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Fake Virgin Islands Hospital set up to lure online victims

By ALDETH LEWIN ST. THOMAS – Virgin Islanders know that no United States Virgin Islands Hospital is located in the territory, but the rest of the world could be duped by the fake hospital’s website. The V.I. Department of Licensing […]

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St. Thomas Dentist Earns Prestigious Award

By Denise Clarke A practicing dentist in the BVI, Dr. Trevor Connor, has received another prestigious accreditation in his profession. Dr. Connor has earned a Diplomate status within the

AIDS Conference Encourages Straight Talk

By Justin Shatwell “Let’s call a thing a thing.” That was the simple, but poignant, message of Dr. Carline Jean-Gilles, a specialist in treating AIDS, at a daylong

Task force continues health care reform in USVI

ST CROIX, USVI -- The US Virgin Islands’ Healthcare Reform Implementation Task Force recently met at Government House, St Croix, to continue the progress in transforming healthcare in

JFL Moving Patients from Psychiatric Unit to Florida Hospital

By John Baur The board of the Juan F. Luis Memorial Hospital on Thursday approved a $100,000 expenditure to transfer the six patients in its Behavioral Health Unit

CDC: Meningitis-tainted drugs were not sent to Virgin Islands

By JOY BLACKBURN The territory did not receive medications from the potentially contaminated lots linked with a fungal meningitis outbreak in the continental U.S. that has sickened 247

USVI to share health care management system with West Virginia

ST THOMAS, USVI -- Governor John de Jongh has announced a landmark partnership in which the US Virgin Islands will be incorporated into West Virginia's state-of-the-art Medicaid Management

Luis board votes to limit Nelson’s spending power

By JOY BLACKBURN ST. CROIX - The Luis Hospital board on Wednesday reined in the autonomy it had given to the hospital's chief executive to execute contracts. The board

Luis’ new CFO makes $150,000

By JOY BLACKBURN The contract for Luis Hospital's new chief financial officer sets his annual salary at $150,000 and entitles him to "incentive payments" of up to an

More nurses needed, plans for medical school in works for USVI

 By Delana Isles President of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), Dr. David Hall would like to see more people from the British Virgin Islands taking advantage of

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