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Riverside Health System Named 2008 Most Wired Hospital - Patient Satisfaction Higher at Most Wired Hospitals
Riverside Health System has been named to the nation’s Most Wired list for the fourth consecutive year, according to the results of the 2008 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released today in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
(Press Release, 7/15/2008)

Governor Tim Kaine Visits Riverside PACE - Strong words of tribute to Riverside for leading this new concept
Governor Tim Kaine attended a special ceremony at Riverside PACE on May 14, praising Riverside’s leadership in both the development for the PACE program and in statewide leadership for funding new programs in insurance availability for small companies.
(Press Release, 5/23/2008)

Riverside targets oral cancer - The health system seeks to raise awareness that the illness has been linked to a sexually transmitted disease
Oral cancer rates are going up, even though tobacco use is down. And new studies link oral cancer to a strain of the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease better known as HPV.
(Daily Press, 5/22/2008)

Pilot program could help uninsured - The Riverside Foundation donated $1 million
One million Virginians — 15 percent of the state's population — don't have health insurance. A proposed pilot program funded partly by a Riverside Foundation donation will attempt to insure the uninsured in Hampton Roads.
(Daily Press, 4/15/2008)

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Two more Riverside patients test positive for hepatitis C - The medical center is still trying to reach 23 people to schedule screenings.
(Daily Press, 4/8/2008)

One Riverside patient tests positive for hepatitis C
(Daily Press, 4/2/2008)

First 120 test negative for hepatitis C - Riverside hospital is still trying to reach some people who might have been infected by a former employee.
(Daily Press, 4/1/2008)

Riverside making progress on hepatitis screenings - Eighty have had the blood test, but the hospital needs to reach another 160 former patients.
(Daily Press, 3/29/2008)

Another try for new hospital - Riverside's first two proposals for Doctor's Hospital were rejected by the state.
(Daily Press, 3/29/2008)

Riverside Medical Group Receives National Preeminence Award
(Press Release, 3/19/2008)

Riverside StatMD and Dr. John Janousek now providing walk-in care at Hayes Medical Center
(Press Release, 2/4/2008)

Riverside Recognized For Exemplary Efforts To Serve The Community - Selected as Finalist for the 2007 Foster G. McGaw Prize
(Press Release, 1/10/2008)

Riverside Medical Group and Warwick Forest Retirement Community Recognized as an Employer of Choice
(Press Release, 12/21/2007)

Riverside Medical Group Physicians Earn Elite Heart/Stroke Recognition - Twenty-six of Twenty-seven Physicians Recognized in the Commonwealth of Virginia are Riverside Medical Group Physicians
(Press Release, 12/17/2007)

Riverside Regional Medical Center Receives 2007 Hospital of Choice Award - Only hospital in Virginia to receive award
(Press Release, 10/12/2007)

Riverside Diagnostic Center - Oyster Point Named Among Top in Nation
(Press Release, 10/5/2007)