Success Stories by State: West Virginia

• Eastern Panhandle Integrated Delivery System Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The project was designed to promote health, prevent disease, and increase access to health care services for older individuals by providing outreach and education about existing health care and social services.
• Hardy County School-Based Health Project
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the project was to improve access to health services for children in the Hardy County schools and to enhance their physical and emotional well-being by providing them with comprehensive health care services.
• Rural Health Outreach (Charleston, West Virginia)
  May 2009
  This program, the only one of its kind in West Virginia, was designed to overcome some of the key rural health care access issues experienced by people with HIV/AIDS.
• Community Connection
  May 2009
  The main goal of the Community Connection project was to provide integrated mental health and primary preventive services to adolescents and elderly individuals living in the Beverly, Daily, Mill Creek, and Mingo districts of Randolph County and the Belington district of southern Barbour County.
• Community Access Program (CAP)- West Virginia
  April 2008
  Partners in Health Network improved access to health care services, provided discounts and free services to patients who met the financial eligibility screening, and provided care management services to adults ages 19-64 with asthma, depression, diabetes and hypertension.
• Credentialing Verification Service- West Virginia
  April 2008
  Partners in Health Network, Inc. (PIHN) Credentialing Verification Service’s (CVS) purpose is to assist associate entities (both members and non-members of the Network) in credentialing practitioners in accordance with accreditation standards and guidelines.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  October 2007
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships/AHEC Program
  June 2006
  WVRHEP/AHEC is made up of 11 consortia and four Area Health Education Centers each with a local board of directors. Approximately 800 rural community leaders, local rural health providers, and higher education institutional representatives are involved in all aspects of the program.
• Nicholas County Rural Health Outreach Grant Program
  July 2005
  This program provided health care services to medically underserved populations and also offered health education and prevention programs for the population at large, as well as continuing assessment, screening, and follow-up services.
• Lincoln Primary Care Center Rural Outreach Grant Program
  July 2005
  The partners in this collaboration used grant funds to improve access to care and the coordination of services by creating a secure, online system for primary care providers to access hospitalization records, and by developing a secure, Internet-based system for health care providers to access medical literature.