The network offers a collective, partnership approach to improve health outcomes and to provide access to quality, efficient care for predominantly uninsured and underinsured individuals throughout its members' service areas and surrounding communities.  The CHNWV’s members provide services to more than 120,000 patients in 32 of West Virginia’s 55 counties each year, through 78 service delivery sites and with over 400,000 patient encounters annually.

One of the principal benefits of the CHNWV is its service as a leading technology service provider and resource.  Operating as an application service provider (ASP), the network’s technology and clinical management staff members deliver centralized practice management, electronic medical records (EMR), health information billing and client training services to its members.  In addition, the network offers centrally located, multiple data servers, high speed data communications connections, and redundancy in power support to safeguard against operational disruption.

Members maintain independent management and fiscal oversight structures while leveraging resources to provide technology and other services that would otherwise be out of reach for stand-alone, non-profit healthcare organizations.

Successes:

Over the past several years the CNHWV has achieved a number of successes for its members:

• the interconnection of a robust, redundant health network infrastructure
• more than $20 million in added funding and resources for the implementation of telehealth and electronic medical record systems
• improvements in telecommunications services and reductions in cost
• clinical case studies and projects demonstrating both health improvement and operational efficiencies