Membership
INFORMATION FOR 2026 MEMBERSHIP
The West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees exists to assist you to improve patient care by identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical conflicts that occur in your health care setting. As described below, we provide multiple services to help you.
To access these services, I invite you to become a member or renew your membership in the West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees (WVNEC) for 2026. WVNEC educational offerings enable you and your staff to increase patient, family, and staff satisfaction; are an antidote against staff moral distress and burnout; and prepare you to proactively address issues before they escalate to legal action.
In 2026 membership in WVNEC will provide you with the following benefits:
- Education on how to respond to the common reasons for ethics consultation
- Information on relevant West Virginia health care law for patient care
- A tertiary ethics consultation service of experienced ethics consultants to assist you to resolve thorny ethical issues in patient care in your setting.
- A highly rated and very well-attended quarterly case-based webinar series
- A membership discount for all WVNEC educational programs.
- A quarterly e-newsletter that discusses complex ethical cases and informs members of the latest developments in clinical medical ethics.
WVNEC is vibrant and interactive. If you have let your membership lapse, this is the year to rejoin WVNEC. If you have never been a WVNEC member, please strongly consider becoming one this year. If you have been a faithful WVNEC member, thank you and please continue to be one!
How to Join
The yearly membership dues will be $150 for institutions with annual gross revenues of less than $500,000 per year, $250 for those institutions with $600,000 to $5,000,000 per year, and $350 for those institutions in excess of $5,000,000 annual gross revenues. Individual membership will be $25. If you wish to join the Network for 2026, please completing an Institutional Membership Form or an Individual Membership Form and send along with your check payable to the West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees.