A former Roane and Calhoun man
Bernard G. Westfall has received high honors, being selected to the Order of Vandalia at West Virginia University.
The Order of Vandalia has been presented annually since 1961 to honor the most loyal servants of the university.
Westfall graduated from Spencer High School, in Spencer, and went on to graduate from WVU with two degrees - a bachelor of science in 1963 and a master of business administration in 1972.
He began his career as a science teacher in the Monongalia County schools. He then worked as an associate director of purchasing and a data processing manager at WVU before beginning his long and distinguished service to WVU Hospitals Inc.
Westfall held the titles of associate administrator for finance and systems, executive vice president, and president and CEO. One of his shining achievements during this time was overseeing the financing and construction of Ruby Memorial Hospital.
When West Virginia United Health System Inc. was formed in 1996, Westfall was named president and CEO - a position he held until 2002. Today, WVUHS is the largest health system in West Virginia.
Westfall is currently a senior consultant with Yaffe & Co., a health care consulting firm specializing in executive compensation, retirement and pension management, governance, and medical staff relations. He works with hospital boards on governance issues, physician organizations, and executive succession.
He is a member of numerous professional organizations and boards that have included chairman of the board of trustees for the West Virginia Hospital Association, chairman of the trustees for the Community United Methodist Church, director of United Bank of West Virginia and Centra Bank in Morgantown and director of the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce among many other appointments and memberships.
In addition to a number of professional presentations, he has served as an adjunct professor and instructor in WVU's Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center and Harvard University. His work has been published in Hospital Purchasing Management, Clinical Research, Hospital Pharmacy, and Trustee Magazine.
Westfall and his wife, Marion, reside in Morgantown.
He is the son of the late Edward and Wilma Dotson (Mt. Zion) Westfall of Spencer. His brothers, Edward C. Westfall Jr., and James H. Westfall, reside in Spencer, and sister Sandra Westfall Tupes resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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