Patients of Welch Community Hospital in Welch, W.Va. will have greater access to specialized care and other critical healthcare services under a plan to have the 65-bed, state-managed, directed, and controlled acute care hospital join the WVU Medicine network of hospitals, clinics, and physician practices.
That plan will take a crucial step toward realization when officials from the WVU Health System, the State of West Virginia, and McDowell County approve and sign in the coming weeks a letter of intent for the Hospital to join the WVU Health System by Dec. 31. Final closing of the transaction is contingent upon certain board and regulatory approvals.
State officials will also begin the process to identify long-term care providers to which the state could transfer the hospital’s 59-bed long-term care unit. Read more.
