Set to launch in the coming weeks, The Drop allows parents who have extra breast milk to share it with parents and babies in need.
Category: Health and safety
These are stories about health care, environmental issues, policing, crime, the stresses of inequities — all the things that make us healthy or unhealthy in expected and unexpected ways.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
When this Charlottesville shelter closes next year, its 100 elderly and seriously ill guests might have nowhere to go
“If it weren’t for Premier Circle, I’d be homeless,” said Sunshades, a shelter guest.
Posted inHealth and safety
Local stores struggle to stock baby formula amid a national shortage, leaving parents to search for formulas that work for their infants
“Breastfeeding is not free,” said Dr. Irène Mathieu, a Charlottesville pediatrician. She said that low-income parents and those who don’t get parental leave or space at work to pump breast milk are having the most difficult time.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
It’s the first year all three Charlottesville city pools will be open since the pandemic began — but a lifeguard shortage is likely to reduce open hours
Vic Garber, deputy director of Parks and Recreation, says he hasn’t seen a staff shortage this severe in his 10 years at the department.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down
Farmville earns $15,000 and the private company that operates the center earns $2 million per month from the federal government, even though they had a huge COVID-19 outbreak and detainees say that conditions there have been unbearable.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Charlottesville-area abortion providers brace for onslaught of out-of-state patients should Roe be overturned
Virginia legislators prepare to battle over abortion rights.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
You had questions about trees in Charlottesville. We got some answers.
Here are the answers to five of the most common questions we got about our reporting on the city’s declining tree canopy.
Posted inHealth and safety
We’re at the start of another COVID-19 surge — but this time, health officials expect hospitalizations will be low
“I’d like to say that, along with this lovely spring that we are having, this is part of a new beginning. But, we have been fooled before so we’ll just have to wait and see,” said Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer.
Posted inHealth and safety
What does the Black birth experience in Charlottesville look like? A new photo series shows how powerful it can be.
For many, having a “birth sister” can make a big difference for their health and well-being while pregnant and giving birth.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Charlottesville’s tree cover has dropped about 15% since 2004 — but there are ways to bring it back
“I think the idea of having places to gather and green spaces with trees will be good for me and my neighbors,” said South First Street resident Estephany Kepchar.
