
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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According to secret shopper survey results, the companies contracted to facilitate care to pregnant enrollees are not delivering.
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More than 30% of Virginia counties are maternity care deserts. That means they have no nearby hospitals or providers who deliver babies. WMRA’s Henry Brannan looks at one maternity care desert in the Shenandoah Valley and the impact that lack of access has on pregnant people there.
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The funding is enough to cover about half the state-funded jobs for two years.
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Remote Area Medical (RAM) provides essential care at a time of increased need, offering free dental, vision and primary care, in addition to vaccinations, opioid reversal trainings and other services.
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Last month, about one in four Virginia hospitals that reported data to Health and Human Services were in a critical staffing shortage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Staunton school teaches everything from job skills to independent living.
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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.