Health Right CEO Gets National Award For Charitable Healthcare Work

West Virginia Health Right CEO Angie Settle has been named the 2026 Patient Advocate of the Year by the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC), a group that represents more than 1,400 clinics nationwide. 

“She still puts on the stethoscope and sees patients today, even while leading West Virginia’s oldest and largest free and charitable clinic,” read an NAFC announcement.  

Roughly half of the patients served by Health Right each year are uninsured. Others are on Medicaid or Medicare but need services or medications that aren’t covered.  

Settle said the award is a tribute to the entire team. 

“They talked about all of our impact and legislation in West Virginia and how much we’ve grown and really tried to dedicate ourselves to the plight of those in West Virginia, the working poor that are struggling so hard every day to make it,” Settle said. 

She joined West Virginia Health Right in 1997 as a family nurse practitioner and later served as clinical coordinator before becoming CEO in 2014 which serves more than 47,000 West Virginians across 35 counties each year.  

“I think if your heart’s in the right place and you stick to the mission and it’s not about awards and all that, it’s about doing the work, which is what we focus on,” Settle said.