WVU Hospitals’ Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center provides high quality trauma care around the clock, seven days a week. In 2001, WVUH became one of only 150 hospitals in the U.S. to be designated a Level 1 trauma center by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. The Center treats more than 3,000 patients a year.
The Trauma Center is also home to HealthNet I, the state’s aero medical emergency service, and MedCom, which coordinates emergency medical communications for a large region in northern West Virginia.
The Center was created in the 1980s with the assistance and support of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, and is named for his grandson, Jon Michael Moore, who died as the result of an automobile crash. Both the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and the State of West Virginia renewed its Level 1 status in November 2005.