Health And Fitness

Tip-Offs to Find Rip-Offs

Rachel Wall, Nutrition and Health Specialist, ISU Extension and Outreach By Rachel Wall Every day we hear about a new super­food, the next miracle cure, or a pill that provides overnight weight loss. Health fraud scams have been around for hundreds of years. Man...

Teach Kids to be Food Safe

Rachel Wall, Nutrition and Health Specialist, ISU Extension and Outreach   Rachel Wall   The kitchen is often the first place children go when they get home from school, but it’s not always the safest place.   Millions of chi...

Dental Screening reminder for 9th grader

This is a reminder that all 9th graders are required by the Iowa Department of Public Health to have a Dental Screening.  Please visit your Dentist and have them fill out & sign a Cert...

Early Bird hours: VGH clinic to open at 7 a.m. weekdays beginning May 6

Chelsea Peoples, shown with patient Nikel Dedrick, will begin seeing patients at 7 a.m. on May 6. Chelsea Peoples, PA,  says she enjoyed her work at Virginia Gay Hospital's clinic in Vinton so much as as a PA student that she decided to make Vinton her first career stop. “I l...

VGH Therapy Dept. marks April as OT Month

OT patient Glenna Wilt, shown with Stacey Hodges and Kelly Tilson, recommends the VGH OT Dept. By Molly Holst Kirkwood OTA Student Not only does the month of April signify “April showers,” but it also recognizes National Occupational Therapy Month; however, in the occupat...

Virginia Gay Hospital announces April clinic schedule

Click HERE to see the April outpatient clinic schedule for Virginia Gay Hospital. ...