On the Senate side, Sen. William M. Stanley Jr., R-Franklin, is trying to introduce a half-dozen bills to address various aspects of the health system -- accountable care organizations, tax credits for hospitals that lose Medicare reimbursements, a medical home advisory council, private health exchanges, a pilot program for telemedicine, and broadening use of medical school grants beyond VCU, the University of Virginia, and Eastern Virginia Medical School.His proposals are aimed at substituting for Medicaid expansion to provide health care more efficiently for poor people in rural Virgin...
... Estimates for this year indicate that at least 11,304 man-hours of work were done during the day by 1,884 volunteers from more than 60 businesses working on 193 projects for 101 agencies.Charity officials said the University of Virginia and UVa Health Systems alone provide almost nearly half of the volunteers.Lisa Brown, of the UVa Endoscopy Unit, gathered family to help with unit volunteers, including husband Greg Brown and relatives Gary and Ben Shifflett.Along with Dr. Jeanetta Frye and Jeff Frye, Rene Rader and Jackie Holiday, the crew was planning on painting at Camp Holiday Tra...
One of the biggest employers in the Charlottesville area is the University of Virginia and Wednesday, as is the case every year during the United Way’s Day of Caring, orange shirts were out and about in the community lending a lot of elbow grease. "I love the sound of saws and hammers and people pulling weeds and just seeing this work get done,” said Camp Holiday Trails Executive Director Tina LaRoche. “It's actually really energizing!" LaRoche said the camp and UVa. have a nice, long history when it comes to the United Way's annual volunteer event.
Graham's close friends say her disappearance just 'doesn't feel real'.
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Several University of Virginia students we spoke to say they plan to be even more vigilant and aware because of the disappearance of fellow student Hannah Graham.
The University of Virginia is emphasizing the counseling available to any student having a tough time dealing with Hannah Graham's disappearance.University Dean of Students Allen Groves sent out a letter Monday night to parents and students about resources and safety. The office of the dean of students wants to assist students as much as possible. Its main office is in Peabody Hall and the professional housing and residence life staff can be found in the Kent-Dabney dorms.The Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) department in Student Health also has clinicians available 24 hours a ...
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy became emotional on Wednesday as he reported on the latest developments in their search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. (Reuters)
Police investigating the disappearance of a University of Virginia student have focused their search in an area of downtown Charlottesville where she was last seen on surveillance video walking alone in the early morning hours Saturday. ... At one point, video shows Graham walking near railroad tracks that cut through Charlottesville. Norfolk Southern spokesman Robin Chapman said the rail line owns the tracks and that between 20 and 25 trains, including four Amtrak trains, use the line in a 24-hour period. ...
The parents of a missing University of Virginia student said Wednesday they fear she is the victim of "foul play," and police released two new surveillance videos showing the 18-year-old walking past a pub and, minutes later, running past a service station.Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said the videos have been extremely helpful as investigators try to piece together what happened to Hannah E. Graham early Saturday morning but said police still need to hear from anyone who might have any information about Graham, no matter how insignificant it might seem.
A male seen in a video following a missing University of Virginia student on the Downtown Mall early Saturday told police late Wednesday that Hannah Graham "looked to be somewhat physically distressed" and that he wanted to make sure she was safe. He also told police that he saw another male speak with Graham.The male in the video, who is white, came to the police department at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, the agency said in a news release. In addition to describing his own actions, he told officers that soon after he followed Graham a black male came up to her and put his arm around ...
Thoughts of bucket lists come easily at the moment; her new movie, after all, focuses on a family struggling to cope with the death of its patriarch.Based on the 2009 novel by Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You will open nationwide on Friday, with Fey headlining an all-star cast. The plot centers on four grown siblings, each with his or her own regrets and resentments, who return to their childhood home for seven days to mourn their father.Sitting for an interview during the Toronto International Film Festival, Fey called the movie “ an emotional comedy.”
The University of Virginia's Paul Lombardo notes that U.S. eugenicists like Harry Laughlin targeted people who were "feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent." Laughlin warned of "defective persons" whose ability to reproduce posed "a menace to society." You know who else thought this way? The Nazis. Laws based on Laughlin's models were later enacted in Hitler's Germany, which gave him an award for the "science of racial cleansing" in 1936. The German program eventuall...
The battle over guns is like so many others in the campaign so far, said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "These ads are going to appeal to partisans," he said, saying that he doubts either will make much difference in the election.
“The key decision is whether he runs as a Democrat, an Independent or both — leaving the party primaries at some point to strike out on his own,” Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, told The Fiscal Times. “He may keep her further to the left that she’d like in the primaries, and then again in the general election.”
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, believes the beneficial outcomes associated with marriage do actually result from marriage.In a blog for the Institute for Family Studies, he wrote, "The new progressive line on marriage fails to appreciate three truths about contemporary family life and public policy. ...