CHAMPION — Mercy Health officials said they are strengthening the region’s health care fabric with the 2026 winter opening of its newest facility.

The health care system hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for its Mercy Health-Champion Emergency Center and outpatient imaging center at 507 Educational Highway in front of the Trumbull Career & Technical Center.

This facility will offer 24/7 emergency care in addition to a full laboratory and phlebotomy services.

“With investments like this, we’re reinforcing our longstanding promise to care for this community with excellence, compassion and dignity,” said Char Gardiner, president of Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital. “The construction of the Mercy Health Champion Emergency Center is about more than bricks and mortar. It’s about

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