The new 18,000-square-foot building, located at 240 Joshua M. Freeman Blvd., is home to Valley Health’ s former internal medicine practice, which has undergone a name change to Valley Health Primary Care | Ranson in order to align more closely with Valley Health’ s commitment to serve as a medical home to individuals throughout their lives. The facility will offer comprehensive primary care and outpatient laboratory services in a patient-centered environment, with shell space reserved for future expansion as community needs grow.
WVSOM Leads in Producing Physicians for West Virginia
Data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission’ s 2025 Health Sciences and Rural Health Report show that the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine( WVSOM) ranks highest among the state’ s three medical schools in producing physicians who practice in West Virginia.
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The report profiles West Virginia’ s three medical schools and details behavioral health workforce development, graduate medical education, nursing workforce development, emergency medical services workforce development and health care career pathway development in the state.
“ The report provides evidence that we’ re still doing an excellent job in areas in which WVSOM has long been a leader,” says WVSOM President James W. Nemitz, Ph. D.
The report highlights WVSOM’ s impact on West Virginia’ s physician workforce. It shows 187 WVSOM graduates from classes between 2015 and 2020 currently practice in West Virginia. In comparison, the secondhighest school produced 162 in-state physicians, while the third-highest produced 69.
“ This data supports what we already know. WVSOM is a great place to learn to become a compassionate, highly skilled physician,” he says.“ As a result, communities in West Virginia and beyond are seeing the benefits.”
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Fulcher Legacy Fund Forgives $ 4.2 Million in Medical Debt for West Virginians
In honor of two lifelong public servants, Dr. Paul Howard Fulcher and Martha Turley Fulcher, their daughter Lauren Fulcher Ganim has launched The Fulcher Legacy Fund: Healing Beyond the Practice, a campaign to erase medical debt for families across West Virginia.
In partnership with Undue Medical Debt, the fund aims to raise $ 37,000, which will erase approximately $ 4.2 million in unpaid medical debt for West Virginians facing financial hardship.
“ My parents spent their lives caring for others through medicine, education and community,” says Ganim.“ This fund allows their healing to continue not through prescriptions but through forgiveness.”
Undue Medical Debt identifies and buys bundled medical debt portfolios at a fraction of their face value, then forgives them with no strings attached. Every $ 1 donated eliminates about $ 100 in medical debt.
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