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Richmond investment bank launches health care group
Richmond-based investment bank Matrix Capital Markets Group Inc. announced Wednesday it has established the Matrix Healthcare Banking Group, which will focus on health care subsectors. The industry group will be led by Amanda Verner Thompson and Vasanta B. Pundarika, who joined the firm as managing directors and co-heads of the [...]
Riverside Medical Group names chairman
The board of directors for Riverside Medical Group (RMG), the medical group for the Newport News-based Riverside Health System, announced Wednesday it has elected Dr. David Jones as the group’s new chairman. Jones will replace Dr. Robert Harding, who served for six terms, the maximum allowed under the group’s bylaws. Jones, [...]
NIH awards Fairfax company $39M contract
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Fairfax-based health technology company Vibrent Health $39 million to develop the technology backbone for the NIH’s All of Us research program, which will gather health information of about 1 million Americans to be used for research studies. Under the contract, Vibrent Health will continue as the Participant Technology […]
COVID-19 rates stay steady statewide, with spikes at some colleges
Virginia had 7,813 new COVID-19 cases and 106 deaths from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8, according to the Virginia Department of Health, with the state’s positivity rate at 7.7%, up .3% from the previous week. The new totals are 128,407 cases and 2,686 deaths since March. Several universities have started reporting COVID-19 rates among students, […]
Virginians debate mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations
RICHMOND, Va. — Though the federal government is asking states to prepare for the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine within months, some Virginians differ on whether the vaccine should be mandatory when it becomes available. Virginia Freedom Keepers, a nonprofit that advocates for medical freedom, gathered in Richmond this [...]
Michael Milken joins Focused Ultrasound Foundation board
Michael Milken, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in February over felony charges for securities fraud, has joined the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation’s board, the organization announced Thursday. Milken (often referred to as the “junk bond king”) is credited with being part of the development [...]
16 Va. hospitals ranked on national LGBTQ benchmarking tool
Sixteen Virginia hospitals earned a top score of 100 on the 2020 Healthcare Equality Index survey, a national LGBTQ benchmarking tool from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), released Monday. HEI evaluated more than 1,700 health care facilities’ policies and practices related to equality and inclusion of their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning […]
New COVID-19 cases and deaths rise statewide
The number of COVID-19 cases across the state rose by 6,964 over the past week, bringing the total number to 120,594, the Virginia Department of Health reported Aug. 31. The number of virus-related deaths rose by 109 last week, with a total of 2,580 since March. Both statistics saw increases since the previous week, when […]
Va. Physicians for Women to construct HQ in Midlothian
Virginia Physicians for Women purchased four acres of land for nearly $1.5 million to construct a new headquarters building in Midlothian, commercial real estate brokerage firm NAI Dominion (an office of NAI Global) announced last week. The medical practice purchased the land for the 41,598-square-foot headquarters building from[...]
Health Care
NANCY HOWELL AGEE PRESIDENT AND CEO, CARILION CLINIC, ROANOKE With 13,000-plus health care employees, Carilion Clinic is the largest Roanoke Valley employer, and Agee was born to lead the health system. The Emory University and University of Virginia graduate was delivered at Roanoke Memorial, now one of Carilion’s seven hospitals. She also was a surgical […]
JMU introduces COVID-19 dashboard
Joining other state universities, James Madison University introduced a COVID-19 dashboard Tuesday to track positive results among students, faculty and staff. According to the dashboard, JMU has 24 self-reported cases and four positive tests performed at the university health center; all but one of the cases were among students. The university noted in its description […]
New COVID-19 cases continue to decline statewide; deaths are up
The Virginia Department of Health has reported 113,630 COVID-19 cases as of Aug. 24, an increase of 6,209 cases in the past week. The state also saw 86 more deaths from the coronavirus last week, bringing the total to 2,471. The number of new deaths is up from the previous week’s total of 58, but […]
