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Us & Them: Just How Healthy Is West Virginia's Health Care System?

The coronavirus confronts every aspect of our society — with our health care systems front and center in the crosshairs. When hospitals canceled nonessential medical procedures at the beginning of the pandemic, it created an economic free fall.  U.S. hospitals have lost $200 billion dollars and laid off nearly a million workers.

Urban hospitals and clinics have faced a run on equipment and supplies. While rural facilities have seen fewer COVID-19 cases, they took the same hit to their income and revenue.  Now the question may be — just how healthy is our health care system and which institutions will survive to help redefine the future of medicine?

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Clinic Participating in Lung Cancer Program

A Kanawha County clinic is participating in a pilot program to screen patients for lung cancer.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the American Cancer Society is overseeing the three-year project with support from a $1.25 million grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation’s Bridging Cancer Care initiative.

Cabin Creek Health Systems will receive $75,000 a year for three years to help develop the program.

State health statistics indicate West Virginia has one of the highest lung cancer rates in the country.

Shauna Shafer of the American Cancer Society says the funding will help Cabin Creek build electronic records, identify and contact patients who qualify for the screening and navigate patients to treatment, among other things.

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