Augusta Health named Top 100 hospital

Chris Graham

Augusta Health was today named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. The 100 hospitals on the list demonstrate high-quality patient outcomes while improving efficiency. The objective, independent research evaluated nearly 3000 hospitals on measures of overall…

Jim Bishop: Address, Confess and Bless This Stress Mess

Jim Bishop

“When this ole world starts getting me down, I go up where the air is fresh and sweet. . . ” Where’s that? For the famed rhythm and blues group, The Drifters, their escape route was “Up on the Roof,” to lower their anxiety and stress levels. In the process, this Gerry Goffin-Carole King composition…

#2 UVa. men's lax upset by Johns Hopkins

Chris Graham

Steele Stanwick had three goals and four assists for the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers (7-2), but it wasn’t enough as the No. 11 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (6-2) broke a six-game losing streak to UVa with a 12-11 triumph on Saturday afternoon, inside Homewood Field. Johns Hopkins captured the Doyle Smith Cup for the first…

Ken Plum: Virginia in the nation

Ken Plum

Virginia spends less on per-pupil funding K-12 than does the state of Mississippi, according to an editorial in the Roanoke Times last week. Not much less; but less along with twelve other states that spend less than Mississippi, the state that has always been thought to be the bottom rung on the ladder for school…

Chris DeWald: Stroke/heart stress test

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Hello, readers. This is another adventure in my world that allows me to share information to you. I am going to be utilizing information from this website and tell you about “my time” and how fortunate we have such a great staff at Augusta Health: www.nvcardiology.com/nuclear_imaging.htm. Now, how did I end up doing this test?…

VMI knocks off Longwood

AFP

Graham Sullivan hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the seventh inning to break a 4-4 tie, and Chase Worthington went 2 for 3 with a home run as the VMI Keydets defeated the Longwood Lancers, 5-4, in non-conference baseball action Tuesday night in Farmville, Va. Worthington also started the eventual game-winning rally, as he was…

Y volunteer gets hand up from local nonprofit

Chris Graham

Ginger Quillen showed up for her volunteer job at the Waynesboro YMCA on Monday bundled up like it was winter, and not 70 degrees. Somebody asked her about the extra layers of clothes, noting the warm early-spring temperatures. “It’s cold when you’re coming down the hill on 13th Street,” responded Quillen, who had to cover…