The Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) has been chosen to receive a 1.9-million-dollar gift from Yield Giving, a charitable organization focused on providing resources to proven non-profits to use to benefit others. “This is among the largest gifts ever received by the Community Health Center and is life-changing,” Michelle Brauns, MS,… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, during National Recovery Month, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mike Braun (R-IN), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Providing Empathetic and Effective Recovery (PEER) Support Act, legislation to help peer support specialists serving individuals recovering from a mental health condition or substance use disorder. Specifically,… Continue Reading
The Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) was recognized with five awards by The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), including the Gold Leader in Health Center Quality status which recognizes CHCNRV clinical quality efforts as being in the top ten percent of Federally Qualified Health Centers and look-alike entities. The awards, which are based… Continue Reading
The Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) welcomes Megan Riggs as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in the Christiansburg office. Riggs recently completed her FNP degree at Radford University Carilion but has been a Registered Nurse in the New River Valley since 2013, working in primary care, occupational health, home health, and… Continue Reading
Dr. Sara Chehreh has joined The Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) and will see patients in the Christiansburg office. Dr. Chehreh is a graduate of Midwestern University’s College of Dental Medicine in Illinois. Before attending Midwestern, she received her B.S. in biology from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and a Master… Continue Reading
The Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is pleased to announce that Dr. S. Alexander Wood will join our staff in our Dublin office as Lead Dentist. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Wood will also oversee our groundbreaking new dental residency program. Dr. Wood earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree… Continue Reading
The grants represent the first time funding has been directed to community entities to build residency programs, which have traditionally been located in hospitals. The new program’s focus is two-fold: to support and train community-based providers in their own environment, and to create a stronger health care workforce. The Community Health Center of the New… Continue Reading
