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News in Brief: Laboratory recognized for quality
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio -- Valley Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. has met all the criteria for Laboratory Accreditation by COLA, a national healthcare accreditation organization.
VDL has been presented with its third "Laboratory Excellence Award" wall plaque. The award is only presented to those labs that receive a 100 percent error free federal survey.
VDL is located at 1504 Jackson Pike. For more information, call 740-446-0353.
FiberNet joins Cisco Powered Program
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- On Nov. 19, Cisco named FiberNet as a member of the Cisco® Powered Program, which for more than 10 years has been Cisco's premier partnering vehicle for solutions providers of technology as a service.
FiberNet, a One Communications company, is a regional telecommunications provider offering services in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio.
W.Va.'s Mountaineer Casino lays off 93
CHESTER, W.Va. -- Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort announced Friday it is laying off 93 workers, or 4 percent of its work force.
That will leave MTR Gaming Group Inc. with 2,076 employees at its Northern Panhandle casino, said track spokeswoman Tamara Pettit. The cuts affect "nonessential personnel" like maintenance workers and carpenters.
MTR had raised the prospect of layoffs last month during a conference call on its third-quarter financial performance, which included a double-digit gain in overall revenues but a loss of $8.2 million.
