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This summer, 16 teen volunteers contributed 1338 volunteer hours to Augusta Health. Teen volunteers have finished ninth grade, are at least 14 ½ years old, and have demonstrated and interest in working in healthcare
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While the debate on the federal Affordable Care Act continues, key provisions of the Act are becoming effective. Last week preventive care provisions for women took effect
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When Laila Stones sent a letter to the Commonwealth of Virginia requesting a copy of her birth certificate, the response was jarring: “They say I don’t exist,” she recounts under oath
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The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce supported the last increase in the federal minimum wage in July 2009 and we believe another raise is overdue. The business owners I talk with every day say that, far from hurting their businesses, raising the minimum wage in fact helps small businesses and the broader economy
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Augusta Health has received the 2012 HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, ranking in the top 5 percent of all hospitals in the United States in patient safety for the third year in a row
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Augusta Health’s Main Laboratory in Fishersville has been re-accredited by the College of American Pathologists after an on-site inspection
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Jerry Benson, PhD., Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at James Madison University, has been elected to the RMH Board of Directors
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On Friday, U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, volunteered at the Remote Area Medical Clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds
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The Virginia Department of Health AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is taking the final steps toward elimination of the ADAP waitlist
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Consumer Reports magazine gave RMH one of the highest patient safety ratings among Virginia hospitals included in a study released in its August issue
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