{"id":349283,"date":"2025-11-02T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:43:13","slug":"governor-morrisey-announces-the-sale-of-states-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349283\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Morrisey announces the sale of state\u2019s long-term care facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLESTON, <a href=\"https:\/\/W.Va\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/W.Va\">W.Va<\/a> . (WSAZ) &#8211; West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey shared today the sale of West Virginia\u2019s four state-owned long-term care facilities has been finalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The $60 million dollar sale includes Hopemont Hospital, Jackie Withrow Hospital, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center, and Lakin Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marx Development Group (MDG) will now take over ownership with MDG subsidiary Majestic Care taking over operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All employees at those four long-term care facilities were allowed to continue their employment under the new ownership while receiving the same compensation and tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MDG has also committed $80 million dollars to make major investments in West Virginia by building at least three new long-term care facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis marks an important milestone in our work to strengthen healthcare services and modernize the state\u2019s operations,\u201d said Governor Morrisey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before the sale, the state-operated facilities were running at a loss of about $6 million per year, with future costs projected to continue rising from the current level of around $40 million per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFrom the very beginning, this process has been about one thing: providing better, more consistent, and higher-quality care for West Virginians who rely on these facilities,\u201d said Governor Morrisey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSAZ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, W.Va . (WSAZ) &#8211; West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey shared today the sale of West Virginia\u2019s four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,3584,8662,67,132,68,91012,13642,91011,36806],"class_list":{"0":"post-349283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-hospitals","12":"tag-sale","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wchs","17":"tag-west-virginia","18":"tag-wowk","19":"tag-wsaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115477571602261502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}