HEALTHCARE

Health care is on the road – becoming more accessible and affordable in Rockbridge County.

Good Samaritan Hospice has received a massive grant to aid in its mission to help hospice patients around the Roanoke Valley.

10 News Photojournalist Greg Moore shows how first responders in Botetourt County were able to get a nice lunch to celebrate July 4.

Galen College of Nursing now has a new campus in Roanoke.

The new campus is aimed at educating more nurses in Southwest Virginia to help address the nursing shortage.

After recovering from a long battle with COVID-19, one man decided to become a nurse.

LewisGale broke ground on their new NICU after 12 years of petitioning state legislators.

A Community Health Worker training program will be coming to Nelson County, thanks to a three-million-dollar grant.

The organization’s mission is to recruit and retain a qualified, highly skilled healthcare workforce for the region, according to its website.

On Wednesday, the center announced a new Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner would be joining their team, which they say is now serving adults in the town of Bedford and Bedford County.

Carilion Clinic in Roanoke is set to receive $230,000 as part of the donation, which UnitedHealthcare said they’ll use to introduce the Calm and Safe Classrooms counseling program.

On a patient’s worst day, nurses like Helena Tilley are right by their side.

The store’s pharmacy jobs include pharmacists, which require a PharmD, and pharmacy technicians, which require a high school diploma or GED for applicants 18 years and older, Kroger said

A local group is addressing the critical need for wheelchairs at the Salem VA Medical Center.

Headed by women, the group continues to change lives around the world through free full knee replacement surgeries.

As Monkeypox continues to spread in the United States, local health officials have begun administering vaccines to those most at risk.

Leaders said that between January and June 2022, 39 employees reported an injury in the workplace.

On Monday, Senators Tim Kaina, Lisa Murkowski, Kyrsten Sinema, and Susan Collins introduced the Reproductive Freedom For All Act to protect and prohibit further action in reproductive healthcare, according to a release.

Caden Price suffers from Biliary Atresia and needed a transplant, but now his health has taken a miraculous turn for the better.

Lots of changes are coming to LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, and for the first time ever, three women are leading the hospital.

On Tuesday, LewisGale Medical Center’s Blue Hills Emergency Room will open on Route 460.

Democratic senators are introducing a bill that would protect women seeking an abortion.

The Robertson Behavioral Health Wing will offer services to low-income residents, including those without insurance. The expansion includes six new counseling rooms and group counseling spaces.

Centra announced Monday that the anonymous $1M donation will fund the Commonwealth’s first emPATH unit, with construction beginning this fall.

For too many people living in our region, access to basic and emergency care is simply out of reach.

On Thursday, Pinnacle Treatment Centers announced that they will be celebrating the opening of Martinsville Treatment Services with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 12.

Communities across the nation can help this couple out – after his life was saved in 2017 through a liver transplant procedure, he is now facing emergency complications that put his life at risk, and medical expenses are piling up faster than ever.

In a press release Monday, Roanoke College announced its partnership with Carilion Clinic to provide healthcare across the Roanoke Valley, as well as prepare students for future careers.

This is just the beginning for healthcare centers in the region who said the work is far from over.

Frontline workers gathered outside Lynchburg General and Virginia Baptist hospitals. Centra also held a similar event at Bedford Memorial Hospital.

On National Nurses Day, local nurses are sharing their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dunkin’ wants to honor healthcare heroes for their continued work managing the coronavirus pandemic with a free cup of coffee on National Nurses Day.

The 600 employees will be offered positions by new management, so the nearly 500 residents will be seeing familiar faces.

LYNCHBURG, Va. – One year after COVID-19 hit our area, Centra Health leaders recalled Friday how the pandemic has impacted their care. But COVID-19 was a storm Centra couldn’t forecast, a health care hurricane forcing them to change course. A panel of frontline workers said looking back on a full year of the pandemic, they had to assess how they’d deal with the volume. Centra reports they finished summer 2020 with 45 positive cases, though another wave brought more patients and a record-high of 133 positive cases in January. While cases and COVID-related deaths are decreasing, Dr. Cook said the biggest challenge is making sure people maintain precautions as vaccines rollout.

Willie Johnson took this photo of the Christmas lights on Girvin Road. With the nice weather this weekend you may be thinking of taking your Christmas lights down but one big healthcare system wants you to keep them up. The parent company of LewisGale Medical Center in Salem and other LewisGale hospitals, HCA, is calling on everyone to keep lights up for healthcare heroes through January. As healthcare workers drive to or from their shift, the holiday lights will express support. HCA is calling upon every citizen, business, and community to keep their holiday lights up through January 31 to recognize those working in healthcare.

(AP Photo/Channi Anand)NEW DELHI — India has reported 48,648 new coronavirus cases, continuing a downward trend in infections even as the country’s caseload has crossed 8 million and is only behind the U.S. The country confirmed 808 new cases on Thursday, bringing the cumulative COVID-19 cases to 100,334, including 712 cases found on a cruise ship earlier this year, according to the ministry figures. About one-third of the cases come from Tokyo, where 221 cases were confirmed Thursday, bringing a prefectural total to 30,677, with 453 deaths. Italy added a record number of new confirmed cases Thursday at more than 26,000. ___LONDON — The World Health Organization says Europe had a record 1.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the last week and has reached 10 million of the 44 million global cases.