Our Legacy
Who We Are
For more than 125 years, WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center has been the heartbeat of healthcare in the Mid-Ohio Valley region. What began as a small city hospital in 1898 has grown into a 302-licensed-bed, not-for-profit, acute care facility serving an 11-county region of roughly 275,000 residents across West Virginia and Southeastern Ohio.
WVU Medicine Camden Clark offers a broad spectrum of services—emergency & trauma, specialty care, wellness programs, outpatient clinics, advanced diagnostics, and inpatient treatment—staffed by over 220 physicians across nearly every major specialty.
Even as we expand and modernize, our guiding mission remains firm: “to meet the healthcare needs of our community for a lifetime.” We aim to combine academic-level care with the warmth of a community hospital, so patients don’t have to travel far to access advanced medicine.
Leading Innovation
The transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) program consists of three state-of-the-art TMS laboratories. All systems utilize integrated neuronavigational, electroencephalography, electromyography, and virtual reality. In addition to clinical use for the improvement of treatment resistant depression, our researchers are exploring other possible application for TMS in the management of conditions across neuroscience domains. These areas include Alzheimer’s disease, stroke rehabilitation, tics, chronic pain, and addiction.
Our Legacy of Care
Our roots date back to 1898, when the original City Hospital opened as a 40-bed facility on 13th Street, complete with a nursing school. In 1920, the hospital moved to the Camden Mansion on Garfield Avenue. The historic home, once owned by U.S. Senator and industrialist Johnson Camden and his wife, Anne, was donated to the city after Anne’s passing. With support from Dr. Andrew Clark, it was transformed into Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital, establishing a legacy of care that continues to present day.