United Hospital Center

🎓🎓UHC's 2024 Family Medicine Residency Program graduates passed the American Board of Family Medicine certification exams and exceeded the national average. Shaping the future of medicine and health care is exactly what six graduates from United Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency program wanted to accomplish. The 2024 Family Medicine Residency Program graduates included: Kevin Tharakan, MD; Jennifer Tharakan, MD; Clayton Spencer, DO; Alexandra Reyes, MD; Nathan Hicks, MD; and Michen Dugan, DO. Congratulations to the 2024 class. We wish you well in all of your future endeavors!

Thank you Jenkins Subaru!! June marked Subaru Loves to Care month, Jenkins Subaru in Bridgeport has partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to bring warmth to cancer survivors being treated at United Hospital Center (UHC). Through their generosity, more than 150 blankets were donated locally.

❤️ The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) presented UHC’s Kara Elko, RN, BSN, Director of Critical Care with an award for exemplifying the CORE Values of Integrity, Quality, Responsiveness, Innovation, and Life. Kara exceeded the typical protocols to maximize every opportunity for a life-saving intervention. Despite the potential donor not being a UHC patient, she did not hesitate to ensure the family's wishes were honored. Her actions allowed the donor’s legacy to live on through others, showcasing the profound impact on the lives of many. Specifically, the donor’s heart was donated to a woman in her 60s, his liver was donated to a woman in her 50s, a kidney to a man in his 60s and the other kidney to a man in his 50s.

👏 👏 UHC received the prestigious Stryker Sustainability Solutions Environmental Excellence Award for its efforts in reprocessing single-use medical devices. This designation is reserved for select hospitals that demonstrate outstanding leadership in healthcare sustainability and overall hospital quality through single-use device (SUD) reprocessing. In 2023, United Hospital Center reprocessing program successfully diverted 234 pounds of medical waste from landfills and reduced its supply costs by $10,963. Pictured: Liberty Kincaid, CST, ASTT, clinical value analysis specialist at UHC; Josh Meadows, sales representative – Stryker Sustainability Solutions; and Sheldon Gilbert, MBA, BSN, RN, CNOR, director of Surgery at UHC.

United Hospital Center employees participated in the United Way Day of Action for Harrison and Doddridge counties on Friday, June 21. UHC volunteers were paired with community/United Way member agency service projects. The United Way Day of Action builds stronger, more equitable communities where everyone can thrive.

👏 Congratulations to Zachariah M. Thomas, MD for being recognized as one of the The State Journal's Generation Next: 40 under 40. The annual distinction has been given to a class of the Mountain State's finest for the past 19 years. Zachariah represents the state's spirit of hard work, teamwork, and assisting others.

Happy West Virginia Day from UHC! On this day in 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state admitted to the Union. Every day is West Virginia Day as far as we're concerned. 🌄💙💛

Stephanie Smart, VP and Chief Nursing Officer at UHC, was recently named among the “Top 50 Women Leaders of West Virginia” for 2024 by Women We Admire, a membership organization comprised of the “most accomplished women executives and leaders across the U.S. and Canada”.  Congratulations Stephanie! 

📢📢JOB ALERT!!! Join UHC as we prepare to introduce our brand new, state-of-the-art, nursing unit! Apply at https://lnkd.in/emPec3Hq

We officially broke ground today at the future location of the Elkins Corridor Medical Center. UHC would like to thank the citizens of Randolph County for such a warm welcome! We look forward to being your neighbor. We'll see you again at the grand opening in 2025!