January 26, 2024 – RAHD Receives PPHR Recognition
August 30, 2023 – VDH Reopens Waterway
August 25, 2023 – Swimming Advisory – Aquia Creek
June 29, 2023 – Harmful Algae Bloom – Lake Anna Advisory
April 20, 2023 – RAHD Press Release Naloxone Availability
December 1, 2022 – RAHD Press Release_VoiceText Campaign
February 25, 2022-CVC Central Park Closing
February 9, 2022- Fredericksburg Community Testing Center to Close Operations
November 19, 2021- CVC Holiday Hours and Updates
November 12, 2021- RAHD CVC Update
November 5, 2021- CVC Updates
November 3, 2021- RAHD Offering Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Ages 5-11
October 29, 2021- Community Vaccination Clinic (CVC) Updates
October 19, 2021- RAHD and MWHC Launch Community Health Assessment Process
October 14, 2021- Community Vaccination Center in Fredericksburg
July 8, 2021- Statement Regarding Death of a Child Due to COVID-19
June 29, 2021- RAHD Press Release_Back to School Vaccines
April 7, 2021- RAHD Press Release_ RAHD Moves to Phase 2
March 29, 2021- RAHD Press Release- RAHD urges precautions due to increasing cases
March 24, 2021- RAHD Press Release- RAHD Moves to Phase 1c
January 15, 2021- RAHD Press Release RAHD Moves to Phase 1b
January 5, 2021- RAHD Press Release: Vaccinating Healthcare Workers
November 17, 2020- RAHD Press Release Thanksgiving 2020
October 23, 2020- RAHD Receives Mini-grant for Mass Vaccination
October 21, 2020- RAHD Press Release Flu Clinic-10-27-20
October 14, 2020- Press Release: RAHD Press Release Flu Clinic-10-14-20
October 5, 2020- Press Release: RAHD Community Testing October 2020
October 2, 2020- Press Release: RAHD Offers Free Flu Vaccinations
September 3, 2020- Press Release: MWHC Partners with RAHD to Expand Free COVID-19 Testing
July 29, 2020- Press Release: RAHD Interim Director Returns to Retirement; New Interim Director Announced
July 23, 2020- Press Release: Rappahannock Area Health District Encourages Back to School Immunizations
July 10, 2020- Press Release: First Case of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Reported in Rappahannock Area Health District
July 2, 2020- Press Release: Free COVID-19 Community Testing Event in Stafford County on July 7, 2020
June 26, 2020- Press Release: COVID-19 Community Testing Event in Fredericksburg on June 30, 2020
June 17, 2020- Press Release: Free Community Testing Event in Caroline County on June 19th
May 18, 2020- Press Release: Clinical Impacts at the Rappahannock Area Health District as Staff Member Tests Positive for COVID-19
April 5, 2020- Press Release: Rappahannock Area Health District Confirms its Second COVID-19 Related Death
April 1, 2020- Press Release: Rappahannock Area Health District Confirms its First COVID-19 Associated Death
February 27, 2020- RAHD COVID-19 Letter
January 31, 2020- Novel Coronavirus Letter to Community Partners and RAHD Staff
January 28, 2020- Letter to Community Partners Regarding the Novel Coronavirus
January 14, 2020
Joe and Mary Wilson Community Benefit Fund of the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to the Rappahannock Area Health District
(Fredericksburg, Va.)— In January 2020, the Joe and Mary Wilson Community Benefit Fund of the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation awarded the Rappahannock Area Health District (RAHD) a $100,000 grant for its Complicated Obstetrical and High-Risk Maternity Care Program.
RAHD operates a large maternity program that provides outpatient prenatal care to hundreds of uninsured or underinsured pregnant women from all five of RAHD’s localities (City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania and Stafford). Many of these patients have medical, obstetrical or other conditions that make their pregnancies more complex or high-risk. The grant funding helps to provide more intensive case management to reduce infant and maternal fatalities, preventable emergency department visits and hospitalizations, premature births and low birth weight births.
According to RAHD Health Director Dr. Brooke Rossheim, “We are quite appreciative of this grant award from the Joe and Mary Wilson Community Benefit Fund of the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation. This will help support RAHD’s Maternity Program. The program, which began in 2009, treats a large number of high-risk patients, and this funding helps ensure these women receive the care they need. For years, the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation and Mary Washington Healthcare have been dedicated partners with the Rappahannock Area Health District to serve patients in need of these services.”
The grant award provides funding for the obstetrical clinicians who staff the Maternity Program that serves residents of the City of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George and Caroline Counties.
For more information about the many programs the health district offers, visit www.vdh.virginia.gov/rappahannock/.
2019
- Child Passenger Safety
- National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM)
- World Refugee Day
- The Benefits of Handwashing
- Maternity Grant Press Release – 2/4/19
- Every Woman’s Life Program Grant Award – Press Release 1/24/19
2018
- During & After Storm Health Tips
- Harmful Algae Bloom Lake Anna – UPDATE – 8/24/18
- Harmful Algae Bloom in Lake Anna – 8/18/18
2017
- Maternity Grant Press Release – 1/30/2017
- Fredericksburg, VA: What would improve your health and quality of life in Fredericksburg? That’s what a new survey aims to find out. Take a short online survey to give your input on health needs and issues in the community. The anonymous survey should only take 5 to 10 minutes and is available at https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/rappahannock/cha-survey/.