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1-2. David Phillips, CEO of WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital, introduces himself to Harrison County commissioners during Wednesday’s meeting.
CADIZ The Harrison County Board of Commissioners recognized May as Mental Health Awareness Month on Wednesday.
At the request of the Mental Health and Recovery Board, which serves Belmont, Harrison and Monroe counties, Commissioners Don Bethel, Paul Coffland and Don Bethel signed a Mental Health Awareness Month proclamation. No representative of the recovery board was present at the meeting. Coffland read the proclamation, which states the importance of mental health to a person’s overall health and well-being.
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WVU Medicine Scales Olive’s AI Workforce
April 27, 2021 GMT
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U.S.A., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, Olive, the company delivering innovation to healthcare through artificial intelligence (AI), announced that West Virginia University Health System, West Virginia’s largest private employer, is extending its use of Olive’s fast-growing AI workforce to solve some of the health systems’ biggest administrative challenges.
The Health System, which operates under the brand WVU Medicine, began its relationship with Olive in early 2020 with Olive automating back office claims management. Based on the extraordinary success achieved in tackling claim status burdens, WVU Medicine is expanding its use of Olive to an enterprise-wide automation program.
Wetzel County Hospital Joins WVU Medicine Group
By Randy Rutherford - Staff Writer | Apr 21, 2021
Wetzel County Hospital
Wetzel County Hospital joined the WVU Medicine group in July 2020. I recently sat down with Shawn Smith, Chief Operating Officer and Roger Lockhart, Marketing Director, both with Camden Clark Hospital, Parkersburg, WV. Both gentlemen walked me through several reasons how this joint venture will bring better services to the citizens of the Ohio Valley.
WVU Medicine has recently added several facilities to their family including: Wheeling Hospital; Fairmont Medical Center in Fairmont; WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital; United Hospital Center in Bridgeport; Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg; Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg; Barnesville Hospital in Belmont County, Ohio; Braxton County Memorial Hospital in Gasaway; Harrison Community Hospital in Cadiz, Ohio; Jackson General Hospital in Ripley; Jefferson Medical Center in Ranson; Potomac Valley Hosp
John McCabe | Apr 7, 2021
Meet Albert Wright Previously chief operating officer of WVU Medicine, CEO of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital Senior-level administrator at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Ohio Health in Columbus Master’s degree in health administration from the Ohio State University Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Florida Married, four children
WHEELING The wait was worth it for Albert Wright.
As president and CEO of WVU Medicine in Morgantown, the “academic health system of the land-grant university of the state of West Virginia,” Wright said it’s long been a goal of the health system to gain entry into the Northern Panhandle and Upper Ohio Valley markets. That initially came to fruition a few years ago with the acquisition of WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, and was further cemented with the addition of WVU Medicine Wetzel County Hospital.
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Looking around Wheeling Hospital, its inclusion into the West Virginia University Health System is obvious.
The “Flying WV,” the logo synonymous with WVU, can be found prominently and abundantly. Yet, Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison said that the hospital joining the WVU team is much more than a cosmetic change. It’s a change that he feels will benefit Wheeling and the Ohio Valley immediately and well into the future.
“You’re joining a world-class academic health center and health system,” Harrison said. “As a part of that, WVU medicine will provide the resources necessary to make sure Wheeling Hospital is successful. If you look around our system, every hospital that we’ve brought in, if you look from day one and look through a three-year scope, you’ve seen growth.