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
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.