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Patrick Morrisey: “Poor health is the single largest driver of low labor force…”

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Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program

Published November 5, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:19

West Virginia is going to confront the barriers directly that keep West Virginians out of the workforce. I've mentioned it before. I'll mention again. Poor health is the single largest driver of low labor force participation [in West Virginia]. We have one of the highest disability incident rates in America. We have to address that. And that's why improving healthcare outcomes must be a primary focus. (06:19–06:26)

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Asserts that poor health is the main cause of low labor force participation in West Virginia.

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“West Virginia could receive more than $100 million a year, every year for five years [as a result of this application].”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 05:23-05:30
“We're last in workforce participation. That must change and I am so happy to work with the legislature to address that issue more and more…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 09:54-10:06
“We believe that the statute will provide what we think will be the minimum of $500 million.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 26:26-26:33
“We just filed [an application] with CMS to have transformational health care outcomes in our state.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 00:40-00:48
“A key focus of this work is going to be building an integrated data system that's going to allow for real time analysis and improve patient…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 07:10-07:21
“We're going to support EMS treatment in place programs that will help reduce unnecessary emergency visits by allowing some of our patients…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 07:22-07:36
“Our second initiative builds on a unified one stop health mobility platform that connects medical transportation, public transit and…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 07:36-07:50
“The initiative is going to fund vehicle and driver grants. It's going to help expand local and regional transit capacity.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 07:58-08:06
“Our plan is seeking to attract top flight clinical talent while training and retraining West Virginia's own future providers through a…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 08:28-08:41
“We have to expand rural residencies, fellowships and training sites for key provider areas and offer incentives and return to home…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 08:50-09:05
“We're going to support faculty positions in community and technical colleges.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 09:15-09:21
“Our next initiative focused, something we call Smart Care Catalyst. This is an effort to help some of our providers and our hospitals and…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 10:08-10:20
“Value based care... allows them to be better positioned to deal with changes that may be on the horizon.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 10:29-32:38
“We have to change how we pay for health care. That's important that we reduce cost. Instead of just paying for how many services are…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 10:45-10:59
“Our fifth focus involves the creation of a Health to Prosperity pipeline that's going to connect recovery readiness and employment programs…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 11:13-11:26
“This is going to include expanding health to work initiatives, recovery to work initiatives with care, job coaching and employment support.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 11:33-11:42
“Our sixth initiative, we're calling it our Food as Medicine focus.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 12:11-12:17
“We're going to be focusing on support for moms and infants and youth and the elderly as part of our chronic disease prevention initiatives.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 12:42-12:52
“Finally, we have an initiative called HealthTech Appalachia. This is really an exciting opportunity because it's trying to grow new health…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 13:35-13:47
“Some of the work being done at WVU and Marshall and the O School is pretty unbelievable.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 14:09-14:15
“We did a statewide RFI where we generated nearly 3,000 pages of content and insights.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 15:23-15:31
“We convened three roundtables with over three dozen organizations, hosted a Teletown hall with more than 17,000 residents attending.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 15:36-15:48
“We structured our application to have sustainability and we emphasize accessibility and affordability.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 15:53-16:02
“I've also designated our Department of Health to take a lead in implementing this plan.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 16:40-16:46
“We know that the input you've put in has been critical and your ongoing engagement is actually going to be critical to the success of the…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 17:29-17:38
“We intend to publish the application. We'll let you know of that date as it's available.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 18:16-18:23
“We have over 40 letters of support from folks because I think people know this is a chance to truly be transformative.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 19:43-19:52
“I believe West Virginia is going to be the model for the country in terms of how we're doing it.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 19:52-19:58
“If ever there's a state that will benefit from the Rural Transformation Fund, it's West Virginia.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 19:59-20:06
“We're going to put in place thoughtful solutions that then could be used to turn the key, unlocking opportunities to grow economically.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 20:20-20:29
“We plan to keep building on those efforts and leveraging technology investments in workforce and our people.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 20:40-20:47
“You might be able to multiply that economic effect on your GDP by two and a half percent or more.”
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“We had some real challenges in terms of healthcare outcomes.”
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“The public at large had a great deal of influence in the process [of proposal submissions].”
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“We might be able to get some of the people who are currently on Medicaid, move them over on the commercial side.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 32:07-32:13
“We're also in this application trying to anticipate that we want to help our healthcare providers and systems operate in the most effective…”
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“It's putting the consumer first at the equation.”
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Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 35:21-35:27
“There are 36 states with our Vendors who we're kind of in the same position of, in terms of the inability to just load up the card.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 36:02-36:11
“I've already committed a minimum of $14 million in terms of money to the food banks and to the food pantries.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 36:34-36:43
“Tomorrow I'm going to release another 2 1/2 million dollars as we move this up toward the 14 million of commitment.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 36:48-36:57
“Every one of the 36 states is in the same boat, so that it's not feasible right now [to fund SNAP directly].”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces West Virginia's Application For Rural Health Transformation Program | Uploaded November 5, 2025 | 38:11-38:24