WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital

What WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital does

WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital is a community acute care hospital located in Barnesville, Ohio, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the West Virginia University Health System (WVU Medicine), a non-profit academic health system anchored by West Virginia University. The parent system operates 25 hospitals across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland, with more than 3,260 licensed beds, 3,417 providers, and over 35,000 employees, generating $7 billion in annual revenue. Barnesville Hospital extends the system's Ohio footprint and is integrated into the broader network of five specialized institutes — Cancer, Critical Care & Trauma, Eye, Heart & Vascular, and Rockefeller Neuroscience — plus the Golisano Children's Hospital, an academic medical center (J.W. Ruby Memorial), and West Virginia's first and only multi-organ transplant center.

Service delivery is structured around EpicCare Link for referring physician coordination and MyWVUChart as the patient portal supporting appointment scheduling, prescription refills, virtual care access, and provider messaging. Distribution channels include 112+ Family Medicine locations, 38 Pediatric locations, 40 Internal Medicine locations, 24 urgent care centers, and a virtual care platform spanning e-visits, video visits, and remote patient monitoring. Mobile community outreach includes cancer screening programs such as Bonnie's Bus and LUCAS.

WVU Medicine generates revenue primarily through fee-for-service healthcare delivery across the 25-hospital network, supplemented by Peak Health, a provider-led health insurance company launched in 2023 and jointly owned with Marshall Health Network and Valley Health offering Medicare Advantage and employer-based plans. Pricing is governed by standard hospital billing, payment plans, financial assistance programs, and CMS price transparency disclosures. The go-to-market motion combines healthcare professional referrals (via EpicCare Link), direct-to-consumer engagement through the patient portal and walk-in clinics, and academic referral patterns typical of academic medical centers.

Name

WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital

Legal name

West Virginia University Health System

Website

https://wvumedicine.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital is a community acute care hospital in Barnesville, Ohio, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the West Virginia University Health System, a 25-hospital, $7B-revenue non-profit academic health system serving patients across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute Care Hospital Services

NAICS

Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Health Centers (FQHCs & Look-Alikes) (HLAFAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Children’s Hospitals (Acute Care) (HLAFAAAI), Ambulatory Cardiology Diagnostic & Procedure Centers (Non-hospital-based) (HLAFABAK)

Keywords

• Hospital healthcare services
• Emergency and trauma care
• Specialty medical institutes
• Telehealth and virtual care
• Academic medical center

Headquarters

HQ city

Barnesville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: Revenue generated from comprehensive medical services including hospital care, physician services, emergency care, surgical procedures, diagnostic services, and specialty care across the 25-hospital system.
2. Health Insurance (Peak Health): WVU Medicine launched Peak Health, a provider-led health insurance company offering Medicare Advantage plans and employer-based options. Peak Health is owned by WVU Medicine, Marshall Health Network, and Valley Health.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital is an acute care community hospital within the West Virginia University Health System, providing emergency care, primary care, diagnostic, and specialty health services to patients in Barnesville, Ohio and the surrounding region. As part of a 25-hospital nonprofit academic health system, Barnesville Hospital delivers integrated inpatient and outpatient services, supported by referral access to the system's six specialty institutes and tertiary care centers.

Product overview

WVU Medicine is a comprehensive healthcare system consisting of 25 hospitals across West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, offering integrated healthcare services through a multi-tiered platform approach. The system operates six specialized institutes (Cancer, Golisano Children's, Critical Care & Trauma, Eye, Heart & Vascular, and Rockefeller Neuroscience) that provide advanced specialty care across the hospital network. Key products and services include the MyWVUChart patient portal for appointment scheduling and health record access, EpicCare Link for healthcare provider coordination, Peak Health insurance for integrated payer-provider services, Virtual Care telehealth offerings, WVU Medicine Community Pharmacies including specialty and home infusion services, Transplant Alliance for multi-organ transplants, and comprehensive Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Emergency Care services at hospital locations including Barnesville Hospital.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Peak Health: A provider-led health insurance company headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, owned by WVU Health System, Marshall Health Network, and Valley Health. Offers Medicare Advantage plans and employer-based insurance options.
• MyWVUChart
• WVU Cancer Institute
• WVU Medicine Golisano Children's
• WVU Critical Care & Trauma Institute
• WVU Eye Institute
• WVU Heart & Vascular Institute
• WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
• Transplant Alliance

