Sheltering Arms Hospital (West Virginia)

Sheltering Arms Hospital was located at Hansford in Kanawha County, West Virginia, east of Charleston on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway along Paint Creek.

The Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia opened the hospital in 1888, under the leadership of its first bishop, the Rt.

Sheltering Arms Hospital was supported by small payroll deductions, initially 10 cents a month, from coal miners and railroad workers.

Under hospital policy, "Persons with contagious diseases, or those caused by immoral habits, not received."

Dr. Otis K. Rice donated papers from the hospital to the West Virginia state archives.