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03-04-2025
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Mon Health planning to break ground on new Harrison Neighborhood Hospital next week
BRIDGEPORT, (WBOY) — President and CEO of Mon Health and Davis Health Systems David Goldberg attended Wednesday's Harrison County Commission meeting to publicly share plans regarding a new Mon Health hospital coming to Harrison County. In 2022, Mon Health announced it was approved for a Certificate of Need to build a 'small format hospital,' which Goldberg says will be very similar to the Mon Health Marion Neighborhood Hospital in White Hall. 'This'll be a 10-bed medical hospital with an eight-bay emergency room,' said Goldberg. 'It'll have on-site radiology, cat scan, MRI, have the ability for x-ray. It'll have all the medical services that you would have in a medical hospital.' Goldberg told 12 News that Mon Health is planning to break ground on construction this coming Monday, April 7 as they've attained the necessary building permit from the City of Bridgeport. The hospital will be in the Charles Pointe plaza, adjacent to the Menard's hardware store, and is expected to be complete in the next year to year-and-a-half. Many Bridgeport workers sign petition supporting city manager 'Our project is about a little over a $30-million budget to be able to build the building,' said Goldberg. 'It'll be two stories: first story will be the hospital, second story will be a shelled in space for us to use in the future for further clinical or administrative duties.' Mon Health conducted a needs analysis a couple of years ago, and Goldberg said the results showed that Harrison County has grown significantly and continues to do do. 'The local emergency room, as well as our Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital emergency room has seen more and room Harrison County residents needing service,' he added. Goldberg describes himself as a 'West Virginian by choice,' stating that he moved to West Virginia for undergrad and has remained in the Mountain State, bringing his family here. 'It's personal to me, no patient should have to wait for care,' said Goldberg. 'A patient's urgency or emergency is our urgency or emergency. So we wanna make sure we have the resources in place that can be financially viable, meet community need, provide services the community needs and grow with the community as they need us to.' Goldberg said that Mon Health see upwards of 15,000 emergency room visits at its Marion County facility. 'We're keeping patients there, we monitor those beds for cardiac care. We'll do the same here in Harrison County,' he added. Goldberg said that they expect the Mon Health Harrison Neighborhood Hospital to get busy very quickly because it's a growing community that deserves to have choice in healthcare. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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27-03-2025
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Hospital Association, Mon Health oppose new micro-hospital Certificate of Need bill
Mar. 26—dbeard @ MORGANTOWN — While the governor's bill to repeal the Certificate of Need process died in February, some delegates are making a stab at doing away with CON for what they term micro-hospitals. And as with the prior bill, the West Virginia Hospital Association and Mon Health oppose this one. The House Health Committee held its informational hearing on HB 3487 on Tuesday. It would eliminate from CON requirements construction or acquisition of a small format or micro-hospital owned by a system with one or more existing licensed hospitals in the state. The new facility would have to be located to increase care capacity without jeopardizing any nearby critical access hospitals. It could include up to 25 in-patient beds, up to 25 emergency room beds (there was confusion if the bill meant 25 total or 50 beds total, and the bill sponsor wasn't sure but guessed 50), a CT scanner, an MRI scanner and other services. The cost could not exceed $100 million. Lead sponsor Wayne Clark, R-Jefferson, said this is the third year they've tried to move this bill. The Eastern Panhandle has a bed shortage, with just WVU Medicine's critical access Jefferson Medical Center and WVUM's 160-bed Berkeley Medical Center serving 250, 000 people. "Many of us that live in border states have to go out of state for our services, " he said. In his area, the go to Maryland and Virginia. The bill, he said, would expand local care, bring more providers into the state, and keep money in the state that's going elsewhere. Jim Kaufman, president and CEO of the WVHA, explained their opposition. The effect of the bill, he said, would be to eliminate CON altogether. Under legislation passed two years ago, a company could build a micro-hospital then immediately expand to 1, 000 beds without a CON. The average critical access hospital (located in a rural area either more than 35 miles from the nearest hospital or more than 15 miles in areas with mountainous terrain or only secondary roads ; maintain no more than 25 inpatient beds that can be used for either inpatient or swing-bed services ; and furnish 24-hour emergency care services seven days a week) provides 90 % of its services on an outpatient basis and can expand those services without a CON, he said. The sometimes testy questioning by Eastern Panhandle delegates focused on beds versus services. The delegate maintained that the bill will expand care in the panhandle. Kaufman maintained that systems must make business decisions based on various factors. They could expand services without beds — as WVUM is planning at Jefferson, without affecting federally established critical access status. They could add beds to a critical access hospital and lose the increased Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements in exchange for volume. Or they could — as Mon Health did in Marion and Harrison counties — obtain CONs to build new small-format hospitals. Or they could build another critical access hospital. Part of the decision, he said. Would hinge on the payer makeup — how much money comes from the government and how much from commercial insurance. The panhandle delegates argued that more facilities is better. Kaufman countered that existing facilities have a responsibility to remain economically viable in order to go on offering care. Mon Health comments Asked for thoughts on this bill, David Goldberg, president and CEO of Mon Health System and Davis Health System — Vandalia Health Northern Region, and executive vice president of Vandalia Health, told The Dominion Post, "A small-format hospital — some say micro-hospital — is a hospital. It meets all Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) licensure requirements, state rules and regulations, and life safety standards expected of a hospital. "We have a successful demonstration model with Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital and the soon-to-be-opened Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital, " he said. "Both went through the CON process and faced no opposition or issues in receiving state approval. No one should be exempt from following the state process. Apply and prove the feasibility and need. "We did, demonstrating to both the community we serve and the state the need and the justified rationale for its approval, " Goldberg said. "Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital is recognized by Becker's Healthcare as the fastest ER in the state and among the top 10 in the country. We have had no infections or hospital-acquired conditions since opening and served 15, 000 ER patients in 2024. We support maintaining the laws as written, and this form of hospital should be held to the same standards as those applied by the federal government for a licensed hospital." WVU Medicine did not wish to comment at this time. HB 3487 on the committee's Thursday agenda for markup and passage for recommendation to the full House. It would need to pass out of the House to the Senate by April 2, Crossover Day, the 50th day of the session. when bills need to leave their house of origin.
