Tag: I-79

Fairmont Health Center to Open in 2017

A new clinic will soon offer a variety of healthcare services in Marion County. WVU Medicine broke ground for a new complex located right off of I-79 in Fairmont Monday.

The nearly $14 million facility is scheduled to open in the summer of 2017 and will include 39 exam rooms and three procedure rooms. Its 25,000 square feet will offer patients in the Fairmont area access to primary care, urgent care, and general and vascular surgery, among other services.

The health clinic will be owned and operated by the University Health Associates, an affiliation of WVU Medicine. UHA Chief Medical Officer Judie Charlton says the new facility will increase access to care and provide more options for patients in the area.

Appalachia Health News is a project of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, with support from the Benedum Foundation.

West Virginia Senators Seek to Name Exit After Stewart

Several West Virginia state senators want to name an Interstate 79 exit in honor of late West Virginia University football coach Bill Stewart.

The resolution introduced Tuesday would request that the state Division of Highways name Exit 153 in Monongalia County the “Coach Bill Stewart Exit.”

Stewart died of a heart attack in May 2012 at age 59.

After head coach Rich Rodriguez left for Michigan at the end of the 2007 regular season, Stewart led the Mountaineers to a surprising Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma in January 2008 and won the head coach’s job immediately afterward.

Stewart went 28-12 in three seasons. He resigned in 2011 and was replaced by Dana Holgorsen.

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