Emily Rice
Appalachia Health News Reporter at West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Managing Editor at Executive Ink LLC Former features and associate editor @BDTonline and Pmag. Former photographer and education reporter @TheJournalCO.
Articles
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1 month ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
Optometrists, the doctors who diagnose and treat eyes, will soon be able to perform some surgeries that only ophthalmologists, or eye surgeons, could handle, thanks to Senate Bill 565 that became law without Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s signature on April 30. The new law is set to take effect on July 9, 2025.
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2 months ago |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
Emergency Services in West Virginia’s third most populous county are joining the state’s whole blood transfusion program to help medics better stabilize patients in critical condition during ambulance rides. Starting May 1, Monongalia EMS (Mon EMS) will be able to perform whole blood transfusions. Last year, West Virginia became the first state in the nation to provide statewide protocols for the administration of whole blood on ambulances.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
On February 24, Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers issued an administrative order calling Department of Human Services (DoHS) Cabinet Secretary Alex Mayer to discuss the department’s practice of housing foster children in hotels and 4-H camps. Akers said at a public hearing Feb. 28 her court order was prompted by the attempted suicide of a 12-year-old child in a Charleston-area hotel on February 18, three days after he was removed from an unsuccessful foster care placement.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
Local healthcare advocates asked Senator Shelley Moore Capito and incoming Senator Jim Justice to vote against President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Robert Kennedy, Jr. According to Protect Our Care West Virginia, more than 600,000 West Virginia residents rely on at least one federal program for health insurance coverage.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
wvpublic.org | Emily Rice
West Virginia Attorney General and soon-to-be Governor, Patrick Morrisey announced in a Wednesday morning press release that criminal neglect charges have been filed against two Hopemont Hospital nurses in connection with the January 2024 death of an elderly nonverbal patient in long-term state care.
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