WHEELING — Medical professionals and volunteers with Project HOPE in Wheeling are redirecting a focus of their outreach services to the local shelters now that the city’s homeless encampment has been closed.

It had been estimated that as many as 70 people were staying in Wheeling’s exempted homeless encampment on the Maintenance Trail near the entrance of the Peninsula Cemetery before the city shut down the camp last week.

Before the camp closed, Project HOPE (Homeless Outreach Partnership Effort) had been making regular stops there to help bring medical services to some of the city’s most vulnerable people.

A collaboration of medical, nursing, social work, pastoral care and other health care professionals and volunteers operating under the umbrella of the Wheeling-Ohio County Health De

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