Henry Brannan
Rural Health Care ReporterHenry Brannan covers rural health care in the Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville area for WMRA and VPM News. The position is in partnership with Report for America.
Previously, he reported on topics ranging from chronic disease to military recruiting as the Jim Lehrer fellow at PBS NewsHour.
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The number of people experiencing homelessness in the upper Shenandoah Valley increased between 2023 and 2024, according to newly released data. These latest point-in-time results come as home prices and rents skyrocket in the region. -
Staunton-Augusta-Waynesboro Housing hosted a talk last week about the role of a housing approach called Permanent Supportive Housing in ending chronic homelessness in the southern Shenandoah Valley. -
Highland County’s sheriff, a retired corporate lawyer, a teacher-turned-president of the local Chamber of Commerce and five dozen other volunteers spent the past two weekends in a trailer making the Mill Gap Ruritan Club’s famous maple doughnuts. -
The Staunton school teaches everything from job skills to independent living. -
Hours before new regulations were set to take effect on Friday, Virginia’s Medicaid agency halted most parts of new regulations for caregivers it announced last year. -
Families say the regulations make it 'impossible' for them to be reimbursed for the care they provide. -
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Virginia is set to lose about 60 Community Health Workers employed at local health districts by July 1st. WMRA and VPM rural health care reporter Henry Brannon reports. -
As winter arrives in the Shenandoah Valley, people experiencing homelessness are caught between dropping temperatures and soaring housing costs. WMRA's rural health reporter Henry Brannan has more. -
With RSV at a multi-year high in Virginia, and both COVID and flu rates on the rise, the respiratory virus season has arrived.
