{"id":589188,"date":"2026-04-17T05:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:47:20","slug":"wright-wvu-medicine-trying-to-build-breadth-and-depth-with-new-round-of-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589188\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright: WVU Medicine trying to build “breadth and depth” with new round of investments"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2014 The West Virginia University Health System Board of Directors has approved a plan to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into healthcare facilities in West Virginia and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n

\"\"Albert Wright<\/p>\n

WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright said they want to focus on and improve the level of and access to care across their system. The improvements are planned for several sites in West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really trying to build breadth and depth of clinical services and clinical access around the state,\u201d Wright said Thursday during an appearance on MetroNews \u201cTalkline.\u201d \u201cThis is the third year in a row we\u2019ve batched clinical investments across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The largest investment will be the $135 million new patient tower at the Camden Clark Hospital in Parkersburg. The project increases inpatient bed capacity from 260 to 300 and begins the transitions to all private rooms. Four additional surgical suites will be added along with specific floors for women and children. The new facility will also include private labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum rooms and the addition of 450 new parking spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hospital with great history, but some of the hospital floors there are truly what we would have considered wards back in the day,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n

Wright noted the many changes in the health care delivery system in the last decade for the northern panhandle. Due to the changes, they\u2019ll build a $56 million small hospital in St. Clairsville, Ohio that will be a branch of the Wheeling Hospital that is expected to open next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just made the decision to consolidate a lot of our outpatient offices on the Ohio side,\u201d Wright said. \u201cWe\u2019ll build a small community hospital where we\u2019ll have all of our clinical services\u2014imaging\u2014and we\u2019ll have a great emergency department and a small inpatient unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Fairmont, WVU Medicine has already invested 120 million since the closure of the old Fairmont Medical Center in 2020. The plan includes a $68 million investment to completely demolish the 1939 building and replace it with a new up-to-date structure.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Michael Grace<\/p>\n

\u201cPhase III involves taking that building down and replacing it with a three-story building that will house several different things but most importantly expanding our ambulatory care presence in the Fairmont community,\u201d Michael Grace, president and CEO of WVU Hospitals and COO of the WVU Health System, said on WAJR\u2019s \u201cTalk of the Town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cancer treatment options are going to be added at the Garrett Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Maryland, and in Weirton. The Weirton Medical Center will be the site of a new $20.1 million Cancer Center, and in Oakland they plan to build a $15 million three-story Radiation Oncology Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll add radiation oncology in Weirton Medical Center,\u201d Grace said. \u201cAnother example will be the addition of radiation oncology also to Garrett Regional Medical Center in Maryland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other projects include a $2.5 million orthopedic suite at the Potomac Valley Hospital, a new medical office building at the Princeton Community Hospital, and nearly $13 million at Thomas Hospitals in South Charleston for a surgical intensive care unit and renovations to support nuclear medicine.<\/p>\n

The projects will be financed with a combination of cash, credit and possibly bonds,\u201d Grace said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2014 The West Virginia University Health System Board of Directors has approved a plan to invest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-589188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}