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#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Increasing the local Children’s Miracle Network fund-raising goal from $300,000 last year to $350,000 this year might have seemed a lofty ambition to some. But not to an ...

As the weather turns warmer and people begin to enjoy the great outdoors, picnics are a frequent occurrence. Without the proper precautions, however, picnickers – and other outdoor fans – may become the main course. According to the U.S. Food and Drug ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}ROGERSVILLE – Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital has been reaccredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations for a three-year term. Accreditation ...

NORTON, Va. – Representatives of Dickenson County Medical Center recently presented a $13,400 donation to the Southwest Virginia Regional Cancer Center to help in the fight against cancer. The money was raised during Dickenson County’s Crusade for a ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – The Lung Center at Holston Valley Medical Center has been accredited by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists. Accreditation was ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}ROGERSVILLE – For individuals who suffer from abnormal kidney function, driving long distances for medical care can be a taxing experience. That’s why Hawkins County Memorial Hospital ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}An innovative Wellmont Health System program that is helping area students understand the dangers of skin cancer has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT –Holston Valley Medical Center officials will gather with city and economic development leaders Thursday, Nov. 15, to celebrate the beginning of construction of a ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}Because patients want and need healthcare answers fast, Wellmont Health System physicians are utilizing telemedicine to “virtually” practice medicine in two places at once. Both Lonesome ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Few projects, perhaps, are so aptly named. The Heritage Wall at Holston Valley Medical Center is as its name implies – a wall filled with the artifacts, the mementos and the ...

Wellmont Health System has been named one of the state’s top three community training centers for cardiopulmonary resuscitation by the American Heart Association. From July 1, 2000, to June 30, Wellmont hospitals trained or retrained a total of 5,392 ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Dick Warlock, heart No. 8,602, enjoys hosting karaoke parties at his Colonial Heights home. Nathan Hale, heart No. 76, continues his efforts to better Washington County’s ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Holston Valley Medical Center’s trauma center, one of only six designated Level I trauma centers in the state, has been granted continued Level I trauma center designation ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BIG STONE GAP, Va. – An innovative program that has dramatically decreased the use of patient restraints at Lonesome Pine Hospital will be featured in a nationwide Joint Commission on ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – The recurring blockage in his coronary arteries that sidelined Vice President Dick Cheney earlier this year affects thousands of Americans annually. A breakthrough treatment ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – Patients at Bristol Regional Medical Center are discovering the healing power of music thanks to a new addition to the hospital lobby. A baby grand player piano has been ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}Highlands Wellmont Health Network, a partnership of Wellmont Health System and Highlands Physicians Inc., has become only the third physician-hospital organization in the nation to ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – The intensive care unit at Bristol Regional Medical Center ranks among the 100 top ICUs in the nation, according to a landmark study released Tuesday. Bristol Regional is one ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – A cutting-edge surgical procedure at Holston Valley Medical Center offers a new treatment option for patients with congestive heart failure. James Merrill, MD, recently ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – For the millions of women nationwide who suffer from stress urinary incontinence, daily activities such as laughing, coughing and sneezing are a source of embarrassment and ...