The COVID-19 is an infectious disease that is caused by a new coronavirus introduced to humans for the first time. The spread of this infectious disease is through through the droplets produced when an infected person speaks, coughs or sneezes. Please take time to read this article from CDC and […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS) welcomes Registered Dietitian, Caitlin Davis. SVCHS is grateful to be the recipient of a gift from the late Tom Merrihue. Mr. Merrihue had a great concern for the health and wellbeing of the residents of Meadowview and surrounding communities. In honor of his gift, […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS) will be promoting National Nutrition Month during March to encourage patients to make informed food choices and develop sound eating and physical activity habits. National Nutrition Month was initiated in 1973 as National Nutrition Week, and it became a month-long observance in 1980 in […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems will be recognizing the month of March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month to help incite awareness of colon cancer, a disease that can be prevented through screening One in 20 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer, and it is the second leading cause of […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems will be recognizing the month of January as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. All throughout the month, patients are encouraged to wear teal to their appointments since teal is the official color of cervical cancer awareness. On Friday, January 17, 2020, SVCHS is dedicating the day […]
New Day Recovery Bristol has been added to our services at Southwest Virginia Community Health Center’s (SVCHS) Twin City Medical Center. New Day Recovery (NDR) is a program of SVCHS that began operations in 2016 in an effort to provide substance use disorder treatment in a primary care office based […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS)’s Tazewell Community Health’s new, state-of-the art, $3.2 million facility just celebrated its one year anniversary of opening. SVCHS officially opened the new facility on Thursday, October 25, 2018 and began seeing patients on November 5, 2018. Ground was broken on the facility a little […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS) welcomes new medical provider, Edgar Camargo, MD, to the Saltville Medical Center to serve as a Primary Care Physician. Dr. Camargo comes to SVCHS with a vast background of experiences to share with his patients. He attended medical school at State University of New […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS)’s Twin City Medical Center hosted the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Mobile Mammogram Coach on Thursday, November 7, 2019 with big improvements from last year. This year, there was a 13% no-show rate in comparison with the 41% from last year. 13 total patients were […]
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems (SVCHS) held multiple donation drives at each site during the month of October in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each site, Meadowview Health Clinic, Saltville Medical Center, T.K. McKee, Tazewell Community Health Center, and Twin City Medical Center, held a scarf and hat drive, […]
