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History - Valley Health
History

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Valley Health got its start in 1975, and by 1978, opened three health centers in Barboursville, Wayne, and Milton.

Since founding those original health centers, Valley Health has seen great success and an increased need for primary care in rural West Virginia.  Today, Valley Health operates over 30 health centers and public health programs in West Virginia and southeastern Ohio.

Timeline

Access to Care
Provide access to health services in rural communities.
1976
Grand Opening
Guyandotte Opens
1979
2 New Locations
Upper Kanawha and Harts were added.
(result of the UMWA strike)
1981
New Programs
Kanawha, Putnam & Boone County WIC;
Black Lung Program

Cabell WIC Program
1985
New Service
Homeless Services; McKinney Act
1987
New Programs
Ultrasound Added
1992
New Facility
Stepptown
(2000 Facility)
1995
West Virginia Immunization Network, 1993 Htg. Immunization Network
1998
Access to Care
Programs for the working uninsured: OUCH, U-Care; WV Connect
2002
Grand Opening (NAP)
Westmoreland Location
2003
Grand Opening
Hurricane Location
2010
Network Expansion
Mason County Expansion: G.F., Peds, Women's Health; BRIGHT Program
2012
Health Plans
WV Family Health Plan Affordable Care Act - Outreach & Enrollment Patient Centered Medical Home Behavioral Health
2015
AND STILL GROWING
1975
New Beginnings
Grant, Barboursville and Wayne Open
1978
Dental Site
Fort Gay Opens 1st Dental Site
1989
WIC Program
(Lincoln and Wayne Counties)
1982
Youth Health
Youth Health Center, now Southside
1986
VHH opened at Fairfield, moved to Hal Greer 1998
1991
New Services
PHARMACY;
A Woman's Place opened;
Mobile Children's Unit
WV Health Project (2003 >M.U.)
1994
More Locations
Fort Gay Facility Capital Improvement Grant; 1st SBHC Huntington High and Ironton, OH
1997
New Services + SBHC
New Services: Lab/Diagnostics;

SBHC
At Spring Valley High School
2001
Facility Funding
Senator Robert C. Byrd funds Harts facility
2003
Grand Opening
Highlawn Location
2007
Elementary SBHC
1st Elementary SBHC site: Huntington Middle/Southside Elementary
2011
Capital Development
Valley Health - East Huntington
2013
New Service + Grand Opening
New Service
Optometry; Expansion of Services Grant

Grand Opening
Teays Valley Location
PRESENT

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; the federal Community Access Program (CAP); and the federal Black Lung Clinic grant through the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health. Valley Health has been both a grantee and a sub-grantor for the Federal Health Care for the Homeless grant that oversees not only the Harmony House Homeless Clinic located in Huntington, WV, but homeless programs throughout the state of West Virginia including Charleston, Wheeling, and Morgantown.  Valley Health, in collaboration with the Children’s Health Fund, began the operation of the unique West Virginia Children’s Health Project; a mobile medical unit that has taken medical care directly to children in isolated areas since 1992.

Throughout this time, Valley Health has demonstrated a record of responsible grant oversight and sound fiscal management.

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