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WVU Medicine Acquires Children's Psychiatric Hospital in Wheeling
WVU Health acquired Wheeling, West Virginia-based Orchard Park Hospital on Nov. 1, according to a news release. The facility now operates as a remote campus of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital, renamed WVU Medicine Healthy Minds – Kids, and held a ribbon-cutting Nov. 9. It will continue Orchard Park's specialized behavioral and mental health care for children, with the existing care team and administrator Stacey DeGarmo remaining in place. The deal follows WVU Health's October acquisition of Independence Health System's five hospitals in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the system's broader expansion.
Why it mattersChildren's behavioral health providers and West Virginia Medicaid managed care plans may see continuity of a specialized pediatric psychiatric care site now backed by a larger health system's resources.