Our thanks to Steve Novotney of Lede News for this outstanding report on St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new medical facility in St. Clairsville soon to be opened by Trinity Health System is an example of the new “microhospital” model in the healthcare industry that’s designed to bring the care closer to potential patients.
Plus, with approximately 60 employees that will be hired to operate the facility, the healthcare provider is expanding the number of opportunities for young professionals to remain residents in the Upper Ohio Valley, according to Trinity Health’s marketing director Laurie Labishak.
“What we will open soon in St. Clairsville is referred to as a ‘microhospital’ because there will be hospital rooms for when we have a patient who needs to be admitted for whatever reason,” she explained. “Too often, we hear that ‘there are no beds upstairs’, so these rooms will help with that situation in this area. It’s an issue nationwide; I have colleagues all over the country and we’re all struggling with the same thing.”
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