WESTON HOSPITAL DROPS CONSTRUCTION PLANS - Facing Bigger Players

(12/08/2002)

Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital has pulled its application to build a new facility replacing a 30-year-old facility at Weston. The new 125,000 square foot hospital would have been built along Interstate 79. Hospital President and C-E-O David Shaffer says the hospital withdrew its letter of intent this week. . The letter was the first step in the Health Care Authority's Certificate of Need process. Stonewall Jackson is facing to large hospitals who want to built along the I-79 corridor, Fairmont General and United Hospital Center in Clarksburg. WVU hospitals also wants to expand beds. The Weston hospital serves a rural area reaching into Gilmer County, and has linkages for support services with Minnie Hamilton Healthcare Center in Grantsville. Shaffer says this may not be the right time to build a new hospital, considering the state's economic difficulties, but they could reapply later. .

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