Vandalia Health Sets Sept. 29 Opening for New Harrison County Hospital, Plans Future Expansion

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Harrison County’s newest hospital is set to begin seeing patients later this month, and Vandalia Health is already planning for an expansion of the new medical campus.

Vandalia Health President and CEO Jeff Sandene said Thursday that the Vandalia Health Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital at Charles Pointe Crossing is scheduled to see its first patient Sept. 29.

Sandene provided the update during the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Business Summit at The Greenbrier, where he also outlined plans for a second phase of development that would add hospital beds, double the size of the emergency department and expand physician and outpatient services at the Bridgeport site.

The nearly $30 million hospital is located on a 17-acre property near Interstate 79 at Exit 124, next to the Menards development at Charles Pointe Crossing.

The two-story, approximately 40,000-square-foot hospital is modeled after Vandalia Health Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital in White Hall, which opened in 2022.

When the Harrison County facility opens, its first floor will include a full-service emergency department with eight treatment rooms, 10 private inpatient rooms, advanced imaging, pharmacy and laboratory services.

The second floor has been constructed as shell space, allowing Vandalia Health to expand the hospital as demand grows.

Sandene gave a clearer picture at the Business Summit of how Vandalia intends to use that space.

The planned second phase would add inpatient beds and double the size of the emergency department. Vandalia also intends to further develop the 17-acre property into a broader ambulatory medical campus as additional physicians are recruited to the area.

“This is a multi-phase approach,” Sandene said.

The opening will mark the latest step in a project that dates back to 2022, when Mon Health System sought state approval to build a small-format hospital serving Harrison County. The project later moved into construction, with hospital and community leaders holding a formal groundbreaking in June 2025.

Small-format hospitals provide many of the services associated with larger hospitals, including emergency care, inpatient treatment, diagnostic imaging and laboratory services, but in a smaller facility intended to provide care closer to the communities it serves.

The Harrison County hospital is part of a much larger period of growth for Vandalia Health.

Sandene said the health system has grown from four hospitals to 17 over the past four years and expects to have 18 hospitals by the end of 2026. Vandalia is also expected to employ more than 14,600 people and include more than 2,000 providers and 220 outpatient locations across its footprint.

The system is currently undertaking approximately $264 million in construction projects, according to Sandene. Those projects are supporting more than 1,300 construction jobs and are expected to result in approximately 500 long-term jobs in West Virginia when completed in 2027.

Vandalia’s expansion in north-central West Virginia also includes Grafton City Hospital, which officially became a full member of Vandalia Health on Sept. 1. Sandene said the health system is making an initial $5 million investment in infrastructure and clinical services at the Taylor County hospital.

For Harrison County, however, the immediate milestone comes Sept. 29.

After years of planning and construction, the new hospital at Charles Pointe Crossing is preparing to open its doors, while Vandalia is already looking toward the next phase of growth at the site.