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WEIRTON Firefighters from up and down the Ohio Valley, along with police officers and other emergency responders came together with the friends and family of Brian Ritchie Wednesday night to remember the life of a man who dedicated himself to helping others.
Fire trucks lined Municipal Plaza in the city’s downtown, while a crowd gathered for a candlelight memorial. Ritchie, who was a 13-year member of the Weirton Fire Department, holding the rank of lieutenant, as well as an assistant chief with the Hooverson Heights Volunteer Fire Department, died Tuesday following a lengthy battle with COVID-19 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.
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MEMORIAL Area emergency responders, family and friends gathered in Weirton’s Municipal Plaza Wednesday night for a candlelight memorial in tribute to the life of Brian Ritchie, a lieutenant with the Weirton Fire Department and assistant chief with the Hooverson Heights Volunteer Fire Department, who died Tuesday following a battle with COVID-19. Craig Howell
WEIRTON – Firefighters from up and down the Ohio Valley, along with police officers and other emergency responders came together with the friends and family of Brian Ritchie Wednesday night to remember the life of a man who dedicated himself to helping others.
Fire trucks lined Municipal Plaza in the city’s downtown, while a crowd gathered for a candlelight memorial. Ritchie, who was a 13-year member of the Weirton Fire Department, holding the rank of lieutenant, as well as an assistant chief with the Hooverson Heights Volunteer Fire Department, died Tuesday following a lengthy battle with COVID-19
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MEMORIAL â Area emergency responders, family and friends gathered in Weirtonâs Municipal Plaza Wednesday night for a candlelight memorial in tribute to the life of Brian Ritchie, a lieutenant with the Weirton Fire Department and assistant chief with the Hooverson Heights Volunteer Fire Department, who died Tuesday following a battle with COVID-19. Craig Howell
WEIRTON Firefighters from up and down the Ohio Valley, along with police officers and other emergency responders came together with the friends and family of Brian Ritchie Wednesday night to remember the life of a man who dedicated himself to helping others.
Fire trucks lined Municipal Plaza in the city’s downtown, while a crowd gathered for a candlelight memorial. Ritchie, who was a 13-year member of the Weirton Fire Department, holding the rank of lieutenant, as well as an assistant chief with the Hooverson Heights Volunteer Fire Department, died Tuesday following a lengthy battle with COVID-
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NEW ADDITION â Tim Buchmelter of Hooverson Heights stood before an automated contactless fever-detecting camera before entering the Brooke County Courthouse on Tuesday. The device has been added to deter the spread of COVID-19.
WELLSBURG On Tuesday the Brooke County Commission learned of efforts to aid three local firefighters and noted they have installed a new tool aimed at deterring spread of the coronavirus.
Christina White, director of the county’s 911 center, announced a prayer vigil for Brian Ritchie, a paid firefighter with the city of Weirton and volunteer firefighter for the Hooverson Heights department, will be held at 6:30 p.m. today at Edwin J. Bowman Field by the Weirton Municipal Plaza.
Originally published on January 28, 2021 1:49 pm
There are several factors behind the financial struggles rural hospitals face right now, according to Harold Miller, CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. They include increased costs to fight the pandemic, decreased money coming in from patients who are putting off doctor visits, and small hospitals that earn less per patient from private insurers than their urban counterparts,
“Most rural hospitals, even if they’re making profits, are making very small profits and typically do not have significant reserves in place,” Miller says. “And the hospitals that we’ve identified as being at risk, are ones that have been losing money for several years.”