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Leading the way for rural health about The Centers mission is twofold to improve the health of West Virginians and strengthen West Virginias health care delivery system. The Center has identified two distinct approaches to improving health and health care in West Virginia. Each of the Centers programs work to define the linkages between both health and health care and economic development. Businesses are unlikely to locate in communities where their employees and families do not have local access to health care services thus health care is part of the economic infrastructure needed in communities to attract and retain businesses and jobs.