Services provided at the WVU Critical Care and Trauma Institute are the centerpiece of the critical care mission of WVU Medicine. Established in December 2015, the Institute is a leading provider of specialized care to critically ill and injured patients throughout West Virginia and the Appalachian region.

Under the leadership of Chair and Executive Director Alison Wilson, MD, the Institute includes the following units at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Neurological Critical Care Unit (NCCU), and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU).

The Institute is also home to Ruby Memorial’s Trauma Department and Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, an American College of Surgeons (ACS)-verified adult (Level 1) and pediatric (Level 2) trauma center, providing the highest levels of care.

The Trauma Center is the region’s only nationally verified Level 1 and Level 2 trauma center, and it’s one of only 100 ACS-verified Level 1 trauma centers in the United States.

What We Do

The WVU Critical Care and Trauma Institute oversees care for the most seriously injured and sickest patients. Our highly skilled team of board-certified surgeons and critical care physicians provides advanced, leading-edge care for thousands of patients every year.

West Virginia sees high numbers of motor vehicle- and ATV-related deaths, fatal occupational injuries, and accidental poisoning deaths (including overdoses) each year, but the WVU Critical Care and Trauma Institute aims to reverse these trends through research, education, outreach, injury prevention, and improved patient care.

The Institute also offers expertise in the design and implementation of systems of care for the “sickest of the sick” patients – the most critically injured patients who have sustained life-threatening trauma, requiring immediate and complex medical intervention from a specialized trauma team.

What We Offer

The WVU Critical Care and Trauma Institute offers a full range of critical care services across the scope of healthcare specialties, including treatment of cardiac, pulmonary, surgical, and neurological injury; acute and chronic illness; and infectious diseases.

As the Institute continues to extend its range of support for medical centers throughout West Virginia and the region, a focus on the use of technology is expanding virtual care services across a range of hospital programs. Virtual care services allow outlying medical treatment centers to consult directly with highly trained critical care specialists from remote locations.