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e-WV Department of Health and Human Resources

WEBThe West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) was a cabinet-level department of state government, responsible for the state’s health and welfare …

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e-WV West Virginia University Medicine

WEBRuby Memorial, which opened in 1988, is a 690-bed hospital named in honor of Hazel Ruby McQuain and J. W. Ruby. The facility includes a day surgery center, …

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e-WV CAMC (Vandalia Health)

WEBCharleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) is a large and complex health care center, originally formed by combining seven predecessor hospitals.After its 2022 merger with …

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e-WV Public Health

WEBThe State Board of Health was established by the West Virginia legislature in 1881, with an annual budget of $1,000. By 1890, local health boards had been …

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e-WV Ohio Valley Medical Center

WEBOhio Valley Medical Center. Ohio Valley Medical Center was a 200-bed hospital in downtown Wheeling. It began as City Hospital on January 1, 1890, following an initiative …

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e-WV St. Mary’s Medical Center

WEBSt. Mary’s Hospital, now St. Mary’s Medical Center, in Huntington, was opened November 6, 1924, by eight Pallottine Missionary Sisters.The founding sisters …

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e-WV West Virginia State Medical Association

WEBThe West Virginia State Medical Association was established in 1867 as the Medical Society of West Virginia by Dr. James Edmund Reeves and colleagues. Reeves …

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e-WV Appalachian Regional Hospitals

WEBThe board formed a nonprofit corporation, Appalachian Regional Hospitals ( ARH ), and bought the hospitals for $8 million using state and federal funds. In the …

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e-WV Hopemont Sanitarium (now Hospital)

WEBHopemont Sanitarium (now Hospital) Hopemont, West Virginia’s first tuberculosis sanitarium, met a pressing public health need, because in the early 20th …

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e-WV Miners Health Plan

WEBThis fund was to provide cradle-to-grave health care for miners and their families. The Funds eventually built 10 hospitals in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia, greatly …

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e-WV Key Dates for Department of Health and Human Resources

WEBOct 14, 2022. Legislative leaders formally contacted the governor over allegations of abuse and neglect of vulnerable residents at state-operated facilities. Mar …

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e-WV Black Lung Movement

WEBOn February 18, 282 miners at a Raleigh County mine went on strike over the black lung issue, and within a few days the walkout spread throughout southern …

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e-WV Mildred Mitchell-Bateman

WEBPhysician Mildred Mitchell-Bateman (March 22, 1922-January 25, 2012) was born in Georgia. She became the first Black woman in West Virginia to hold a high-level …

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e-WV Huntington State Hospital

WEBLocated on the eastern edge of the city, the hospital fronts on Norway Avenue. In 1901, the name was changed to the West Virginia Asylum, and the patient census was 150. The …

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e-WV Weston State Hospital

WEBThe Weston State Hospital housed West Virginians with mental health issues from 1864 to 1994. Built on 269 acres across the West Fork River from Weston, it …

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e-WV Thomas Memorial Hospital

WEBThe Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital Association, chartered in July 1946, raised $250,000 to provide money for equipment and staff. The association …

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e-WV Patch Adams

WEBInstitute in Pocahontas County was born May 26, 1945 in Washington, D.C.. Since 1971, Adams has promoted an alternative vision of health care: traditional …

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e-WV Department of Mines

WEBRenamed the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training in 1991, the Department of Mines was created early in the 20th century to strengthen …

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