For more than two years, the Wheeling area has been without a hospital-based inpatient psychiatric and behavioral health facility for children and adolescents. When Ohio Valley Medical Center closed its doors in 2019, so did the former Robert C. Byrd Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center.
Yet that health care gap for youth soon could be filled, The Intelligencer reports. A subsidiary of the Children’s Home of Wheeling has started the process to repurpose the Byrd Center to provide inpatient psychiatric services to children and adolescents in the Northern Panhandle.
Orchard Park Hospital, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Children’s Home of Wheeling, has initiated the approval process to create a 30-bed adolescent acute care psychiatric hospital on the former Byrd Center’s grounds.
The building, constructed in 2009, is in good condition, Children’s Home Board President Tanner Russell said, while plans are underway to make certain renovations to operate as an adolescent psychiatric hospital. Read more.
