West Virginia University Hospitals, Health Sciences Center to receive more than $23M in federal funding

The funding will support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, Inc., including WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, as well as an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center.

“I am excited to see the resources I directly advocated for reach WVU Hospitals and Health Science Center,” Capito said. “When I visited the brand new Children’s Hospital this past spring, I saw firsthand the standard of care being offered in the Mountain State, allowing children to stay close to home for medical treatment.

“The revolutionary Alzheimer’s and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) research taking place at RNI is already changing lives. Further buildout of their infrastructure will allow for interdisciplinary innovation, spurring new methods of treatment and prevention.

“From facility renovations to providing genetics testing and cellular analysis to studying visual impairment, I couldn’t be prouder to support WVU Hospitals’ mission of delivering researched-base quality care to West Virginians.”

Funding will be used to expand health-care facility space for patients’ treatments, medical research, and administrative areas, renovate labs and purchase new equipment at WVU Hospitals, Inc.

“We are deeply grateful to Sen. Capito for her continued support and advocacy for WVU Medicine and its hospitals, especially, in this instance, our flagship academic medical center in Morgantown, WVU Medicine Children’s, and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute,” said Albert L. Wright, Jr., president and CEO of the WVU Health System.

“We’re especially excited to expand our cytogenetics lab, the only such lab in West Virginia, by building a new, more advanced one in the former Mylan/Viatris plant, which is now home to the WVU Innovation Corporation,” Wright said. “An expanded cytogenetics lab is especially critical as we pursue National Cancer Institute designation for the WVU Cancer Institute.”

The individual CDS awards are:

• $3,500,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital — Funding will be used to support design and buildout of the surgical unit.

• $3,000,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital — Funding will be used for equipment purchasing.

• $2,000,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital — Funding will be used improve access to care for stigmatized services.

• $3,000,000 for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute — Funding will be used to support construction of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Space.

• $2,500,000 for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute — Funding will be used for administrative buildout.

• $2,500,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Cytogenetics Laboratory — Funding will be used for renovations for the first Cytogenetics lab in the West Virginia.

• $2,434,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Cytology Laboratory — Funding will be used for renovations for a cellular analysis facility.

• $3,500,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Histology Laboratory — Funding will be used for renovations for a surgical pathology laboratory.

• $1,160,000 for WVU Health Science Center Reducing Visual Impairment — Funding will be used to purchase a mass spectrometer and a transmission electron microscope.