CHARLES POINTE, W.Va. — Mon Health System, a member of the Vandalia Health network, has begun construction on the latest small-format hospital, similar to the Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital in White Hall.
On WAJR’s “Talk of the Town,” Mon Health President and CEO and executive vice president of Vandalia Health David Goldberg said the new location in Charles Pointe Crossing near Menards will be modeled after the successful venture in Marion County that has been in operation for about three years.
“There have been 15,000 emergency room visits there over the past year,” Goldberg said. “We just got a report that there have been more than 1,200 days since we’ve had any kind of hospital-acquired infection, and we’re in the top tenth percentile in the country related to patient experience.”
A combination of inflation and construction circumstances will push the cost of the Harrison County facility to close to $30 million, while the Marion County facility came in a little more than $20 million. In White Hall, the project started in an existing structure, and the Harrison County project will start from scratch.
“We bought a building in the Middletown Commons area that was already four-walls established,” Goldberg said. “So, we didn’t have to rebuild the outside structure, so with that it will be a little more expensive.”
The first floor of the new Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital will have an emergency room with eight beds, board-certified physicians, and comprehensive inpatient care, including 10 private inpatient rooms. The second floor will not be finished and will serve as additional space for future expansion.
“We have a lab on-site, a pharmacy on-site for patient use, and we have full radiology—MRI, CT, x-ray, ultrasound, and echocardiogram,” Goldberg said.
Patients will have access to telehealth at the facility and all of the specialty care and services offered across the health system. The brief history of the Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital has proven the small-format model can offer the same type of care offered at larger hospitals.
“We now do infusions—not chemotherapy, but for those who are on an infusion treatment, we do that there at the Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital, and that will come to the Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital,” Goldberg said.
Goldberg said available services are always being evaluated, and changes are focused on improving convenience and the patient experience. Those evaluations are done across the entire system by looking at actual patient experiences and input from staff.
“We look at the data on why people leave one community and come to Mon Health Medical Center. We see why they’re leaving and for what care, and then we offer that in the community close to home,” Goldberg said. “We’ve been doing that since I got here, and we’ll continue to do that.”