PCH celebrates affiliation with WVU Medicine Children's
princeton – Confetti flew and families cheered Wednesday for new affiliation bringing health care services closer to the region's many children.
An outdoor ceremony celebrated the new affiliation between WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton and WVU Medicine Children's in Morgantown.
Administrators from both hospitals greeted guests to the celebration in Princeton Community Hospital's main parking lot. Children and their families were meeting the WVU Mountaineer, WVU Children's mascot Musket and Atlas, the WVU Children's therapy dog, as well as members of the Mercer County Sheriff's Department and Tazewell County Sheriff's Office and services with the City of Princeton.
'Thank you all for being here. We're super excited about today,' said Karen Bowling, president and CEO of Princeton Community Hospital. 'We've been planning this for a couple of months with the folks from the children's hospital, and I consider this the next monumental step as we continue to expand services here at WVU Medicine PCH. Our goal is to serve people locally, close to home with the best care possible. And as we affiliate with the children's hospital, this gives us a great opportunity to continue to expand what we currently do here.'
Dr. Michael Grace, Children's president and CEO, spoke about the benefits of working with WVU Medicine Children's.
'Our goal at WVU Medicine is to make sure that we are providing world-class care close to home,' Grace told the onlookers. 'And to do that, we need partnerships like what we're doing here today in Princeton. Our team has worked tirelessly, continuously expanding our reach to children and expectant mothers that need us. They don't have to travel hours from Princeton, Mercer County to Morgantown for that care. One of my favorite sayings, one of the things I'm proud of most at WVU Medicine, I like to say that we are a blower, not a vacuum. We want to bring the services to the communities. We don't necessarily want to be taking patients from communities to Morgantown. We want to provide the care here.'
Telemedicine services and access to medical specialists in Morgantown are among the assets the affiliation provides to the region's children and families, said Amy Webb, Children's chief administrative officer.
'We have a saying that WVU Medicine Children's is not just in Morgantown,' she said. 'Every inpatient, every outpatient, it's just WVU Medicine Children's family getting bigger. It's celebrations like this that I love because one of the things we talk about is hope. Every time we expand our reach, we hope that we are bringing hope to those families that are having a really difficult time.'
With a count and a colorful shower from confetti tubes offered to the guests, the new WVU Medicine Children's sign on the hospital was unveiled.
Representatives of the PCH Pediatrics Clinic, PCH Emergency Department/Always Ready for Kids, PCH Women's Center, WVU Telemedicine Clinic and WVU Speech and Occupational Therapy were at the celebration to share information about child care options with local families.
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