Yiqing Wang
Health ReporterYiqing is WHRO News' health reporter. Before joining WHRO, she was a science reporter at The Cancer Letter, a weekly publication in Washington, D.C., focused on oncology. Yiqing graduated from Northwestern University and Bryn Mawr College. She speaks Mandarin and French. Yiqing can be reached out at 443-494-6627 or yiqing.wang@whro.org.
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Five years after federal hospital price transparency rules took effect, a new report says some Hampton Roads hospitals still publish negotiated rates in formulas that are difficult for users to calculate. -
Health care workforce leaders say some of the region’s smaller staffing gaps can be just as disruptive as lacking nurses or doctors. -
Residents and advocates say staffing shortages can mean delayed medication, missed meals and long waits for help. Meanwhile, the state has a massive inspections backlog it won't clear until the end of next year at the earliest. -
A new Virginia grant program will give nursing students more opportunities to earn wages while gaining hands-on clinical experience, part of a broader effort to grow the state’s nursing workforce. -
The city has expanded mosquito treatment and surveillance. Officials say the local increase does not necessarily mean more people will become sick. -
Three local nurses recorded 1,637 patient contacts in 2025 alongside TRICARE and other military parenting programs. -
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center is closer to resolving its federal criminal case tied to former OB-GYN Javaid Perwaiz. But in state court, former patients are still pressing for answers. -
More than a dozen Bayview patients have contacted WHRO with concerns about a Medicare care-management program, including questions about what services they receive for the monthly charge. -
If no agreement is reached, some patients could face changes in where they can receive care starting next year. -
Patients say leaving the care-management program could mean finding a new primary care physician after years of treatment with the same doctor.
