Health and Medicine
Recruiting full-time OB/GYNs to LewisGale Hospital Montgomery has been challenging in recent years and we have made the difficult decision to temporarily discontinue obstetrics services at LewisGale Montgomery, effective April 1, 2024. At this time, it is in the best interest of our patients to deliver their babies at our sister facility, LewisGale Medical Center, which delivers more than 1,200 babies each year. Its newly opened Level II neonatal intensive care unit treats medically-fragile, premature infants and full-term newborns with infections, breathing difficulties, growth restrictions, and maternal health concerns.
LewisGale Medical Center is ready to support LewisGale Hospital Montgomery’s obstetric patients with the highest-quality labor and delivery care. While we will no longer deliver babies at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, patients can receive gynecological care, as well as pre-and-postnatal care, at LewisGale Physicians.
- LewisGale spokesperson
The Kirk Family YMCA sees an influx of members this time of year thanks to many New Year’s resolutions regarding fitness; one representative says classes help keep people on track with their goals. WFIR’s Alex Torres has more:
A company specializing in in-home counseling services for juveniles is branching out and offering treatment for substance use disorder at their new location. WFIR’s Emma Thomas has details:
Virginia’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled over campaign is in full force for the holiday season. As WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno reports that means more officers on the road looking for impaired drivers.
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The association representing Virginia’s hospitals has unveiled a new website designed to help you know what health care consumer laws are on the books — and best understand pricing before any scheduled hospital procedures. The Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association started with a statewide poll, one that found that most Virginians are unaware of state and federal health care rights laws, some protecting patients from things like surprise medical bills, others promoting transparency in health care cost information. Then it conducted focus group session in three cities, one of them in Roanoke, where most people expressed similar unfamiliarity. That has led to the “Control Your Care” campaign, the main goals being to explain those state and federal laws in plain English and provide helpful health care cost information. WFIR’s Evan Jones has more:
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Three Virginia Veteran care centers have been renamed including one in Roanoke. Govenor Glenn Youngkin was in the area this morning for a ceremony to mark the renaming. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno has more.