History

Valley Health History

Valley Health began its mission in 1975. By 1978, Valley Health opened three health centers in Barboursville, Wayne, and Milton.

Since founding those original health centers, Valley Health has continued its passion for meeting primary care needs in rural West Virginia and Ohio. Today, Valley Health operates more than 40 health centers and public health programs in southwestern West Virginia and southern Ohio.

Timeline

1975
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PRESENT

Access to Care

Provide access to health services in rural communities.

New Beginnings

Grant, Barboursville and Wayne Open

Grand Opening

Guyandotte Opens

Dental Site

Fort Gay Opens 1st Dental Site

2 New Locations

Upper Kanawha and Harts were added. (result of UMWA strike)

WIC Program

(Lincoln and Wayne Counties)

Cabell WIC Program

New Programs

Kanawha, Putnam & Boone County WIC; Black Lung Program

Youth Health

Youth Health Center, now Southside

New Service

Homeless Services; McKinney Act

VHH opened at Fairfield, moved to Hal Greer 1998

New Programs

Ultrasound Added

New Services

PHARMACY;
A Woman’s Place opened;
Mobile Children’s Unit
WV Health Project (2003 M.U.)

New Facility

Stepptown
(2000 Facility)

More Locations

Fort Gay Facility Capital
Improvement Grant; 1st SBHC
Huntington High and Ironton, OH

West Virginia Immunization Network, 1993
Htg. Immunization Network

New Services

Lab/Diagnostics;
SBHC At Spring Valley High School

SBHC

At Wayne High School

Access to Care

Programs for the working uninsured: OUCH, U-Care;
WV Connect

Facility Funding

Senator Robert C. Byrd funds Harts facility

Grand Opening (NAP)

Westmoreland Location

Grand Opening

Highlawn Location

Grand Opening

Hurricane Location

Elementary SBHC

1st Elementary SBHC
site: Huntington Middle/Southside Elementary

Network Expansion

Mason County Expansion: G.F., Peds, Women’s Health;
BRIGHT Program

Capital Development

Valley Health-East Huntington

Health Plans

WV Family Health Plan Affordable
Care Act – Outreach & Enrollment
Patient Centered Medical
Home Behavioral Health

New Service

Optometry; Expansion of Services Grant
GRAND OPENING
Teays Valley Location

And still growing

Funding

Valley Health has been an annual recipient of dollars awarded through Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act over its history.

In 1991, Valley Health expanded to become the largest regional lead agency for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program, serving six counties, two of which are the most urban counties in West Virginia. Additionally, Valley Health has managed and directly supervised grant programs such as:

  • The Federal Community Health Center (CHC) Perinatal Grant
  • Federal Rural Health Outreach Grants
  • Federal Community Access Program (CAP)
  • Federal Black Lung Clinic Grant, through the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health

Valley Health has been a grantee and a sub-grantor for the Federal Health Care for the Homeless grant. The grant oversees not only the Harmony House Homeless Clinic in Huntington, WV, but also homeless programs throughout West Virginia, including Charleston, Wheeling, and Morgantown. In collaboration with the Children’s Health Fund, Valley Health began operating the unique West Virginia Children’s Health Project. This mobile medical unit has taken medical care directly to children in isolated areas since 1992. Valley Health has demonstrated a record of responsible grant oversight and sound fiscal management throughout this time.

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