Times West Virginian
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Albert Wright Jr., president and CEO of WVU Medicine, shakes hands with Gov. Jim Justice Friday in the board room of Fairmont Medical Center, where they announced a $110 million plan to rebuild the local hospital and expand it to 80 beds and more. Photo by Eric Cravey
FAIRMONTÂ â WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright Jr. announced Friday that Fairmont Medical Center will be expanding again on Locust Avenue.
Wright said WVU Medicine will invest $110 million as part of a multi-year plan to increase services and capacity at the hospital, which is a campus of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital. The plans calls for adding 40 new patient beds, operating and procedure rooms, a cancer infusion center and 30 skilled nursing beds.
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FAIRMONT â WVU Hospitals will spend approximately $4.8 million to add 32 beds to Fairmont Medical Center.
After initially reopening the hospital as a 10-bed emergency room in June 2020, the hospital has continued expanding under the WVU medicine umbrella as a campus of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital.
The West Virginia Health Care Authority approved WVU Hospitalsâ Certificate of Need application on April 2 after filing the application in November. When the expansion is complete the Locust Avenue campus will have 42 beds, according to Albert Wright Jr., president and CEO of the West Virginia University Health System.
When asked if WVU Medicine still plans to build a new 10-bed hospital off the Gateway Connector â a plan Wright announced March 13, 2020 â he said, âWeâre still working through our options. Weâre having a lot of success out at the old site, where weâre operating now.â
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