On Friday, July 12, 2024, Trinity Health System held a Beam Signing Ceremony at St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital, located at 48530 National Road West in St. Clairsville, Ohio.

The community was invited to be a part of history and sign their names to the final beam to be put in place on the top of the new Neighborhood Hospital.

Our thanks to the media for covering this event. You can read and watch their reports via the links below:

Herald-Star: Expansion at Trinity by Ross Gallabrese

It was just a little more than five years ago when Matt Grimshaw stood outside of Trinity Medical Center West and took part in the ceremonial groundbreaking for an expansion project at the hospital.

“It really is a leap of faith,” Grimshaw, Trinity’s president and CEO said on that March day in 2019. “But we believe we are uniquely positioned to make it happen … It has the potential to transform the health care landscape, not only for today, but for generations to come.”

Plans at the time called for the five-story, 183,000-plus-square-foot addition to be finished in two years. Things didn’t quite work out that way, for many reasons, including COVID-19.

None of that mattered Wednesday, though, when the Rev. Drake McCalister of Holy Family Catholic Church offered a blessing and the ceremonial ribbon was cut to officially open the completed patient tower project.

You can read the rest of the article here.

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WTOV: St. Clairsville celebrates new hospital progress with beam signing ceremony by Jesse Cain

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Community members were invited out for The Trinity Health System St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital beam signing ceremony on Friday to recognize the progress that has been made.

“To me, one of the true pillars of success of a city is to have healthcare,” St. Clairsville Mayor Kathryn Thalman said.

“We are bringing that right here. And let’s face it. Having a hospital here could mean the difference of life and death of getting someone in a critical situation to healthcare.”

According to the mayor, this will be the only hospital of this magnitude in the city.

You can view and read the entire report here.

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WTRF: Trinity Health System’s new Neighborhood Hospital leaves people beaming by Mary Flavin 

This hospital will include an emergency room, ten beds, two procedure rooms, and an array of health services.

“It makes the different between life and death, minutes make a different and so to be able to do this without driving another half hour or 20 minutes is huge as far as response time and recovery time for the patients.” — KELLY BETTEM, CARDIOVASCULAR SERVICE LINE DIRECTOR

“So, if you think of a full service or full-size hospital, this will be a micro hospital. We’ll have inpatient care services, laboratory services, high profile imaging services, everything that you can imagine that you would have in a hospital.” — DWAYNE RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT OF TWIN CITY MEDICAL CENTER

The signed beam will be included in the building this Thursday. The estimated timeline for this project is a year with the hopes of concluding sometime in 2025.

You can read and view the entire report here.