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Wheeling Hospital to Serve Key Role for WVU Medicine as 'Regional Hub' | News, Sports, Jobs

John McCabe | Apr 7, 2021
Meet Albert Wright
Previously chief operating officer of WVU Medicine, CEO of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital
Senior-level administrator at UPMC in Pittsburgh and Ohio Health in Columbus
Master’s degree in health administration from the Ohio State University
Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Florida
Married, four children
WHEELING The wait was worth it for Albert Wright.
As president and CEO of WVU Medicine in Morgantown, the “academic health system of the land-grant university of the state of West Virginia,” Wright said it’s long been a goal of the health system to gain entry into the Northern Panhandle and Upper Ohio Valley markets. That initially came to fruition a few years ago with the acquisition of WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, and was further cemented with the addition of WVU Medicine Wetzel County Hospital. ....

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WVU Medicine – A New Day in Wheeling | News, Sports, Jobs

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Looking around Wheeling Hospital, its inclusion into the West Virginia University Health System is obvious.
The “Flying WV,” the logo synonymous with WVU, can be found prominently and abundantly. Yet, Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison said that the hospital joining the WVU team is much more than a cosmetic change. It’s a change that he feels will benefit Wheeling and the Ohio Valley immediately and well into the future.
“You’re joining a world-class academic health center and health system,” Harrison said. “As a part of that, WVU medicine will provide the resources necessary to make sure Wheeling Hospital is successful. If you look around our system, every hospital that we’ve brought in, if you look from day one and look through a three-year scope, you’ve seen growth. ....

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