Guests celebrated the past, present and future of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital on Saturday during a gala event honoring the hospital’s 175th anniversary at Wheeling Park’s White Palace.

As those guests entered the White Palace and moved from the main floor to the banquet hall upstairs, they walked through a time capsule of the hospital’s existence. The main floor housed the hospital’s past, shown in pictures and artifacts like historical uniforms and other memorabilia.

As they moved upstairs, they learned more about the hospital’s current work as the medical epicenter of the Ohio Valley, as well as what is on the horizon.

“We wanted to do something that really brought in the past, where we’ve come from as the oldest hospital in the state, founded in the state of Virginia,” said WVU Me

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