Quantifiable outcome

• West Virginia's largest private employer with over 35,000 employees
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Peak HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeak Health is a provider-led health insurance company launched in 2023, jointly owned by WVU Medicine, Marshall Health Network, and Valley Health. Headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, it offers Medicare Advantage plans and employer-based insurance options. This partnership represents a vertically integrated healthcare delivery model bridging the gap between provider and payer.
• EpicCare Link Partner SitescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEpicCare Link provides real-time web access to patient information for referring physicians, provider offices, post-discharge care facilities, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities. Partners gain access to patient clinical data and can refer patients to WVU Medicine through the certified EpicCare Link platform.
• Golisano Children's AllianceflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerTom Golisano created the Golisano Children's Alliance with a $253 million commitment to support six new children's hospitals across the United States. WVU Medicine Golisano Children's is part of this national initiative to expand pediatric healthcare access and services.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Bon Secours Mercy Health: Bon Secours Mercy Health is a $10B+ Catholic non-profit system operating 50+ hospitals across the eastern US. It shares the non-profit multi-state community-hospital model and competes for tertiary referrals within reach of WVU's footprint in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
• Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland Clinic is a $14B+ multi-specialty academic health system headquartered in Ohio with specialty institutes (Heart, Cancer, Neurological) and a national referral franchise. While much larger, it competes with WVU Medicine's Heart & Vascular and Cancer Institutes for patients who might otherwise travel from WV/PA/OH for quaternary care.
• UPMC: UPMC is a $25B+ academic integrated delivery network spanning 40+ hospitals across Pennsylvania and adjacent states with an owned health plan. It is the closest large-scale analog to WVU Medicine – a non-profit academic system that combines quaternary specialty institutes, a provider-led insurance arm, and an aggressive regional acquisition strategy, competing for the same patient catchment in western PA.
• Inova Health System: Inova is a $5B+ not-for-profit health system based in northern Virginia operating five hospitals plus a research institute. While geographically distant, it shares the not-for-profit multi-hospital model with extensive specialty institutes that compete for academic physicians and quaternary referrals in the broader Mid-Atlantic region.
• Trinity Health: Trinity Health is one of the largest Catholic non-profit health systems in the US, operating 90+ hospitals across 20+ states with extensive rural footprints. It shares the same non-profit, multi-state community-hospital model and labor cost dynamics that drive WVU Medicine's operating structure.

Direct peers

• Valley Health System: Valley Health is a six-hospital regional system serving the WV/Virginia border region and is a joint owner of Peak Health with WVU Medicine and Marshall. It is both a partner and a comparable peer – operating community hospitals in adjacent geographies that overlap with WVU's western Virginia catchment.
• Penn State Health: Penn State Health is a five-hospital academic system anchored by Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in central PA with affiliated community hospitals stretching toward the WV/PA border. It overlaps directly with WVU's tertiary referral catchment and competes for the same academic medical talent.
• Geisinger Health: Geisinger is an integrated academic health system headquartered in Pennsylvania with 10+ hospitals, a provider-led insurance arm (Geisinger Health Plan), and a reputation for pioneering value-based care. It directly competes with WVU Medicine for tertiary referrals across north-central PA and shares the academic-integrated-insurer model that defines WVU's Peak Health play.
• Allegheny Health Network: Allegheny Health Network operates 14 hospitals across western Pennsylvania as part of Highmark Health – competing head-to-head with WVU Medicine for the same patient population in the western PA/northern WV border region while leveraging a vertically integrated payer-provider model similar to WVU Medicine/Peak Health.
• Marshall Health Network: Marshall Health Network is West Virginia's other major academic-affiliated health system and a joint owner (along with Valley Health) of Peak Health. It is both a partner and a peer – operating hospitals throughout southern WV in overlapping service lines with WVU Medicine, and competes for the same academic, payor, and physician talent pool.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/WVUMedicine
• Facebookfacebook.com/WVUMedicine
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wvumedicine
• Xx.com/WVUMedicine

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries25 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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