week, although two highly contagious variant strains of the […]
South African COVID-19 variant case reported in Va., governor says
UPDATED 4 P.M. FEB. 5 Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday the highly contagious South African variant of COVID-19 has shown up in a case in Virginia, identified by private laboratory Labcorp on Thursday. The sample came from an adult in Eastern Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Health, which said it was “investi[...]
Health Wagon says it hasn’t received COVID-19 vaccine doses
The head of The Health Wagon, the Wise County-based free clinic system that serves more than 5,600 patients in Southwest Virginia, many with medical vulnerabilities, said in a Thursday interview on “CBS This Morning” that the clinic has not received any COVID-19 vaccine doses from the state government. According to t[...]
Leidos lands $2B contract to provide military counseling
Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Leidos Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it has received a $2 billion contract to provide nonmedical counseling to military service members and their families through the Department of Defense’s Military and Family Life Counseling (MFLC) program. Under the contract, Leidos will [...]
New drug cocktail appears to block COVID among people exposed to virus
The University of Virginia Health System is testing an antibody cocktail that so far has blocked 100% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among people who were exposed to the coronavirus, U.Va. Health announced this week. New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals produces the treatment, which is being tested at several facilities, and also has proven to be effective […]
