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Photo by Eric Ayres â The Education and Administration Building on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus is being targeted as a potential site for a future Engineering and Manufacturing Center to train and educate engineering students from Bluefield State College.
WHEELING Bluefield State College President Robin Capehart on Tuesday said the college is looking to fill a “critical” need for engineering technology programs in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle, and bringing a proposed Engineering and Manufacturing Center to a former hospital campus in Wheeling will do just that.
Capehart met with Wheeling city officials Tuesday during city council’s first meeting of 2021.
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File Photo by Scott McCloskey â Crews from Panhandle Cleaning and Restoration and the West Virginia Division of Highways clean one of the former homeless encampments along Wheeling Creek in October.
WHEELING Springtime was a tumultuous time for the Ohio Valley, as the worst effects of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic set in, alongside the start of what would be a several-month struggle concerning Wheeling’s homeless population.
In mid-April, the city had begun setting out to dismantle several encampments around Tunnel Green, which city manager Robert Herron had said was in response to several complaints to the city about crimes reports of vandalism and theft, sometimes to the equipment of construction crews who were working on Interstate 70.
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On December 22, CMS announced the 16 hospitals awarded Medicare-funded DGME and IME positions through Round 16 of the Affordable Care Act’s Section 5506 slot redistribution program. Round 16 redistributed 574.82 DGME and 556.81 IME FTE cap slots from Hahnemann University Hospital, which closed during the summer of 2019.
Section 5506 of the ACA requires CMS to implement the closed hospital residency slot redistribution program. Under the program, CMS is required to take all of the DGME and IME residency slots from hospitals that closed on or after March 23, 2008, and to permanently redistribute them according to certain criteria.
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Photo by Scott McCloskey â The former OVMC property is now in the possession of the City of Wheeling, after the city council voted to purchase it this past summer.
WHEELING One of the most ambitious undertakings in Wheeling’s recent history took place this summer when city council acquired the former Ohio Valley Medical Center property.
During the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, city leaders had been working with the owners of the OVMC property along with state and federal officials to see if the vacant hospital campus could be used in the event a surge in cases of the virus would cause local hospitals to exceed their capacity. After it was determined those concerns would not likely be realized and the facility would not be needed for such an emergency backup scenario, city leaders continued to explore the possibility of acquiring the property.
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BELLAIRE – Homeless shelters in the Ohio Valley helped ensure dozens of people in need had a warm place to sleep and an enjoyable Christmas day this year.
The Bellaire Salvation Army provided a hot holiday meal to nearly 30 people in need on Christmas day, along with presents for adults and children to open Christmas morning.
Major Louis Patrick said the shelter had 29 residents call the shelter home for Christmas this year. At around 10 a.m. Friday morning, guests at the shelter began their holiday by unwrapping gifts. The gifts were provided to residents through donations collected by the Salvation Army.