WMC Offers Local Students Sports Physicals
One student-athlete dies every three days in the United States from a sudden heart-related incident.
That’s a statistic Weirton Medical Center and ...
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WMC Welcomes General Surgeon Dr. Venkata Kella
Weirton Medical Center announces the addition of Dr. Venkata K. Kella to its staff. Dr. Kella, who most recently was serving a Minimally Invasive/Bar...
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WMC Recognized for Quality Care by Highmark
Weirton Medical Center was recognized recently for its quality of care by the Highmark West Virginia Hospital QualityBlueSM Pay for Performance Progra...
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WMC First in Region to Offer New Knee Surgery
Weirton Medical Center is the first hospital in the Ohio Valley to offer patients who need total knee replacements custom-designed implants that fit t...
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WMC Opens Geriatric Behavioral Medicine Center
Weirton Medical Center (WMC) has opened a new 18-bed inpatient unit for the care and treatment of older adults with behavioral health problems.
The...
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WMC Awarded Gold Seal for Quality Care
Weirton Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commissio...
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WMC Mammography Goes Digital Thanks to Foundation Grant
Weirton Medical Center’s mammography service has gone digital, thanks to a grant of $592,700 from the Weirton Medical Center Foundation. The medical c...
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Weirton Medical Center Receives Allstate Foundation Grant
Dr. Joseph P. Endrich, left, president and chief executive officer of Weirton Medical Center, receives a $1,000 check from Weirton Allstate Insurance ...
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Weirton Medical Center Donates Ventilators to WVNCC
Weirton Medical Center recently donated two Puritan Bennett 7200 ventilators to West Virginia Northern Community College for student training. Ventila...
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Transradial Arterial Catheterization Introduced at Weirton Medical Center
Stanley C. Mannino, M.D., Weirton Medical Center cardiologist, described the advantages of what is called “transradial arterial (TRA) access for coron...
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Weirton Medical Center Opens Advanced Cardiovascular Lab
In an effort to help its physicians provide faster and more efficient cardiac care to Ohio Valley residents, Weirton Medical Center has opened a new a...
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Weirton Medical Center First in the Area to Offer In-house Vitamin D Testing
Weirton Medical Center is the first hospital in the area to offer in-house vitamin D testing. Vitamin D is essential in the formation and maintenance ...
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Weirton Medical Center is First Hospital in the Region to Offer Advanced “Intelligent” Lab Analyzers
Weirton Medical Center announced that it is the first hospital in the region to install two Siemens’ Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab Systems and t...
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Weirton Medical Center Appoints Robert A. Frank Chief Financial Officer
Joseph P. Endrich, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Weirton Medical Center, announced that Robert A. Frank has been appointed chief fina...
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Sherry Zisk, RN, Appointed Chief Nursing Officer
Weirton Medical Center President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Joseph P. Endrich announced that Sherry Zisk, R.N., has been appointed chief nursing ...
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WMC Appoints Barbara Coalter to HR Position
Weirton Medical Center welcomes Barbara Coalter to the position of director of human resources. A Weirton native, Ms. Coalter has more than 20 years o...
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Weirton Medical Center Named to 2011 HomeCare Elite for Third Year
Weirton Medical Center announced that it has been named to the 2011 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the U...
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Weirton Medical Center Earns National Quality Awards
Weirton Medical Center has received four awards in a national study that rewards hospitals for delivering high quality care in key clinical areas. The...
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Weirton Medical Center Selects TeamHealth for Emergency Services
Weirton Medical Center is partnering with TeamHealth, one of the nation’s leading providers of emergency department staffing and management services. ...
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Chester Medical Care Celebrates Opening
Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce, Weirton Medical Center and local residents celebrated the opening of Chester Medical Care at 111 First Street in Che...
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Weirton Medical Center Outlook Upgraded
Weirton Medical Center officials announced that Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ’BB’ rating on $7 million in hospital revenue bonds (series 2001A) and ...
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Dr. Craig R. Oser named as a top plastic surgeon in West Virginia
Plastic surgeon Dr. Craig R. Oser has been selected as one of the Top Plastic Surgeons in West Virginia by the International Association of Healthcare...
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What's keeping you awake at night?
March 7 – 13 is National Sleep Awareness Week and Weirton Medical’s Sleep Center wants to create awareness of various sleep disorders and ways to trea...
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Weirton Medical Center receives grant from The Allstate Foundation
Dr. Joseph P. Endrich, left, president and chief executive officer of Weirton Medical Center, receives a $1,000 check from Weirton Allstate Insurance ...
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Weirton Medical Center's Home Health Service Receives National Award
November is National Home Care Month and Weirton Medical Center’s Home Health Service received news that for the second straight year it has been name...
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Weirton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Unit Receives Deficiency-Free State Inspection
Weirton Medical Center’s skilled nursing unit is the latest of its departments and services to receive excellent scores on an annual inspection. The m...
