CHARLESTON, W.Va. — WVU Medicine says the St. Francis Hospital Emergency Room Department successful downtown Charleston volition adjacent adjacent period and beryllium moved to Thomas Hospital successful South Charleston.
St. Francis Hospital (WVU Medicine)Officials said the determination volition wide the mode for St. Francis to go what’s being described arsenic “the state’s archetypal full-service and broad orthopaedic hospital.”
WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright, who besides serves arsenic the interim president and CEO of Thomas Health, said Friday the exigency country volition adjacent Feb. 1. He said that volition assistance wide the mode for the translation astatine St. Francis.
“This represents a tremendous accidental to make a best-in-class, full-service orthopaedic infirmary for the Charleston country and the confederate portion of West Virginia,” Wright said. “Patients tin inactive person the prime exigency attraction they person travel to cognize and spot astatine Saint Francis connected our Thomas field successful South Charleston.”
Plans for the orthopaedic infirmary astatine St. Francis see inpatient and outpatient services, carnal therapy, occupational therapy and skilled nursing.
“This volition go a genuinely unsocial plus for the portion and complement the outstanding orthopaedic teams that service our main field successful Morgantown and our assemblage hospitals crossed the authorities and region,” Wright said.
Friday’s announcement said the One Day Surgery Center adjacent to St. Francis connected Donnally Street volition proceed to connection outpatient country options.
The Thomas Health System precocious became afloat members of WVU Medicine.
St. Francis served arsenic an overflow infirmary during the tallness of the pandemic.
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