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13-03-2025
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Mon Commission, Mon Health System agree to property swap
Mar. 12—MORGANTOWN — For nearly 30 years it was the nerve center of Monongalia County's emergency response system. Now, the.82-acre property at 74 Mon General Drive is going back to its original owner. The Monongalia County Commission finalized a three-way agreement Wednesday that will return the former home of MECCA 911 to the Monongalia Health System. In return, Mon Health will convey four units in the condominiumized Heritage Professional Building, at 1197 Van Voorhis Rd., to the Monongalia County Building Commission. The building commission will sell the units and pass the proceeds on to the county commission. "So, we're getting something out of a building that we're no longer using. The best use of it would be the Mon Health complex, so it's kind of a win-win situation, " Commissioner Sean Sikora said. The Mon General Drive property was deeded to the Monongalia County Building Commission by Mon General Hospital in 1996 for the specific purpose of building a new 911 call center. Over the following year, the building commission bonded approximately $700, 000 to construct the roughly 5, 360 square-foot, disaster proof 911 facility, which it then leased to the county commission to satisfy payment of the bonds. One of the stipulations of the 1996 deed transfer is that Mon General would retain the right of first refusal on the property. When Monongalia County opened its new state-of-the-art MECCA 911 facility in the Morgantown Industrial Park last year, Mon Health System President and CEO David Goldberg inquired about bringing the property back into the hospital system. "I think it served its purpose well over the years, but it was outgrown. Certainly with their departure, we find that we could use that building as well. We're growing and it would serve a great purpose, " Mon Health Chief Legal Officer Ed Phillips told the commission. The commissioners noted the county was only interested in recouping tax dollars spent on the old 911 building, not the value of the land. "We agreed that you had given us the property, so we were just looking for something for that building that we put on it, " Sikora said. "It was just trying to get to that amount so we're doing our due diligence for our citizens, but also acknowledging the generous gift of the land years ago." According to information available through the county's GIS parcel viewer, the land was most recently appraised at $218, 300 and the building at $480, 900. It was one of several properties to benefit from significant infrastructure improvements when the $4.1 million Mon General Drive access road was completed in 2013. The road was the first project in the Monongalia County Development District (TIF) No. 3, also known as the Maple Drive TIF. Monongalia County Administrator Rennetta McClure said the four Van Voorhis Road units to be conveyed to the Monongalia County Building Commission come with an interest share in the surrounding parcel to include parking. In other news from Wednesday's meeting, the commission moved two properties — 3376 Stewartstown Road and 5172 Earl L. Core Road — to the county's complaint stage at the request of the Monongalia County Abandoned & Dilapidated Property Enforcement Agency.
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13-02-2025
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Scam alert: phone calls pretending to be Mon Health Medical Center
Feb. 12—MORGANTOWN — The Mon Health Medical Center Privacy and Security team has been alerted that local community members have received phone calls appearing to come from Mon Health's main number — 304-598-1200 — asking for Medicare and personal health information. These calls are not from Mon Health but from bad actors using a technique called "phone call spoofing " to impersonate health care providers, Mon Health said. Caller ID spoofing allows scammers to manipulate the phone number displayed on your caller ID, making it appear as though the call is from a trusted source. In this case, the bad actors are making their calls look like they are coming from Mon Health to gain your trust and obtain sensitive information. How to protect yourself: — Do not share personal or financial information over the phone unless you are certain of the caller's identity. — Mon Health will never call to ask for your Medicare number or personal health information over the phone. — Hang up and verify by calling Mon Health Medical Center directly at 304-598-1200 if you receive a suspicious call. — Report suspicious calls to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at /calls.
