The line item in the state budget for the Wise-based free clinic had been recurring since 2006, but was removed from the 2024 budget following reports of outsized compensation for executive leadership and other employees.
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CEO of free clinic serving Appalachia saw pay package nearly double over 2 years, tax forms show
The Health Wagon serves an area where more than half of households live in poverty. The head of the nonprofit received a compensation package worth $520,000 in 2022, well beyond that of comparable executives in wealthier regions of Virginia.
House committee tasked with examining rural health care access holds first meeting in Southwest Virginia
The new committee will have until December to create a list of five actionable items or recommendations to be introduced during the 2025 General Assembly session.
Centra and its oncology provider part ways, leaving patients with questions
Lynchburg-based Centra Health has brought in 19 traveling health care workers to start its own hematology and oncology clinic.
Carilion seeks to expand inpatient medical rehabilitation services in Roanoke
Carilion Clinic will be required to submit an application to the state’s Certificate of Public Need Division that demonstrates the need for these services in the region.
CEO of Centra Health steps down; interim leader named
Amy Carrier had held the position since September 2021.
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl
In the six years since lawmakers in both states waived anti-monopoly laws and Ballad was formed, ER visits for patients sick enough to be hospitalized grew more than three times as long and now far exceed the criteria set by state officials.
Foresight sells Patrick County hospital site; plans behavioral health center instead
Foresight Health purchased the shuttered hospital in 2022 with a promise to reopen it, but little work was ever done on the building.
State investigation of a Carilion hospital found risk to patient safety due to improper cleaning of surgical instruments
Hospital leaders say that new safety measures are in place, and that no patients came into contact with sullied instruments.
Chicago company proposed donating hospital building to Patrick County — for a price
Foresight Health said it would hand over the property if the county paid half of the company’s expenses related to the project. Included on the list of expenses: more than $457,000 in private jet travel and stays at luxury resorts.