VHCF recognizes the uninsured
The Virginia Health Care Foundation, founded in 1992 to ensure access to medical services for uninsured Virginians, is holding a "National Week of the Uninsured," which will last until next Monday, March 17.
"The event has been designed to alert people across the country to the massive numbers of Americans who are without basic health insurance," a VHCF press release said.
According to VHCF statistics, over one million Virginians now are uninsured, with the largest increase of uninsured coming in the form of those employed full-time. That group amounts to 14.9 percent of all Virginians. One in five Virginians between the ages of 18 and 44 does not have health insurance.
The VHCF attributes the growing number of uninsured Virginians to a faltering economy, the rising cost of premiums, and the decisions by many employers to drop coverage for their workers.
"If not for the VHCF and its more than 1,200 partner organizations, the situation in Virginia would be catastrophic," said VHCF Chairman Clarion Johnson in a press release.
"Homelands and Memory" in Campbell Hall's Elmaleh Gallery
For the second year in a row, the University of Virginia's chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students will host an exhibition, entitled "Homelands and Memory" in Campbell Hall's Elmaleh Gallery.
The exhibition runs until March 21. The opening reception took place last night.
Homelands and Memory highlights the work of students, alumni and professors of the University. Participants were asked to consider the idea of "Homeland" in a variety of contexts, ranging from the meaning of the word to how ancestral homelands define who they are as individuals.
The artwork presented is representative of a variety of media forms, including film, painting, drawing and music.
"Every person has a story. The purpose of the exhibition is to create a forum for the sharing of different perspectives," a NOMAS press release said.
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