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Augusta Health will celebrate Heart Month with its annual Heart Health Fair, featuring several free screenings. This year, the event will take place on Wednesday, February 27 from 3 pm to 6 pm in the new Heart and Vascular Center on the Augusta Health campus. Tours of the new center, including the cardiac catheterization labs, will also be available.
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During the third and fourth quarters of 2012, 36 Augusta Health employees earned national certifications in their areas of expertise, and two finished college degrees. Certifications require demonstration of extensive knowledge in a subject area, usually by examination, and degrees require a commitment of years of study and commitment.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced the membership of his newly created Rural Jobs Council. This Council will build upon the success of the Governor’s Commission on Job Creation and Economic Development and continue the Administration’s focus on Virginia’s rural communities.
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We tend to see mental illness as something that happens out there, to stigmatized strangers on the fringe of our churches, when in fact mental health issues affect our families, friends, loved ones, congregants, and many of us personally. In short, mental illness is experienced by everyone in church communities – by “us” and our loved ones, not just by “them.”
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Enrolled in the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) in Beer-Sheva, Israel, Bethany Johnson is exactly where she wanted to be after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in 2012 with a degree in biology: well on her way to a career in medical missions.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell and Science Museum of Virginia Chief Wonder Officer Richard C. Conti are pleased to announce Virginia’s Outstanding Scientists of 2013 and the recipient of the governor’s Award for Science Innovation presented by Altria.
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RMH has launched an integrative medicine practice in Harrisonburg, offering a unique approach to primary care that combines traditional and non-traditional medicine and therapies.
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As cracks form among CEOs and Republican Members of Congress over their hardline anti-tax position in the fiscal showdown, religious leaders from across the ideological spectrum have been united in supporting new revenue over additional spending cuts. And they’re speaking for their people. A strong majority of religious Americans favor letting the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans expire. Even reliably conservative groups, such as white evangelical Protestants, are evenly divided on the issue.
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Mike Burris has been named vice president and chief financial officer for the Sentara Blue Ridge Region, which is currently comprised of RMH Healthcare in Harrisonburg and Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville.
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One proud graduate came from Oregon. Another from Lancaster, Pa. They were two of nine who gathered one day in the fall of 2012 to celebrate completing the first online master’s degree program offered at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) – a master’s of science in nursing program.
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