Cabell Huntington Hospital Earns Optum’s Center of Excellence Designation

Cabell Huntington Hospital’s Center for Surgical Weight Control has been named a Center of Excellence (COE) for bariatric surgery by the Clinical Sciences Institute of Optum®. A COE designation is given to medical practices that combine top-quality clinical care with excellent patient support and better patient outcomes. Optum Centers of Excellence are reviewed annually and…

Appalachian Heritage Day Inaugural Event

Southern West Virginia Community College will be hosting its first-ever Appalachian Heritage Day. The event will include award-winning old-time musicians, scholars, authors, and various other vendors from around the state and region. All media are invited to attend. Video and still photography opportunities are available, and the assembled artisans will be available for interviews. WHAT:…

Commerce Secretary Gaunch continues business listening tour with visits to Wyoming and Raleigh counties

Commerce Secretary Ed Gaunch today completed his latest set of visits to local businesses throughout West Virginia as part of an ongoing statewide listening tour. Secretary Gaunch’s recent stops came in the southern West Virginia counties of Wyoming and Raleigh, Aug. 13 and 14. “Southern West Virginia has suffered more from the downturn in the…

Capito, Manchin Announce More Than $7 Million to Help Homeless Veterans

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a collection of grants totaling more than $7 million dollars to support homeless veterans under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program. “Veterans can often face difficulties acclimating after their…

Spilman Plays Major Role in First-of-Its-Kind Labor & Employment Law Book

Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that four of the firm’s lawyers contributed to a first-of-its-kind book, “Trial Techniques for the Labor and Employment Law Practitioner,” published by the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law. “A book like this has never been done before,” said Eric W. Iskra, who served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the…