MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — WVU Medicine officials fulfilled a promise to their colleagues and patients in the Eastern Panhandle Tuesday with the groundbreaking for a $200 million patient tower at Berkeley Medical Center.

WVU Health System President and CEO Albert Wright was on hand and talked to the Panhandle News Network.

“The bed tower is a very large building that will sit right in front of Berkeley Medical Center,” he said.

The project will add 450 additional parking spaces first, then the patient tower with 325 private patient rooms.

“When we’re done it will be the second largest hospital in the WVU Health system,” Wright said.

Construction is set to occur in phases, with the work on the parking addition beginning this fall. The patient tower could open in early 2028.

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