By ROBERT A. DEFRANK WHEELING — Sheila Archer, director of rehabilitation services at WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital and a speech-language pathologist, lives by the message of patience, hard work and community. Archer describes herself as an “empty nester” as of this year and ...
By DEREK REDD WHEELING — Emergency medicine is a high-stakes, high-intensity field in which seconds can be crucial to a patient’s outcome. Dr. Raina Burke of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital has been in love with the field since medical school and has spent nearly two decades in practice ...
By ERIC AYRES WHEELING — Compassion and a deep-seated drive to help people led to a new chapter in Melissa Fletcher’s life — one that reached a landmark in May of last year when she officially opened Walk of Life Physical Therapy LLC in Wheeling. Specializing in pelvic health, Walk of ...
By EMMA DELK WHEELING — A sports injury in high school turned into a nearly 24-year-long career in pediatric physical therapy for Nikki Kiger. Always harboring an interest in the body, the injury and subsequent physical therapy taught Kiger that she wanted to spend her career “helping ...
By SHELLEY HANSON WHEELING — Jill Spangler, director of Clinical Nutrition for WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial and Wheeling hospitals, enjoys helping others live a more healthy lifestyle via good nutrition and education. Spangler said in her role as director of clinical nutrition she ...
By JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Nicole Buckey Snodgrass started Restore Yoga + Wellness in 2018 for one simple reason — she saw a need in the community and wanted to fill that void for the area. Raised in Flushing and a graduate of Union Local High School, she first became ...
By EMMA DELK WHEELING — After working with countless children as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Jill Bradshaw has taken away an important lesson: There are always things in life that are out of your hands. To help patients and herself grapple with this idea, the Wheeling native uses ...
By DEREK REDD WHEELING — Joelle Moray was rolling along in a strong career in corporate communications, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, she saw things within the corporate world that stirred another of her longtime passions. She watched the people around her — successful, ...
By ERIC AYRES WHEELING — Entrepreneurs daring to open a unique new business can attest to the fact that blazing a trail has its inherent challenges. The owners of ThrIVe in downtown Wheeling know first-hand what it takes to venture down a new path that can be tough to navigate. But ...
By KAILEY CARPINO BARNESVILLE —Kelsay Garvin, a nurse practitioner at WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital, said she would tell others not to become a nurse or nurse practitioner for the money. “This job requires caring and compassion,” she said. “I would also tell them to work hard, be ...
By JOSELYN KING WHEELING — Jessica Rine remembers early in her career walking into a committee meeting ready “to act on what I thought was a really solid idea.” “I presented it to the committee and they kindly, and unanimously, told me why they didn’t think it would work,” she ...
