WVU Medicine - West Virginia University Health System is West Virginia University’s affiliated health system, West Virginia’s largest private employer, and a national leader in patient safety and quality. More than 1,000 active medical staff members and 15,000 employees serve hundreds of thousands of people each year from across the state of West Virginia and the nation, driven by an unbridled passion to provide the most advanced healthcare possible to the people of West Virginia and beyond. The health system includes the physicians, specialists, and sub-specialists of the West Virginia University School of Medicine; five community hospitals; three critical access hospitals; and a children’s hospital, all anchored by a 600-bed academic medical center that offers tertiary and quaternary care.