Williamsburg psychiatric facility loses Medicaid funding

Published October 17, 2010

Williamsburg psychiatric facility loses Medicaid funding
RICHMOND(AP) — Virginia must come up with $ 1.14 million to care for patients at a state-run geriatric psychiatric center this month after losing its certification from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The federal agency pulled the Medicaid funding after Eastern State Hospital’s Hancock Geriatric Treatment Center failed to get recertified by Tuesday. The agency decertified the …
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A newsmaker you should know: Glimmer of Hope one woman’s efforts to cure breast cancer
Like many people, Diana Napper has lost someone she loved to breast cancer. But Mrs. Napper used her grief to found a nonprofit in honor of a friend and mentor, Carol Jo Friedman.
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Chongqing Cancer Hospital commences treatment with Varian’s RapidArc radiotherapy
Chongqing Cancer Hospital in Southwest China has become the first treatment center in Southwest China to offer cancer patients a faster, more precise form of image-guided radiotherapy that potentially enables doctors to improve outcomes while extending more advanced care to more patients. Clinicians at the hospital have used RapidArc® radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems to treat patients …
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