Health Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Mar 25

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Ohio Valley Facing Pandemic With A Health System Hollowed Out By Hospital Closures

As new cases of coronavirus mount in the Ohio Valley, health officials are bracing for an onslaught of patients and what could be unprecedented demand for beds, medical staff and specialized equipment. Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have disproportionately high rates of people vulnerable to serious illness from COVID-19. But the region’s capacity to treat […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Mar 25

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Ohio Valley Facing Pandemic With A Health System Hollowed Out By Hospital Closures

By Liam Niemeyer

Mar 18

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Ohio Valley Automakers Hit Brakes To Limit Coronavirus Transmission

Automakers across the Ohio Valley are temporarily closing their plants in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That includes the big three U.S. automakers — Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler — and Toyota. In a release, GM said it will be suspending manufacturing in North America due to market conditions and to deep clean facilities. […]

By Becca Schimmel

Mar 18

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Ohio Valley Automakers Hit Brakes To Limit Coronavirus Transmission

Becca Schimmel

Mar 13

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“We Can’t Get To Everybody”: Hospital Closures, Underfunded Health Centers Hinder Coronavirus Response

Local public health departments and hospitals are on the front lines of facing the coronavirus throughout the Ohio Valley, yet the health professionals who run these facilities say years of underfunding and hospital closures have diminished these services that now face the crisis. Dan Brown, a former councilman for the riverside village of Bellaire, Ohio, […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Mar 13

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“We Can’t Get To Everybody”: Hospital Closures, Underfunded Health Centers Hinder Coronavirus Response

Liam Niemeyer

Mar 13

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Coronavirus School Closures Send Teachers, Parents Scrambling To Adjust

School systems across the Ohio Valley are responding to the coronavirus pandemic by canceling face-to-face classes and extending spring breaks. That’s left teachers, administrators and parents scrambling to meet the unexpected challenges to care for, feed, and educate children while they are away from school. Ashley Blankenship has two school-age children in Athens, Ohio. One […]

By Becca Schimmel and Sydney Boles

Mar 13

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Coronavirus School Closures Send Teachers, Parents Scrambling To Adjust

Becca Schimmel and Sydney Boles

Mar 10

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Ohio Valley Colleges And Universities Respond To Coronavirus Threat

College administrators around the region are weighing their options as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes the lectures, events and dormitories of campus life potential means of transmission of the highly infectious virus. Several schools are opting for distance learning and suspending in-person classes. The Ohio Valley ReSource and its partner stations will update this story […]

By Jeff Young

Mar 10

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Ohio Valley Colleges And Universities Respond To Coronavirus Threat

Jeff Young

Mar 1

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Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction

“You seen that one with the tombstone up there?” seven-year-old Timothy Easterling asks, looking toward the grass just uphill from his home. “That’s my papaw.” Timothy’s grandfather Chet Blankenship died in 2016, at age 69. Blankenship lived on land he and his family have long owned at the end of a road atop Bradshaw Mountain […]

By Benny Becker

Mar 1

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Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Benny Becker

Feb 26

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“Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds

Just three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for disabled coal miners, the Government Accountability said in a report released Wednesday. The report comes after a 2018 analysis by the same agency which found the Black Lung Disability Trust […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 26

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“Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds

Sydney Boles

Feb 21

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Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change

Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to slow down, even when his men told him he was overexerting himself. But when […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 21

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Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change

Sydney Boles

Feb 7

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Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access

Center for Disease Control and Prevention data indicate opioid overdose deaths in the Ohio Valley declined in 2018, the first time in nearly a decade. Researchers say this is cause for optimism. But two new studies warn that access to medication assisted treatment, or MAT, for people with opioid use disorders continues to be a […]

By Aaron Payne

Feb 7

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Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access

Aaron Payne

Feb 6

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Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing

Americans are divided on lots of issues. But a new national survey finds that people across the political spectrum agree on at least one thing: Our health care system needs fixing. The “Hidden Common Ground” survey from Public Agenda, USA Today and Ipsos found that 92 percent of Americans say changes are needed. And a […]

By Christine Herman

Feb 6

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Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing

Christine Herman