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WVU Medicine has announced $177.4 million in additional capital projects, according to Albert Wright, president and CEO of the WVU Health System.
WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright discusses the variety of improvements to be made at the Fairmont Medical Center during an event in June.
WVU Medicine has announced $177.4 million in additional capital projects, according to Albert Wright, president and CEO of the WVU Health System.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — WVU Medicine is planning to undertake more than $177 million worth of upgrade and expansion projects across its network over the next two years, according to President and CEO Albert Wright.
The bulk of the work, around $155 million, will go towards projects on the WVU Medicine main campus in Morgantown to compete Phase 3 of the WVU Hospitals’ Master Campus Plan.
Other projects include nearly $17 million to renovate Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Marshall County and nearly $6 million for projects in Keyser.
"Our job as the academic health system of the land grant university of the state of West Virginia is to provide spectacular care for folks and make reinvestments into our facilities when we can," Wright said.
WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright discusses the variety of improvements to be made at the Fairmont Medical Center during an event in June.
The projects were approved by West Virginia University Health System Board of Directors on Wednesday.
"Now that we have Board approval, you're going to see them all start this calendar year," Wright said.
The Master Campus Plan includes the backfill of the sixth floor of WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital following the opening of the new $215 million, 150-bed WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital in late September. The backfill will add adult inpatient beds and operating rooms.
Phase 3 will also include renovations to improve materials management on the fourth floor of Ruby Memorial Hospital and physician office and support space on the sixth floor of the Physician Office Center, expansion of the second-floor endoscopy suite at Ruby Memorial, and build out of a physical therapy hub at the outpatient center at University Town Centre.
In Marshall County, the operating rooms at WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital will undergo a $16.7 million renovation that will replace the HVAC system, standardize the size of the operating rooms, and add two new urology and endoscopy procedure rooms.
In Keyser, the $2.5 million clinical development of Potomac Plaza will result in the creation of an Urgent Care clinic that can be easily accessed by public transportation, a combined behavioral medicine and preventive medicine suite to allow for greater coordination of care for patients, and a specialty physician outpatient clinic to allow for the additional sharing and recruitment of specialty providers among the WVU Health System, WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital and WVU Medicine Garrett Regional Medical Center.
The Board also approved $3.2 million to create a healthcare workforce development and training center in Keyser that will provide education and training in healthcare certification programs, such as behavioral health technician, phlebotomist, community health worker, certified nursing assistant, central sterile technician and others.
Senior Staff Writer Charles Young can be reached at 304-626-1447 or cyoung@theet.com
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