eviction cases during the past year. The additional Carilion Clinic President resources will allow The and CEO Nancy Howell Legal Aid Society to hire Agee is among the additional staff to assist 2022 class of Modern more families that are Healthcare’s 50 Most desperately in need of Influential Clinical legal help to avoid Executives. This award homelessness. The grant program honors individuals will also be utilized to in healthcare who are educate both landlords deemed by their peers and tenants about their and the magazine’s senior rights and responsibilities editors to be paving in hopes of reducing the the way to better health number of unlawful through their executive evictions in and around responsibility, leadership the Roanoke Valley. qualities, innovation, ____________________ community service and achievements inside and High marks for outside of their respective local credit union organizations. Agee was recognized for her lifelong Member One Federal dedication to healthcare, Credit Union is one the beginning as a nurse in best credit unions in 1973 and rising as an Virginia, according to industry thought leader Forbes. The Credit Union throughout her nearly was among five in Virginia 50-year career. named to the America’s ____________________ Best Credit Unions In Each State list. This New Cook Out location year also marks the third consecutive year Member Cook Out has purchased One has been named to the 2,088 square foot this list. “Just over 3% retail building that used of all credit unions to house Long John nationwide are recognized Silvers on Franklin Road by Forbes, so to receive in Roanoke for almost this prestigious designation $600,000. This will be the just once is incredible. second Roanoke location To receive it three years for the chain (burgers, in a row is truly humbling,” hot dogs, chicken etc.) said Lori Cauley, Member when it opens. One’s Chief Brand & ____________________ Experience Officer. 2022 marks the fifth time that Major grant focused Forbes has worked with on fighting evictions market research firm Statista to name the BestThe William R. Kenan, In-State Credit Unions. Jr. Charitable Trust has ____________________ awarded $400,000 to the Legal Aid Society of RBTC alums Roanoke Virginia to help get grant funding provide legal assistance to low-income tenants RAMP alumni companies facing evictions and – and RBTC members homelessness in the – have received grant Roanoke Valley and funding from the Virginia surrounding areas. The Innovation Partnership Legal Aid Society has Corporation (VIPC). seen a 70% increase in Each company that went Honors for Agee
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through the high-tech business incubator program received a $75,000 award to support their commitment to innovation and their high potential for economic development and job creation. VIPC awarded funding through the Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) was launched in 2020 to foster innovative and collaborative efforts in Virginia. Recipients include ArchiveCore INC, Chorda Pharma, Corvus Labs, Cyto Recovery and Ticket Spicket. ____________________ RoCo in good shape Roanoke County has been recognized as No. 133 in the country by U.S. News & World Report in their 2022 Healthiest Communities ranking. Roanoke County ranked 24 points higher than communities across Virginia and 14 points higher than national average. Healthiest Communities is an interactive platform developed by U.S. News & World Report, in collaboration with CVS Health. Roanoke County’s rankings include better than average scores in the categories of population health, equity, education, economy, and infrastructure. In 2021, The county was ranked No. 196 out of the top 500 Urban, High-Performing communities. ____________________ Game changer for those with sleep apnea? A new treatment option for those with sleep apnea announced by LewisGale Medical Center last fall after five years of clinical trials is taking root in
Salem. And there are no facemasks involved. Dr Brian Gross, a head and neck surgeon at LewisGale Medical Center in Salem, has worked with a Sleep medicine team at the hospital to introduce a new technology called Inspire over the past six months. It can treat those suffering from obstructive sleep apnea - without resorting to the CPAP positive air pressure masks – which he calls the “gold standard,” that Dr. Gross says some apnea sufferers just cannot tolerate: “half the people are not getting adequate treatment with positive pressure ventilation. That’s 50 percent of the people that could [still] be treated … in a safe, effective way.” The Inspire method involves several sensors placed underneath the patient's skin - including one on the muscle that controls the tongue. Mild stimulation keeps the airway open during sleep; the patient can turn off the system when they wake up. “At night when you breathe in, it will activate and open the throat up to actually remove the obstruction.” Untreated sleep apnea can be much more than just heavy snoring – untreated it can lead to fatigue that causes accidents, impacts on a person's mood and memory, even death if the flow of oxygen to the brain because of an obstructed airway. Gross calls Inspire a "game changer." ____________________ More broadband in Craig County As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in at-home
