Poetry Contest Announced For Fourth Of July
Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday the America250 Poetry Contest, inviting West Virginians of all ages to submit original poems.
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Hospital Closures
Willie Carver Jr. And Marina Waters, Inside Appalachia
This week, in author Willie Carver, Jr.’s new book, he reconsiders a negative childhood experience with a neighborhood girl who might have just been looking for a friend. Also, a southwestern Virginia community rang the alarm after more and more of its children were diagnosed with cancer. A local journalist is trying to unravel the cause. And, the city of Asheville has a new crusading reporter. He’s a puppet.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSaving Rural Hospitals, This West Virginia Morning
America’s rural hospitals are closing at an alarming pace. That’s become a concern in many parts of West Virginia. We look at nearby Tennessee, which has the highest hospital closure rate in the nation – but also some shining examples of hope. WPLN’s Health Reporter Catherine Sweeney takes us to Linden – a Tennessee town where the shuttered hospital there has recently reopened.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHow Hospital Closures Are Affecting Rural Communities, This West Virginia Morning
In rural communities across America, there are people traveling many miles from home to deliver babies. In the past five years, nearly 125 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies or announced that they will. That’s about two closings a month. On the next Us & Them, host Trey Kay hears from families facing that change, and how it’s affecting prospects for their rural cities and towns.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWNC Hospital Draws Criticism For Care, Labor Practices After Shift To For-Profit Model
In Asheville, North Carolina, Mission Hospital serves the metro area and its surrounding rural counties. But in recent years, the hospital has been scrutinized, and even federally investigated, for a range of problems.
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Encore: Maternal Medicine In The Mountains
This week on Inside Appalachia, amid recent hospital closures, Appalachian women are having to travel farther and farther to give birth. We also learn how seed libraries and community gardens are helping to protect heirloom seeds from being lost. And we hear more from our series on greyhound racing. This year, West Virginia will be home to the last two remaining greyhound racetracks in the United States.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWVU To Spend $110 Million Rebuilding Fairmont Medical Center
A hospital that almost shut down last year is now expanding under new ownership. Over the course of about five years, WVU plans to completely rebuild the Marion County hospital “in place”, which was originally built in the 1930s.
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