Anthem BCBS donates $125,000 to Virginia’s community colleges

UVA Health and a coalition of Southwest Virginia healthcare groups are partnering to increase telehealth services. Services will be possible with funding from a $5.1 million federal grant. The goal of the Virginia Consortium to Advance Healthcare in Appalachia by bringing together the UVA Center for Telehealth, the Healthy Appalachia...

The pediatric pulmonary clinic at UVA Children’s Hospital manages nearly 300 ongoing cases of children with significant heart or lung disease, or other types of genetic or neuromuscular diseases, such that the children can’t breathe on their own, who need around-the-clock care. The challenge for these children, their...

I had a passing moment of wonder the other day – as I read about the latest . . . you know, mass shootings. Troubled souls with guns. Big problem. My thought was simply this: What if . . .? And then I lapsed into uncertainty. What if . . . violence were not the simplistic and obvious – and only – solution to so many problems? Violence presents itself, in our imaginations (and in our games, in our movies, in our defense budget), as consequence-free, instantaneous and, for God’s sake, necessary. It’s the essence – it’s the definition – of empowerment.