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Weirton Sleep Center Receives Program Re-Accreditation
The Weirton Sleep Center recently received program re-accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).
“The American Academy of Sl...
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Weirton Medical Center Recognized in Statewide Quality Initiative
Weirton Medical Center was among 22 hospitals across West Virginia that were honored by the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership (WVPP) in November for...
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Weirton Medical Center Offers PET/CT Scans
Weirton Medical Center began offering PET/CT scans in January with a new, PET/CT system (positron emission tomography combined with a computer-assiste...
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Weirton Medical Center Cuts ER Waiting Time
Emergency physicians at Weirton Medical Center are now waiting to see patients - a reversal of the typical hospital emergency room scenario. Thanks to...
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Weirton Medical Center Introduces New Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery Service
Weirton Medical Center has launched a new service with the opening of Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery at Weirton Medical Center. Plastic and Recon...
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Weirton Medical Center Named Top Home Health Care Provider
Weirton Medical Center has been named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite™, a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the United States. This...
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WMC Encourages Breast Cancer Screening During October
Weirton Medical Center encourages women over the age of 40 to have a mammogram during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month across the natio...
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Foundation Plans First Charity Golf Tournament
Weirton Medical Center Foundation will hold its first charity golf tournament on Monday, September 21 at Williams Country Club in Weirton. Proceeds fr...
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WMC Receives Top Performer Award
Weirton Medical Center (WMC) has been named a Top Performer and Attainer in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Premier healthcare al...
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Pediatric Speech Therapy Expanded
Parents in Weirton and surrounding communities who have children with speech and swallowing problems now have a local resource for speech therapy serv...
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WMC Launches New Home Draw Service
Pizzas and flowers aren’t the only deliveries made to residents of Weirton and the surrounding area.
The Weirton Medical Center is now offering a ...
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Auxiliary Donates $65,000 to WMC
The Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary presented a check for $65,000 to the Weirton Medical Center on Tuesday, July 21 at the auxiliary’s annual meeting...
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WMC Awarded Gold Seal of Approval
By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission‘s national standards for health care quality and safety, Weirton Medical Center has earned the J...
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WMC Receives Excellence Award
Weirton Medical Center is one of 25 out of 2,100 hospitals nationwide to receive the second annual Supply Chain Excellence Award, presented by the Pre...
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Physicians Achieve Board Certification
Drs. Jorge Roig and Bryan Matusic, Weirton Medical Center anesthesiologists, have successfully passed the American Board of Pain Medicine (ABPM) certi...
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Diabetes in Control Program Merits National Recognition
Weirton Medical Center’s Diabetes in Control program was recently awarded the prestigious American Diabetes Association (ADA) Education Recognition C...
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WMC Announces Addition of New 64-slice CT Scanner
Weirton Medical Center has incorporated one of the most advanced diagnostic tools for helping physicians reach confident diagnoses to provide the best...
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WMC Lab Accredited, Recognized for Excellence
The Weirton Medical Center laboratory has been awarded an accreditation by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Patho...
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WMC Reduces Workforce
Weirton Medical Center announced on Jan. 7 that it has reduced its workforce by approximately 36 full-time equivalent employees. The reduction affecte...
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WMC Auxilian Elected President of West Virginia Hospital Auxiliary
Sondra Weigel, a Weirton resident and past president of the Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary, was elected president of the Auxiliary of the West Virgi...
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WMC Begins Testing Patients for MRSA
Weirton Medical Center has begun a comprehensive program to identify patients who are admitted, discharged or transferred to or from the facility for ...
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WMC Proud to be Tobacco Free
As of November 20, 2009, tobacco use of any kind is prohibited anywhere on the Weirton Medical Center campus and its satellite sites. The ban include...
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Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary Donates $70,000 to Hospital
The Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary has donated $70,000 to the hospital. Auxiliary President Jeannie Duffy and Treasurer Barbara Howell presented Wei...
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Weirton Medical Center Goes WiFi
Free limited Internet access is available to hospital guests in the Weirton Medical Center Atrium Lobby. Anyone with a wireless-enabled device is able...
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Weirton Medical Center Accepts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Weirton Medical Center accepts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western Pennsylvania commercial insurance. Specifically, WMC accepts all patients w...
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Peripheral Nerve Block at WMC Changing Joint Replacement Recovery
If you need a knee or hip replacement, but haven’t gone through with it, what is the one thing holding you back? Most people would answer that questi...
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Weirton Medical Center Diabetes Education Program Merits ADA Recognition
Weirton Medical Center’s Diabetes In-Control Program has been awarded continued Recognition from the American Diabetes Association. Weirton Medical C...
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VNUS Closure Procedure at Weirton Medical Center
Weirton Medical Center is now offering a new solution to leg pain and varicose veins. It’s called "The Closure" procedure.
If you have varicose ...
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