Pathways To Funding For Adults & Seniors:
A Handbook for WV's Older Residents

Appendix I. WV Behavior Health Centers

Acute Care Psychiatric Hospitals

William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital: Provides quality acute care treatment services in a cost-effective manner, to persons suffering from mental illness.

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital: Provides quality, coordinated, cost-effective, acute inpatient psychiatric treatment for adults in West Virginia.

Long-term Care Facilities

John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center: Offers skilled/intermediate nursing, inpatient and outpatient clinical services at the most affordable cost and in the most efficient and accessible manner, targeting indigent residents who are unable to obtain these services in the community.

Pinecrest Hospital: Provides geriatric services to West Virginians requiring long-term and behavioral health care (who are not served by traditional health care systems) to improve their functioning ability and independence.

Hopemont: Provides quality, efficient and economical services to geriatric residents of West Virginia requiring long-term care and behavioral interventions to maximize their functioning ability and independence, enabling them to become successful and satisfied in their environment.

Lakin Hospital: Provides quality nursing long-term care services to West Virginia residents who have special placement needs due to behavioral, developmental and other complex problems and to whom community health will not or cannot provide these needed services. Lakin Hospital continues to provide quality nursing long-term care services to meet the state's needs in utilizing the facility for under-served West Virginia residents.

     These facilities provide Medicaid certified, geriatric services for those requiring long-term and behavioral health care to those adults who are not served by traditional health care systems to improve their functioning ability and independence.

Acute Care Facility

Welch Community Hospital: Provides acute inpatient and outpatient services to the rural population of southern West Virginia with emphasis on prevention and community education.