Cabell Huntington Hospital

The campus anchors care for West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio, with Marshall University’s schools of medicine, pharmacy, and nursing in the mix. On the same grounds you will find Hoops Family Children’s Hospital and the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center; observation nurses work adult chest-pain, COPD, asthma, and CHF protocols. Pay for RNs, including Clinical Observation, is set under the labor agreement rather than a public rate card. The hospital states that wages and benefits exceed most hospitals in the Tri-State region. Network postings describe medical coverage with a $100 deductible, dental, vision, life, a wellness discount up to $1,000 a year, vacation and sick time, ten paid holidays, and employer-funded retirement. New graduates can look to a Nurse Residency Program and to MHN tuition assistance that covers full cost at St. Mary’s School of Nursing or up to $5,000 per semester for four semesters at other schools, with a five-year RN work commitment. Day to day you chart in Cerner. Peers often praise coworker support and a community feel. The same voices also report short staffing, heavier loads, and overtime that is hard to avoid. One staff nurse called pay good and the schedule nice, and listed parking as a con. If that balance feels workable, applications run through the ADP MHN portal and stay active for two years.

Teaching-hospital setting tied to Marshall University; employer emphasis on wages and benefits competitive in the Tri-State region and on advancement via the Marshall Health Network ASPIRE path.