by Laurence Hammack | Dec 7, 2014 | Health care
For the fourth time this year, state officials are investigating a Roanoke County nursing home that has already been cited for 45 deficiencies – the most for any such facility in Virginia. Regulators with the Department of Health were at Richfield Recovery and...
by Laurence Hammack | Nov 1, 2014 | Health care
The competition between Southwest Virginia’s two major health care systems can be as fierce as what you see on a college football field. Which may explain why officials at Carilion Clinic were so perturbed when Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer began...
by Laurence Hammack | Dec 29, 2013 | Health care
Next year, Nathan Auldridge will be as much a cancer survivor as he has been for the past eight years. There will be a difference, though, one that he calls life-changing. Because of his pre-existing condition, Auldridge has been paying $483 a month for health...
by Laurence Hammack | Dec 8, 2013 | Health care
MONTEREY — Ann Foster’s allergies have taken her over many a mountain in search of a cure. Foster lives in rural Highland County, where there is no hospital, no practicing physician, not even a pharmacy. To see a pulmonary specialist, Foster recently...
by Laurence Hammack | Oct 13, 2013 | Health care
First thing on the morning of Oct. 1, Candice Verwey logged on to her computer to shop for health insurance from her dining room table. That was how it was supposed to work under the Affordable Care Act: Go to healthcare.gov, enter your personal information, see if...
by Laurence Hammack | Sep 29, 2013 | Health care
As a steady rain sets in on Roanoke’s Pride in the Park festival, Robin Davis hunkers under a tent and prepares for the work ahead. Davis takes brochures about health insurance and the Affordable Care Act from a cardboard box. She places them in giveaway...