ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — St. C. will soon be home to a new WVU Medicine hospital, the health system announced Thursday at the St. Clairsville Chamber of Commerce dinner.
The announcement comes less than a year after Trinity Health Systems opened a neighborhood hospital on St. Clairsville’s west side, adding a second inpatient option to a community that until recently had none.
The facility, projected to cost more than $50 million, could open within 16 months pending regulatory approval. Officials said the expansion is driven by the large number of Ohio patients already relying on WVU Medicine for care. No information was immediately available on where in St. Clairsville the hospital would be located.
WVU Medicine is West Virginia’s largest health system and operates hospitals across the Ohio Valley, including Wheeling Hospital, Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, Barnesville Hospital in Barnesville and Harrison Community Hospital in Cadiz. In Belmont County, the system already runs outpatient clinics in Bellaire and Morristown, as well as the St. Clairsville Health Center and specialty clinics in St. Clairsville.
