CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER INC
501 Morris Street, Charleston, WV 25301 www.camc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.'s ("CAMC") primary charitable exempt purpose is to provide hospital care, without distinction, for all the inhabitants of the City of Charleston, State of West Virginia and elsewhere, to promote legitimate methods for the prevention of disease and positive promotion of health (both personal and public), and to foster and conduct education in medicine in all its branches and adjunct arts and sciences, such as nursing and technical occupations, which contribute to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.

Striving to provide the best healthcare to every patient, every day.CAMC owns and operates four separately-licensed hospitals as a tertiary-care teaching hospital designed to provide care for community residents through every stage of life. CAMC patients depend on CAMC to provide convenient and compassionate care delivered regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

CAMC is one of West Virginia's largest medical center with over 9,222 employees and 757 medical staff. CAMC is licensed for 956 beds at four campuses and our health care services delivery focuses on providing a full range of inpatient and outpatient services as a tertiary regional referral center, teaching and safety net hospital. As a regional referral center, CAMC has one of only two state Level 1 Trauma Centers, a Level III Neonatal ICU, a Pediatric ICU, a DNV-Certified Primary Stroke Center, and a Bariatric Center of Excellence. CAMC is the primary medical safety net provider of women and children's and trauma services in central and southern West Virginia and provides 20% of the charity care in the state. There were inpatient days of 216,454, outpatient visits of 626,605, emergency department visits of 102,046 and deliveries of 2,818 in 2019. CAMC gives back to the community because we understand the impact that high quality medical care, charity care, education, corporate contributions and community partnerships have on the lives of real people.

CAMC has established medical and allied health education excellence as a core competency. Provision and support for education include training for interns and residents, nurses, anesthetists and other personnel. 179 WVU/WVSOM medical students trained at CAMC hospitals and 183 medical residents were employed by CAMC. CAMC provided faculty support to the University of Charleston helping educate pharmacy students, nursing students and physician assistance program. CAMC assisted 12 employees through student loan forgiveness, and provided educational assistance to 468 individuals who intend to pursue a career in healthcare.

CAMC does much more than just provide health care, being involved in nearly every aspect of the health and well being of the community. CAMC offered 77 outreach programs which served an estimated 62,730 people. CAMC provided acute inpatient and outpatient hospital services including unreimbursed charity care at cost of $20,986,228. Creative, state-of-the-art programs and services are provided to our community to serve our community - particularly the needs of the low income, elderly and other vulnerable persons. Community benefits are programs or activities that provide treatment or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs and meet at least one of the following community benefit criteria: 1) Improves access to health care services; 2) Enhances health of the community; 3) Advances medical or health care knowledge; 4) Relieves or reduces the burden of government or other community efforts.

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