Wheeling Health Right, Inc.

Wheeling Health Right, Inc. is a medical clinic in Wheeling, WV, that operates as a free primary care clinic serving under-served residents of the Ohio Valley. The clinic provides free medical care, preventive care, dental care, and pharmaceuticals to people who are uninsured, underinsured, or medically underserved. Its service area extends across six counties surrounding Wheeling, including Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler Counties in West Virginia, as well as Belmont County in Ohio. The clinic holds a rating of 4.30. Wheeling Health Right is a United Way agency and a nurse-managed clinic where every patient is first evaluated by an advanced nurse practitioner or physician assistant under a collaborative agreement with a local physician. The organization opened its doors in 1985 to address the unmet medical needs of people without health coverage. Its staff and volunteer healthcare professionals offer their services at no cost, allowing the clinic to serve over 27,000 medically underserved individuals each year. Upon agency referral, eligible patients can also receive charitable inpatient and outpatient care at participating area hospitals and physician offices. The clinic is located at 61 29th Street, near the Chapline Street Row Historic District and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, both within about a tenth of a mile. West Virginia State Police sits roughly a fifth of a mile away, and 25th Street Park is a short distance down the road. As the only free clinic in the Ohio Valley and one recognized among the best free health clinics in the United States, Wheeling Health Right has spent decades providing medical, dental, and mental health care to residents of Wheeling and the surrounding region who would otherwise go without treatment.