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• Saturday's WVU home football game to affect patient, visitor, employee parking on campus

  Friday, September 24, 2021

  Update: The F3/F4 parking area will be closed starting at midnight Thursday night for maintenance related to football game preparation.

• Repair work will close part of Medical Center Drive on Oct. 9

  Monday, September 20, 2021

  A section of Medical Center Drive, adjacent to the new Children’s Hospital construction area, will be closed Saturday, Oct. 9 from approximately 8-11 a.m. as work will be done to repair a trench that crosses the roadway.

• Central West Virginia fundraising drive yields $1.1 million for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital

  Monday, September 20, 2021

  Nicholas County entrepreneurs Steve Antoline and Steve Ferguson helped raise more than $1.1 million to support the new WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital through a targeted community fundraising effort in central West Virginia.

• Saturday's WVU home football game to affect patient, visitor, employee parking on campus

  Friday, September 17, 2021

  WVU faces non-conference opponent Virginia Tech in the second game of its home schedule for the 2021 football season on Saturday, Sept. 18. Kickoff is set for noon.

• Virtual 'Mindful Steps' series scheduled to begin Sept. 20

  Thursday, September 16, 2021

  Led by a team of expert instructors, a free, six-week series is designed to assist in developing and maintaining mindful resilience, mental fitness, and relaxation. The "Mindful Steps" series will take place virtually from noon to 1 p.m. every Monday, from Sept. 20 through Oct. 25.

• WVU Medicine to implement program to reduce barriers to care

  Thursday, September 16, 2021

  WVU Medicine is implementing a new program through its electronic medical record system, Epic, to help address social determinants of health, or barriers, that affect patient health, such as transportation, food, and shelter. This program is supported in part by a $50,000 grant from the Highmark West Virginia Charitable Fund for Health. Announced this past spring, the West Virginia Charitable Fund for Health is a new funding extension of the Highmark Foundation and was established to specifically address and improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for individuals who live in West Virginia. The inaugural grant cycle of Highmark’s West Virginia Charitable Fund included awarding major grants of up to $50,000 to organizations for initiatives throughout West Virginia that target and improve health outcomes in priority health areas – community health, family health, access to care, service delivery systems, chronic disease, and oral health. The program will exist as an extension of the current Epic software and give providers a list of community-based organizations to which patients can be referred, such as a local food pantry or transportation service. “Social barriers, such as not having a place to sleep at night or not having a means of transportation to make it to your doctor’s appointment, can have a significant impact on a person’s health,” Chris McCormick, WVU Medicine Population Health director, said. “In fact, research has associated 40 percent of a person’s health to socioeconomic factors, making it incredibly difficult to manage and treat chronic disease without considering social barriers.” The system allows bi-directional communication, allowing providers to review the patient’s file and see if the organization received the referral and was able to follow up with the patient.

• Conference for Advanced Practice Providers postponed

  Thursday, September 16, 2021

  The first annnual Advanced Practice Providers Education Conference originally scheduled for Friday, Sept. 24 has been postponed until spring, 2022 as APPs are helping to address staffing shortages due to a surge in COVID-19 patients at WVU Hospitals.

• Child Development Center offering spots for school-age programming Sept. 15-24

  Tuesday, September 14, 2021

  The WVU Medicine Child Development Center is, once again, offering school-age programming (kindergarten through sixth grade) Monday through Friday, from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept.15-24, on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Today's WVU home football game to affect patient, visitor, employee parking on campus

  Saturday, September 11, 2021

  WVU faces nonconference opponent Long Island in the first game of its home schedule for the 2021 football season on Saturday, Sept. 11. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m.

• Read Dr. Clay Marsh’s latest blog – A Critical Moment for West Virginia

  Thursday, September 9, 2021

  The following blog, titled “A Critical Moment for West Virginia,” was written by Clay Marsh, MD, West Virginia COVID-19 czar and vice president and executive dean for WVU Health Sciences: