MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week federal grants to support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, including WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center.
Capito is ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and the funding came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services via Congressionally Directed Spending requests made by Capito.
Commenting on the funding, Capito said, “I am excited to see the resources I directly advocated for reach WVU Hospitals and Health Science Center. When I visited the brand new children’s hospital this past spring, I saw firsthand the standard of care being offered in the Mountain State, allowing children to stay close to home for medical treatment.”
She continued, “The revolutionary Alzheimer’s and substance use disorder research taking place at RNI is already changing lives. Further buildout of their infrastructure will allow for interdisciplinary innovation, spurring new methods of treatment and prevention. From facility renovations to providing genetics testing and cellular analysis to studying visual impairment, I couldn’t be prouder to support WVU Hospitals’ mission of delivering researched-base quality care to West Virginians.”
WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright commented, “We are deeply grateful to Sen. Capito for her continued support and advocacy for WVU Medicine and its hospitals, especially, in this instance, our flagship academic medical center in Morgantown, WVU Medicine Children’s, and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.”
The awards:
- $3,500,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s; to support design and buildout of the surgical unit.
- $3,000,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s; for equipment purchasing.
- $2,000,000 for WVU Medicine Children’s; to improve access to care for stigmatized services.
- $3,000,000 for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute; to support construction of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Space.
- $2,500,000 for RNI; for administrative buildout.
- $2,500,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Cytogenetics Laboratory; for renovations for the first Cytogenetics lab in the West Virginia.
- $2,434,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Cytology Laboratory; for renovations for a cellular analysis facility.
- $3,500,000 for the Chestnut Ridge Histology Laboratory; for renovations for a surgical pathology laboratory.
- $1,160,000 for WVU Health Science Center Reducing Visual Impairment; to purchase a mass spectrometer and a transmission electron microscope.
