BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital (PCH) hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday (June 5) for its new Bluefield Campus, a transformative $25 million expansion and renovation project that will significantly enhance emergency, outpatient, imaging, and behavioral health services for southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia.

The Bluefield Campus project includes a 24,000-square-foot addition and an 18,000-square-foot renovation to an existing facility that currently houses PCH’s 64-bed behavioral health hospital. The expansion will consolidate PCH’s Bluefield services into a single, purpose-built facility designed to be highly visible from Route 460, the main traffic artery through Mercer County.

“As someone who grew up in this region, I know firsthand how

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