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Interim VP of Carilion Mental Health becomes permanent
Lisa Sprinkel is also VP of home care, hospice department
Carilion Clinic has named Lisa Sprinkel its permanent vice president of Carilion Mental Health, adding to her duties as vice president of Carilion Clinic Home Health and Hospice department. With
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Nation’s first Goodwill-owned supermarket to open in NW Roanoke
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Roanoke-based Goodwill Industries of the Valleys broke ground Nov. 14 on Melrose Plaza, a community hub that will be anchored by the nation’s first full-scale, full-service grocery store owned and
Friendship retirement community acquires Richfield Living
Acquisition merges two Roanoke-area not-for-profit senior living companies
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Friendship, a Roanoke-area retirement community, announced Monday that it has acquired Richfield Living, a former competitor in the region, for $62 million. Friendship announced the acquisition Monday. The combined not-for-profit
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VTCSOM seeks to create neurosurgery department
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Administrators at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are working toward establishing a department of neurosurgery, a step up from its smaller program. The State Council of Higher Education
Wells Fargo to launch $87M expansion in Roanoke County
Bank will add 1,100 customer service center jobs
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San Francisco-based Wells Fargo will spend $87 million to modernize and expand its Roanoke County customer support center, adding 1,100 jobs in a deal that will make the bank the
Virginia Tech research institute receives $50M gift
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute to hire 14 researchers for cancer, neuroscience projects
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A foundation established by the estate of Richmond philanthropist Bill Goodwin‘s late son, Hunter, has made a $50 million commitment to support cancer and neuroscience research at the Fralin Biomedical
Finance | Insurance 2023: FRANK LUCIA
PRESIDENT AND CEO, CORVESTA AND DELTA DENTAL OF VIRGINIA, ROANOKE
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Since 2017, Lucia has led Delta Dental of Virginia, one of the state’s largest dental benefits carriers, with about 350 employees and $766 million in revenue, and its holding company,
Manufacturing 2023: MANMEET S. BHATIA
PRESIDENT AND CEO, TMEIC AMERICAS, ROANOKE
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Bhatia joined Japanese-owned Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp. (TMEIC) in 2003 as general manager of operations for Toshiba and Mitsubishi’s U.S.-based joint venture with General Electric that ultimately became TMEIC
Law 2023: JOHN P. FISHWICK JR.
ATTORNEY AND OWNER, FISHWICK & ASSOCIATES, ROANOKE
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As founder of Fishwick & Associates, a trial law firm with a focus on personal injury, civil rights and federal criminal law, Fishwick stays busy. He also has a significant
Manufacturing 2023: PRABHAT JAIN
CEO, VIRGINIA TRANSFORMER, ROANOKE
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Jain has been CEO of Virginia Transformer, the continent’s largest U.S.-owned power transformer manufacturer, since 1982, 14 years after he arrived from India, mechanical engineering degree in hand. Over the