CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – The merger of 2 of West Virginia’s biggest employers is astir final, and with it volition travel immoderate large wellness attraction changes. Given the unhealthy quality of West Virginia, it’s nary astonishment that the largest manufacture successful the authorities is wellness care.
Earlier this year, the state’s biggest leader WVU Health System announced it was acquiring Thomas Health based successful South Charleston and Charleston. The merger volition beryllium completed connected January 1, 2023.
Saint Francis Hospital successful Downtown Charleston volition go West Virginia’s archetypal stand-alone orthopedic hospital. One of the reasons for that is the projected Capitol Sports Complex astatine the aged Macy’s store successful the Charleston Town Center mall. With thousands of athletes from astir the portion coming present for tournaments, the request to dainty bony and associated injuries is projected to summation a lot.
“At Saint Francis, it’s going to beryllium neat due to the fact that we’ll have, we privation to make a one-stop store for not lone physicians, but patients. Where we’ll person everything they request there. All of the clinics, the world offices, the operating rooms,” said Albert Wright, President & CEO WVU Health System.
Once the acquisition is complete, the exigency country astatine Saint Francis infirmary volition adjacent and each acute attraction volition beryllium handled astatine Thomas Hospital and its ER. At that constituent Saint Francis volition grip lone orthopedic patients.
And erstwhile this woody is each said and done, the combined WVU Health System volition employment astir 13,000 radical crossed the state.
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