West Virginia University is expanding its Ruby Memorial Hospital and Health Sciences Campus in Morgantown with the construction of a new North/Northwest Tower. The eight-story addition will include 81 beds, six operating rooms, a new ICU and pediatric ICU, conference rooms, a pharmacy and lab, and sleeping rooms for on-call physicians. The North/Northwest Tower is slated for occupancy in October 2005.
Also under construction is a technologically advanced learning and library center (which will include a national education center for positron emissions tomography diagnosis) that will open in August 2006. Two more projects will begin construction in November 2005. The new Northwest Pavilion will house cardiology, neurology/neurosurgery, oncology, cardiopulmonary and rehabilitation services; and the Cancer Center and oncology clinic will be expanded by 60,000 sf.
Also planned for construction is the $30-million Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, a research institute expected to open in 2007. Additionally, a biomedical sciences research building is in the planning stages. These projects at West Virginia University's Ruby Memorial Hospital and Health Sciences Campus amount to approximately a $150 million capital investment.
