| 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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