CEO , West Virginia Health Right , Inc .
Angie Settle , DNP , APRN , BC , FNP
CEO , West Virginia Health Right , Inc .
MAGGIE HATFIELD
Angie Settle , DNP , APRN , BC , FNP , has always had a desire to help people , which has been the guiding force that led her to thrive in the health care industry .
“ I have always wanted to be a nurse ,” she says . “ I have a picture of me when I was 4 or 5 years old in a white nursing outfit at Halloween . I really love helping people , too , and I think that ’ s what drove me forward .”
Settle received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Charleston in 1993 and then worked toward her Master of Science in nursing as a family nurse practitioner at Marshall University .
“ I had the opportunity to come to West Virginia Health Right when I was doing my clinical practicum for my master ’ s at Marshall in 1995 ,” she says . “ I first came to West Virginia Health Right as part of that educational training and immediately fell in love with it .”
West Virginia Health Right is a nonprofit and the largest free , charitable clinic in the state , serving 43,500 lowincome , uninsured and underinsured adults .
Settle started as a registered nurse at West Virginia Health Right in March of 1997 . Under the guidance of Pat White , a previous CEO , she learned how to be a female leader in a male-dominated industry .
Photo by John Sibold .
“ She encouraged me all along and taught me about advocating for our patient population , showing by example the lengths she would go to make things happen for our patients ,” Settle recalls .
Throughout the years , Settle worked her way up in the company while staying true to her passion : providing outstanding patient care .
“ As a board-certified family nurse practitioner , I saw patients as a provider exclusively up until 2006 . I then became clinical coordinator for the whole clinic under Pat White . At the time , I was still seeing patients , but I was also doing all the management of all the clinical areas until 2014 ” Settle says .
Throughout her journey , Settle has been able to overcome quite a few challenges .
“ In the summer of 2013 , I decided to go back to school to get my doctorate . At that time , I had six kids . I was working full time as clinical coordinator and had all these kids , so sometimes I would stay up all night doing my schoolwork ,” she says .
Eventually , all of that hard work paid off as Settle became CEO in July of 2014 and graduated from the University of Alabama with her doctorate that August .
“ This was definitely one of the most challenging years of my life , and I came
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