Construction Update - Valley Health

War Memorial Hospital

War Memorial Hospital is a federally-designated Critical Access Hospital (CAH).

CAH Designation criteria are defined as follows: physical location in a state that has an established Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
- Program (Flex Program)
- Be located in a rural area
- Provide 24-hour emergency care services, using on-site or on-call staff
- Provide no more than 25 inpatient beds
- Have an average length of stay of 96 hours or less; and
- Be either 35 miles from another hospital or another CAH, or 15 miles away in areas with mountainous terrain or only secondary roads.
The new War Memorial Hospital will have the same bed configuration as the current hospital: 25 inpatient beds and 16 long-term care beds.

Construction Timeline & Background

Certificate of Need (CON) application approved by the West Virginia Health Care Authority in January 2010
Ground Breaking: June 2010
Project Completion: 2012
Age of current facility: 63 years
Building site: 80-acre parcel on Fairview Drive
Total Project Cost: $30 million
Finished Square Feet: Approximately 87,000

LEED Certification

Construction Team