WNC Health Network

The WNC Health Network is a collaboration of hospitals and other health care providers to support the delivery of cost-effective, quality health services. The Network maintains a visionary community focus supported by collaboration, integrity and respect among our members.

The Network began in 1995 to identify, explore and implement cost-effective, collaborative opportunities among the hospitals and health care systems serving western North Carolina. In addition to the 16 WNC hospitals that comprise the founding members, the Network now includes 23 affiliate members across the Carolinas and southern Virginia.

The Network’s projects and initiatives fall into three general categories:

Reduce Health Care Costs.

The Network identifies, negotiates and implements contracts with vendors, suppliers and distributors to achieve the best pricing and reduce health care costs. By combining the hospitals’ volumes, the Network achieves savings of over $13 million annually for its members. The group purchasing activities include the founding members and affiliates.
Enhance Quality of Care.

The Network enhances the quality of care to western NC patients through collaborative initiatives such as transparent reporting of hospital data, sharing best practices, and sharing electronic patient data via the internet through the WNC Data Link project.
Improve Regional Health Status.

The Network provides leadership to improve the overall health in western NC through collaboration with regional health departments, community colleges, universities, mental health providers, physicians, Mountain AHEC, businesses, educators, elected officials and other regional health organizations.