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Telehealth helps keep heart patients out of hospital
NEWPORT NEWS -- When a disembodied voice in his Newport News home announces it's time to take his vital signs, Ron Day and his wife, Carol, head upstairs from the living room to a bedroom equipped with...
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CMS expands Medicare savings program for durable medical equipment
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - After a successful two-year pilot in more than half a dozen major cities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expanding its competitive bidding program for durable...
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Virginia medical systems embrace advance medical directives
The new emphasis on patient-centered care, prompted by the Affordable Care Act, is having a spill-over effect. More and more people are documenting what type of medical care they want and don't want...
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Psychiatric advance directives: More patient engagement, better outcomes
In the past few months, Yvonne Hysick, PACT peer specialist for the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board, has helped nine clients complete advance mental health directives. All have...
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Germ-zapping Xenex robot helps hospitals prevent costly infections
At 5 feet 2 inches tall, at best, "Albert" doesn't have a commanding presence. However, Riverside Regional Medical Center is counting on the tubular germ-zapping robot to eradicate hospital acquired...
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Sentara serenades patients to enhance well being and patient satisfaction
Music has the power to modulate the heart rate, lower blood pressure dramatically, improve a person's speech and help recover language. It can serve to reduce anxiety and depression and is a tool in...
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Virginia’s Hampton University gets $13.5M grant for health disparity research
An elated William R. "Bill" Harvey, president of Hampton University, announced Friday that the university had received a $13.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health...
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Device company building handheld scanner to detect brain bleeds using...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va - Traumatic brain injury has taken center stage as a health concern for both the military and sports professionals. Last week, Hillier Ignite, a fledgling philanthropic organization...
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Project CARE orchestrates specialty medical care for thousands of uninsured...
The lifetime waterman shifted uncomfortably on the narrow hospital bed. "I'd rather work a month for free than be here," said Edward "E.C." Hogge, Jr., who operates his deadrise, "Shannon Kay," out of...
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C. diff vaccine to enter final trial before government approval: Volunteers...
[caption id="attachment_25860" align="alignright" width="300"] C. difficile bacteria[/caption]Riverside's Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health in Williamsburg is seeking volunteers for...
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Insurance companies dropping coverage of proton beam therapy for prostate cancer
As the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute completes its third year of treating cancer patients -- half of them for prostate cancer -- insurance companies across the country are dropping...
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Coming up for vote: Medicaid expansion
In a microcosm of the national partisan divide over federal health care reform, popularly known as Obamacare, Virginia has put one element -- the expansion of Medicaid -- front and center in the...
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Health insurance marketplace in Virginia: Focus on education, half-million...
On the first day of 2014, all U.S. residents will be required to have health insurance as dictated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The alternative is to pay a fine. The...
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