Cabell Huntington Hospital

It is the mission of Cabell Huntington Hospital to promote health in the region through development and delivery of a full spectrum of services that improve the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of lives of those served. Therefore, the primary program service accomplishment is the inpatient and outpatient services performed. Cabell Huntington Hospital is licensed for 303 beds and staffed over 3,300 individuals. During fiscal year 2022, in addition to its adult and pediatric units, it operates a comprehensive cancer center, a pediatric intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, a burn intensive care unit, a surgical intensive care unit, a medical intensive care unit, and a coronary care unit. The organization also operates a children's Hospital. The children's Hospital unit has 71 beds with 36 beds in the level iii neonatal intensive care unit, 25 beds in the general pediatrics unit, and 10 beds in the pediatric intensive care unit. It also has a neonatal therapeutic unit. The Hospital is governed by a voluntary board of independent citizens of the community. During the fiscal year 2022, the Hospital provided services to 15,188 inpatients, which resulted in providing 99,398 days of care. The organization also provided care to 606,740 outpatients. This included 45,430 patient visits to the emergency room, which is operated 24 hours and is open to all patients regardless of their ability to pay. It also included 16,823 outpatient surgical procedures and 12,535 home health visits.

Cabell Huntington Hospital is a teaching Hospital that is associated with marshall university schools of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. The Hospital is leading the way in community health care and with that comes the responsibility of training others to continue the tradition of excellence. The Hospital residents and interns get the opportunity to train with some of the most highly qualified medical specialists in the area, sharing insight into the latest concepts in medical education and patient care. During the fiscal year 2022, 268 interns, fellows, and residents rotated through the Hospital. .

Cabell Huntington Hospital is very involved with the community it serves. During the fiscal year 2022, it held numerous events, including health screenings, education outreach, health fairs, and community training. Over 8,700 people attended these events that took place between october 1, 2021 and september 30, 2022. The cost associated with these activities is $262,850. The organization also gives back to the community by participating in various programs that promote healthy and safe lifestyles for the people that live here. The Hospital gave $64,892 for the support of Huntington's kitchen program that promotes healthy eating lifestyles. It promotes healthy exercise programs by providing annual funds to the ymca totaling $22,500 along with other donations to local running events. We provide service to ebenezer outreach which is a clinic for citizens with low income ($66,672). The amount of $5,000 was given to the Huntington museum of art for the program "art for medicine" for the edwards comprehensive cancer center patients and another $2,500 was given to the Huntington museum of art for saturday kids art. The amount of $2,500 was given to the Huntington city mission for their fighting hunger program. The amount of $7,500 was given to shepherd's house that assists residents with addiction recovery. The amount of $32,200 was given to support faith health appalachia whose mission is to be a conduit of transformation that connects community resources, hospitals, faith communities, health care facilities, and social service programs that is based on truth, care, and education to improve the total wellness of individuals and community. The faith health appalachia organization provides acute inpatient and outpatient care including services that are reimbursed for and noted as charity care. Additionally, chh gave $36,600 to various other community programs such as alchemy theatre troupe, coalition for the homeless, city of Huntington foundation, contact Huntington, drwv foundation, river cities ministry, stepping stones, team for wv children, and wv medical professional health program. The Hospital's charity care services were $19,549,472 (which is netted against revenues) and bad debt expense was $18,728,069. The Hospital considers all of this a community service.