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Charleston Area Medical Center is the flagship of the CAMC Health System. A non-profit, 919-bed, regional referral center with more than 5,000 employees, CAMC has a distinct commitment to the people of southern West Virginia.

As Southern West Virginia's largest medical teaching facility, CAMC prepares a variety of health care professionals to care for West Virginians.

  
  
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On any given day, CAMC hosts more than 500 students in programs leading to degrees or certifications in health professions.

CAMC's well-trained nursing and support staff offers thousands of families convenience and accessibility to quality health care. CAMC is home to one of the top ten heart programs in the United States, one of two kidney transplant centers in the state, and one of the nation's busiest Level I Trauma Centers.

All medical services are supported by primary care physicians throughout the region who regularly treat their patients at CAMC or refer them here for specialty consultation and treatment. In all, nearly 600 physicians have admitting privileges at CAMC.

CAMC offers thousands of families convenience and accessibility through four local locations: General Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Women and Children's Hospital and the newest member facility, CAMC Teays Valley Hospital.


                                                                                                                          
Located on the eastern edge of downtown Charleston, Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital is home to our Neuroscience Center, Level I Trauma Center and CAMC Sleep Center.

Each year, our experienced trauma center staff treat nearly 2,500 patients. An average of 1,500 patients receive neurosurgery and medical rehabilitation services here.

Other services offered here include kidney transplantation program, carried out in tandem with the Cleveland Clinic; as well as the state's only accredited sleep disorders center. CAMC General Hospital is also home to our behavioral medicine, psychiatry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, transitional care and orthopedics departments.



CAMC Memorial Hospital is home to the nation's seventh largest cardiology programs. Here, physicians perform more cardiac catheterizations than Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic, and excel in bypass surgery. Baylor Medical Center has sent several surgeons to Charleston for training in some specialized procedures.

Memorial Hospital is also the site of the Cancer Center of Southern West Virginia and a related cancer patient support program; as well as the Heart Institute of West Virginia and a comprehensive Diabetes Center, clinics and general medical-surgical inpatient services.

The West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Charleston Division also is located on this campus.

CAMC Memorial Hospital is located in the Kanawha City area of Charleston, West Virginia, across the Kanawha River from the state capitol.



Women and Children's Hospital is located on the banks of the Elk River, just west of downtown Charleston, W. Va.

Each year more than 3,200 babies are born here, many of which are high-risk births. The hospital is home to the region's largest and busiest Level III neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit.

The pediatric physicians of West Virginia University/Charleston Division provide specialty consultation in endocrinology, surgery, trauma and critical care. Charleston Division obstetrics and gynecology faculty provide high-tech maternal-fetal medicine and gynecologic cancer services.

The Family Resource Center at Women and Children's Hospital is located on the Women and Children's Hospital campus in Charleston. Center staff provide short-term counseling, family-based health education and guided tours of CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital triage, labor/delivery/recovery and mother/baby units.


CAMC Teays Valley Hospital is a non-profit, 68-bed hospital located in Hurricane, WV. It is owned and operated by CAMC Teays Valley Hospital Inc., a subsidiary of CAMC Health System Inc. At CAMC Teays Valley Hospital, some 100 doctors with privileges at the hospital, working with more than 300 nurses and non-clinical staff, serve the residents of Putnam County and surrounding areas with emergency services and other specialized care.

 

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CAMC Health Education and Research Institute For information about our residency programs write to:
Graduate Medical Education
3110 MacCorkle Ave. S.E.
Charleston, WV 25304
or call (304) 388-9948
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