CAMC Health System Recognitions & Designations
Our hospitals receive many recognitions and designations for providing high quality patient care.
CAMC Health System
- Southern West Virginia’s largest medical center
- Recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of America's Best-in-State Employers seven years in a row (2019-25) and one of America’s Best Large Employers (2026)
- WV’s only multi-site Magnet®-designated facility for nursing excellence and quality patient care, as recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
- The only kidney transplant center in southern West Virginia
- The first freestanding women and children’s hospital in West Virginia
- Level I Trauma Center (highest ranking)
- Level I pediatric intensive care unit (highest ranking)
- Level III neonatal intensive care unit (with the most critical NICU resources)
- A base of operation for HealthNet Aeromedical Services
- Primary medical safety net provider of women and children’s and trauma services in central and southern West Virginia
- Fully accredited by DNV-GL
- CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine is the only hospital-based provider of continuing medical education in West Virginia that is nationally accredited.
- CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine is accredited by the Assoc. for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, signifying excellence in protecting human research participants
- Recognized as a Best Regional Hospital by U.S. News and World Report (2024-25). CAMC was also recognized as High Performing Hospital in eight procedures/conditions including abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, heart failure, kidney failure, lung cancer surgery, leukemia lymphoma and myeloma and pneumonia. CAMC Greenbrier Valley Medical Center was rated as high performing in pneumonia care.
- Medical Rehabilitation received its 11th consecutive 3-year accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF International)
- The largest Cancer Center in southern West Virginia, accredited by QOPI and the Commission on Cancer
- CAMC has received re-accreditation under the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) Accreditation Program
- Vandalia Health CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital and CAMC Pediatric Cardiology have both been granted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Transthoracic.
- National Centers of Excellence in Robotic Surgery, Urology, Continence Care for Women and Minimally Invasive Surgery by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC)
- Vandalia Health CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital has been recognized as a Center of Excellence for Robotic Gynecologic Surgery (SRC)
- National Surgeons of Excellence designated by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC)
- Robotic Surgery – Stephen Bush II, MD; Samuel Deem, DO; Nathan Hale, DO
- Minimally Invasive Surgery – Stephen Bush II, MD; Samuel Deem, DO; Nathan Hale, DO
- Urology – Samuel Deem, DO; Nathan Hale, DO; James Tierney, DO
- Non-Invasive Vascular Lab received the bronze recognition from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission
- CAMC General Hospital received the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
- Certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by DNV-GL
- The Medtronic ALLEVIATE-HF study team recognized CAMC and its researchers for having the highest overall patient enrollment rate in the clinical trial to more quickly identify patients at risk of worsening heart failure.
- Medical Rehabilitation Center accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
- CAMC labs accredited by the College of American Pathologists
- WV Office of Emergency Services recognizes CAMC Memorial Hospital and CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital as ARK (Always Ready for Kids)
- Memorial Hospital received the Cardiac Surgical Unit Advanced Life Support Center of Excellence designation by Cardiac Advanced Resuscitation Education
- Charleston Area Alliance presented the CAMC Center for Learning and Research with its "We Love Our Community Best Development Award”
- CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital’s Emergency Department Recognized as PRC’s 2025 Excellence in Health Care Award Winner
CAMC Plateau Medical Center
- Plateau Medical Center received five-star ratings for patient recommendations, nurse communication and physician communication categories and for staff responsiveness by Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems.