Cabell Huntington Hospital’s (CHH) Center for Surgical Weight Control has been named a Center of Excellence (COE) for bariatric surgery by the Clinical Sciences Institute of Optum®. CHH has received this award five times. A COE designation is given to medical practices that combine top-quality clinical care with excellent patient support and better patient outcomes.…
Clear Mountain Bank welcomes Maggie Robey as a commercial lender serving the bank’s Oakland, MD and Terra Alta, WV markets. In her position, Robey will service the bank’s business and commercial customers to assist them with their commercial lending needs and offer strategic financial business solutions. Robey brings to Clear Mountain Bank more than 29…
Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels is now available to customers throughout West Virginia, thanks to Mary Anne Ketelsen, CEO of Mister Bee Potato Chips. After Ketelsen tried and loved the product, she then learned the North Dakota family-owned business has never sold its thriving product in West Virginia. That led her to purchase the rights to allow…
West Virginians helping West Virginians has never been more important. During a year of uncertainty, an unprecedented stay-at-home order, business closings, layoffs, remote work and fear, citizens of the Mountain State have proven once again that in the face of adversity, they take care of their own.
Optometric Physician, White Eye Care Center, Inc. By Jennifer Jett-Prezkop Dr. Ed White would likely have been an aerospace engineer, empowering mankind to explore the heavens, had it not been for NASA budget cuts in 1969 and 1970 that eliminated promising aerospace jobs. NASA’s loss, however, was the great gain of the optometry field and…
As the rise and fall in the demand for coal continues for established uses like power generation, one West Virginia-based company is developing innovative applications for the state’s most prominent export. As the rise and fall in the demand for coal continues for established uses like power generation, one West Virginia-based company is developing innovative applications for the state’s most prominent export. Because coal is a hydrocarbon with unique properties, it can easily be converted to a wide range of products, and Wheeling-based Touchstone Research Laboratories is committed to finding alternative uses for coal in research, manufacturing and commercialization.