Charity gala in West Virginia raises more than $30,000 for cardiac care

A charity gala on April 8 raised more than $30,000 for local cardiac care services in West Virginia, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reports.

The West Virginia University Medicine Camden Clark Foundation organized the gala, which featured more than 200 attendees at the Parkersburg Country Club.

The newspaper reported that West Virginia University Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center plans on beginning construction in June on a three-story, 40,000-square foot heart and vascular institute.

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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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