The WVU Health Sciences Office of Interprofessional Education will celebrate and share the importance of health care professionals practicing and promoting an interprofessional collaborative approach to person-centered care during a series of events beginning today (April 8) through Thursday (April 11).
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As the female workforce has grown over the last three decades — now representing nearly 70% of health workers worldwide — faculty and staff at West Virginia University Health Sciences have been supported through the Women in Science and Health Committee.
According to the 2023 Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard, West Virginia is currently one of four states leading the nation in helping individuals initiate and engage in treatment for substance use disorder — including alcohol, opioid, and other drug abuse or dependence.
Presented by the School of Nursing and the McDowell County Commission on Aging, nursing student Rylie O'Neal shares information on coping with anxiety and stress.
This two-year program is available to 75 of West Virginia’s top health professions students interested in rural health care across the state. Scholars focus on interprofessional education through clinical, didactic and community-based lenses, while the program emphasizes how each scholar can create change and reshape the status quo for health care in their community.
The cancer care available to West Virginians took a positive turn Tuesday (April 2) with a transformational gift of $50 million the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust is making to the WVU Cancer Institute. The gift will be the catalyst for a new, state-of-the-art, comprehensive cancer hospital that is part of the WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital complex.