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The MSV delivers timely news and information that impact the practice of medicine in Virginia.
The Virginia General Assembly has passed two identical bills in the 2024 session to: Expand access to the SafeHaven program to dentists and dental hygienists Authorize the SafeHaven program to provide outpatient health care to health care professionals Encourage health care professionals to voluntarily seek behavioral health services without fear of mandatory reports to health […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Roger Marshall (R-KS), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced a bipartisan resolution designating March 18, 2024 as Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness. The date was selected to coincide with the day that the senators’ bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen […]
via VDH Dear Colleague: This letter provides updates on mpox, measles, and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Increase in Mpox Cases in Virginia Since November 1, 2023, seven mpox cases have been reported to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) from the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Northwest regions. Among these seven patients, two were hospitalized, three were coinfected […]
via Richmond Times Dispatch Dr. Trudy Shahady was feeling burnt out. It was during the height of the pandemic, and three unvaccinated patients had died of COVID-19 in the span of one week. She needed help, she decided. So she called a program that existed nowhere else in the country — one that allows doctors to […]
This is the 14th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2024 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small (15-99 U.S. employees); […]
Legislation Named in Honor of Dr. Lorna Breen, a Charlottesville Native Who Died by Suicide While Serving on Front Lines of the Pandemic via kaine.senate.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Todd Young (R-IN) and U.S. Representatives Jen Kiggans (R-VA-2), […]
How physician pay cuts in 2024 impact patient care From 2001 to 2023, Medicare payment has declined 26% when adjusted for inflation. What are the real-world consequences of declining Medicare physician payment? Dr. Alice Coombs, an anesthesiologist and internist at VCU Health, joins to discuss the ways this underpayment impacts physicians and patient care, including […]