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Wheeling Hospital is negotiating a contract with WVU Medicine for physicians in the hospital's Emergency-Trauma Department, officials said Thursday.
The current contract between Wheeling Hospital and Schmacher Clinical Partners, which provides physicians to the department, has been terminated.
The intention is for WVU Medicine to hire as many of the Schmacher Clinical Partners physicians as possible.
"As we continue to further integrate our clinical services with WVU Medicine, we have terminated the contract with SCP and will be entering into a new contract with WVU Medicine to staff our ED and Hospitalist Service here at Wheeling Hospital.
The physicians currently employed by SCP will be afforded the opportunity to remain at Wheeling Hospital under the new WVU Medicine agreement," said Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison.
The Schumacher contract officially ends April 7. The hospital's Emergency-Trauma Department remains fully staffed with physicians, officials said.