Virginia health officials will face a skeptical House Appropriations Committee today over a new analysis that shows $1 billion in savings to the state over nine years from expanding its Medicaid program. … The analysis also assumes much greater savings in state funds to compensate Virginia hospitals, especially Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and the University of Virginia Health System, for providing care to uninsured people and those currently covered by Medicaid. The estimated savings would rise from about $637 million to about $1.1 billion through 2022. VCU and U.Va. ...
New population estimates for Virginia were released Tuesday by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and they show that in the last three years, while Virginia’s population rose 3.2 percent, Northern Virginia’s population nearly doubled that: a 6.1 percent increase as of July 1, 2013.
There is a certain predictability to the annual story about college endowments. Harvard University has the biggest in the country, $32.33 billion. The University of Texas system has the biggest among public systems, $20.45 billion. The University of Virginia has the biggest among schools in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia — $5.17 billion. Those are among figures for the 2013 endowment ranking made public Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute.
In 2012, Virginia couldn’t crack the Baseball America preseason poll. The Cavaliers finished No. 25. In 2013, UVa, again, was a no-show in Baseball America’s initial rankings. It finished No. 11. Monday morning, the respected national publication released its first poll of 2014. This time, it made sure the Wahoos wouldn’t exceed its expectations. Virginia is No. 1.
Companies, like SunTrust, are making these changes to control future costs, said Dr. Thomas A. Massaro, a pediatrician and professor at University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “The (health care expense) vector is going in one direction. We could argue about the slope, but it is going up.”
In a variety of experiments, Dr. Hambrick and Timothy A. Salthouse of the University of Virginia have shown that crystallized knowledge (as measured by New York Times crosswords, for example) climbs sharply between ages 20 and 50 and then plateaus, even as the fluid kind (like analytical reasoning) is dropping steadily — by more than 50 percent between ages 20 and 70 in some studies. “To know for sure whether the one affects the other, ideally we’d need to see it in human studies over time,” Dr. Hambrick said.
In its annual list of the 150 Best Value Colleges, the company's message to parents is simple: Tell your kids to study hard, because a strong academic record – not a family's take-home pay – should drive a student's decision about where to apply.
Despite those weaknesses, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato has Walker as the top potential 2016 Republican contender in his closely followed Crystal Ball website. "Walker has a lot to prove, but he looks good on paper," said Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik. "There are a lot of questions about how he will perform as a national candidate."
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said it was “very shrewd” to have the nuns send their objections only to the administration and not to the insurer. “Sending it to the government does not act as an instruction to the insurer,” he said. The order, Laycock said, is a “big but very temporary win for the religious organizations.”
Republican leaders in the House of Delegates want to wait two years for the results of an audit of Virginia’s Medicaid program before deciding whether to extend coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians. But Virginia hospitals face a different deadline in mid-2016 – a “cliff” that will mean a sharp drop-off in federal support for the care of indigent patients, especially at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and the University of Virginia Health System
Patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital got a special visit from some athletes Monday. Members of the UVA women's basketball team stopped by to deliver some smiles.
(Audio to be posted at approximately 12:30 p.m.) The White House released a report last week on the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. Obama announced a task force to help colleges and universities prevent and respond to rape and assault on campuses. Guests include U.Va. law professor Anne Coughlin.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that couples who spend uninterrupted time together at least once a week have better communication, higher sexual satisfaction, and stronger feelings of commitment than couples who don’t.
If he was still around, Robert 'Rivets' Miller would no doubt be sitting in his favorite chair on Sunday right in front of a television in his Michigan home watching the Super Bowl. After all, what else would expect a three-time NFL champion to do on the biggest football day of the year?
Steven DeKosky, a professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, wrote in an accompanying editorial that today’s study provides a “wake-up call” to look at environmental factors for Alzheimer’s disease and points researchers toward pesticides as a first area to assess. “We have spent so much time looking for the genetic underpinnings of the disease. Now it’s time to start looking harder at the environment,” he said in a telephone interview. “We are exploring a lot of ways that the environment may predispose us to or protect us from neurode...
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has donated her mother's nursing cape to the university's nursing school.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said the endorsement should give Mark Warner a boost among middle-of-the-road voters who have been abandoned the GOP. “The premier effect will be a television ad that will underline Mark Warner’s broad appeal, at least to moderate Republicans. How many of those are left, I can’t tell you,” Sabato said. “The Republicans have lost not only moderates, but also a lot of moderate conservatives.”
(Commentary) Nevertheless, political analysts say, one rotten apple — or even the scores of them picked up in the past two decades — does not spoil the barrel. “I’ve studied American political corruption throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and, if anything, corruption was much more common in much of those centuries than today,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(Audio) Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia, explores the latest developments in the search for dark matter in the Universe, a new supernova, and a “big” Mercury coming soon to a night sky near you.