NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Doctors and health care providers in Poca, WV

63 individual NPPES records list a practice address in Poca, 123rd of 377 West Virginia cities. The largest group is home health aide: 22, 35% of the city's records, against 8% across West Virginia. Page 2 of 2.

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Poca in West Virginia

  • Rank in West Virginia123rd of 377 cities by records
  • Share of the state<0.1% of West Virginia's records
  • Specialties present16 taxonomy codes
  • Top three groups71.4% of all records

Compared with West Virginia as a whole, Poca has 4.2× the state's share of home health aide records and 0.65× its share of personal care attendant records.

Providers in Poca, alphabetically

  1. Nashena SkidmoreHome Health Aide1164312989
  2. Doyle SmithHome Health Aide1710877576
  3. Heaven SmithPersonal Care Attendant1174119754
  4. Patricia SmithHome Health Aide1154296812
  5. Gina Starcher, RNGeneral Practice Registered Nurse1891542874
  6. Agnes StoverHome Health Aide1134019854
  7. Vanesa Stover, LGSWMental Health Counselor1760013783
  8. Lara Thornsbury, RNCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician1487596599
  9. Charity WhiteHome Health Aide1932938594
  10. Faith WilsonPersonal Care Attendant1508461849
  11. Tina Withrow, LPNLicensed Practical Nurse1245016674
  12. Carolyn WolfeHome Health Aide1740174358
  13. Tacy WrightPersonal Care Attendant1710573480

The largest West Virginia cities

  1. Charleston8,807
  2. Huntington6,221
  3. Morgantown6,074
  4. Barboursville3,867
  5. Beckley2,878

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How to read this directory

Poca, West Virginia appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 63 registered healthcare providers spanning 16 distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in Poca - physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, physical therapists, optometrists, psychologists, podiatrists, and every other credentialed provider type CMS tracks. It does not measure hospital beds, urgent-care capacity, or whether a given clinic is accepting new patients; it measures the pool of professionals with current NPI enrollment and a Poca practice location on file. Every figure is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES) - more than 7 million providers, maintained since May 2007, with 2024 Medicare Part D data, and, according to CMS, can be searched, compared, and traced in our methodology.

The provider mix in Poca is weighted toward Home Health Aide (22 clinicians, followed by Personal Care Attendant with 16 and Community Health Worker with 7). That distribution reflects how NPPES records specialty: providers self-select a primary taxonomy code, so a family physician who also practices geriatrics will show up under whichever NUCC code they registered first. Relative to West Virginia's population, Poca reports roughly 3.6 providers per 100,000 residents using the state-level denominator, which is a rough proxy rather than a precise access-to-care measurement; the true catchment area of any {cityName} clinician extends beyond the municipal boundary.

Of West Virginia's most common specialties, Homemaker is the most prominent one with no provider currently listing a Poca practice address, a coverage gap Poca patients typically fill by traveling to a larger nearby hub.

For Poca patients, this directory is most useful as a starting shortlist. Important: PlainDoctor is a directory of publicly available CMS government data, not a review site, a ranking, or medical advice. NPPES data is self-reported and refreshed monthly; call the practice directly to confirm the provider is still there, accepts your insurance, and is taking new patients.

For informational purposes only; this directory is not medical advice and not a substitute for checking a license. See also: how to find a doctor and how to verify one.

Common questions

How many doctors are in Poca, WV?

There are 63 registered healthcare providers in Poca, WV, covering 16 specialties. This includes physicians, dentists, therapists, and other licensed providers.

What are the most common medical specialties in Poca?

The most common specialties in Poca are Home Health Aide, Personal Care Attendant, Community Health Worker, Athletic Trainer, Driver. Home Health Aide has the most providers with 22.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov). Records are self-reported registrations, not licenses.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.