
Nan Grogan Orrock: The budget and Pentagon spending
Budget decisions in Washington come home to roost right here close to home. And the impact can be devastating.

Budget decisions in Washington come home to roost right here close to home. And the impact can be devastating.

Augusta Health received an affirmation of its A1 credit rating with a stable outlook from Moody’s Investor Services, a leading provider of credit ratings research and risk analysis

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

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

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

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

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

Augusta Health’s Main Laboratory in Fishersville has been re-accredited by the College of American Pathologists after an on-site inspection

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

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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