West Virginia University Health System

West Virginia United Health System, Inc. dba West Virginia University Health System WVUHS was formed to serve as a part of an integrated health science and healthcare delivery system. WVUHS functions to provide strategic leadership, oversight, and centralized support services for member hospitals and affiliated organizations which allow those entities to deliver higher quality healthcare, reduce the costs of services provided to the public, and provide better environment for education and research. An example of support services provided by WVUHS includes centralized contracting and procurement, historically saving the member organizations in excess of 20 million per year. WVUHS also facilitates the sharing of clinical information to streamline development of quality improvement, clinical best practice, and data sharing efforts. Finally, there is a highly shared focus on quality of care and patient satisfaction at the system level, as the WVUHS Board of Directors continuously looks at Clinical Quality and Patient Satisfaction dashboards which track results from each facility.