Welch Community Hospital 454 McDowell Street, Welch, WV 24801

"Not great but not bad as well. I have had bad and good experiences with doctors in that hospital BUT overall the experience has been good and it is where my primary care doctor is at and he seems to be alright as he calls me with blood work and when he forgot to refill a prescription he was fast in responding and refilling it."

"The only place I will go for medical care. They have never been anything but wonderful to me and my family."

"Dr. Cowans was unprofessional in his deliverance of the medical care he provided. He was sloppy, came into the room and plopped himself over the patient table. He did not read the chart before he came into the room. In the 15 minutes he was in the room he told me no less than 20 times “I don’t prescribe pain medication.” I was there on one visit to establish care for a primary care Dr(PCP) the 2nd time I had Blood Pressures running in the 150-200 and was having Headaches and blurred vision. He wanted to send me to a neurologist for B/P problems! He told me one of the medications I have been on for years “they don’t make this” he called me a liar! I had already taken the bottle in for him to look at it previously. The staff were unprofessional in their treatment of the flow of patients. Both times they were gathered together in a room talking and laughing ignoring the patients."

"The people at the hospital were quite kind, however the service and quality of experience was unsatisfactory. I went in with my father following an ATV accident while we were out of town and he received a chest x-ray and was informed he had not broken anything. A few days later my mom rushes him to the ER when we are back home, and further scans revealed he broke 5 ribs. Service also felt quite slow for 9:00 o’clock at night but I’m not sure who else they might have been attending to. The people were kind but the service was insufficient"

"The nursing care my father received in the Med/Surge department of this hospital is second to none and we have been to many hospitals of late. Thank you to all the nursing crew and the behind the scene staff members. We will always remember or positive experience."