Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration Donates $150K To New WVU Medicine Golisano Childrens Outpatient Clinic

Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration and the Contraguerro family have been longtime staunch supporters of WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s. Their latest gift to the organization will make a big difference right in their backyard.

Members of the Contraguerro family joined WVU Medicine officials Wednesday at the site of the future WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Robert Sonneborn Family Pediatric Outpatient Center on the campus of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital to present a $150,000 donation on behalf of Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration that will go toward the new outpatient center. With that gift, Panhandle will sponsor the new center’s reception area.

“To have this facility being built right here in the Ohio Valley that our children will be able to come here and have a facility designed for children … there are so many benefits to having this facility separate from the main hospital,” said Panhandle Vice President Robert Contraguerro Jr. “The training is different. The staff is different. The way they decorate it makes them feel more at home.”

The new outpatient center, with construction scheduled to finish around March 2027, will feature 37 exam rooms, an after-hours clinic, pediatric lab and imaging services, separate entrances for well and sick visits, and Austin's Playroom, established by the Mario Lemieux Foundation for young patients and their families feel more at ease during medical visits.

WVU Medicine North Region President Douglass Harrison said this donation from Panhandle is another example of the generous and giving hearts of the Contraguerro family and Panhandle’s dedication to helping the Ohio Valley community.

“I think their name speaks for itself,” Harrison said. “They’re synonymous with the Wheeling area and to be in business for that long, I thinks that speaks volumes for who they are as people as well. I couldn’t be more thankful to have them as partners, and to have them anchored in this community is phenomenal.”

Multiple generations of the Contraguerro family will be able to participate in helping the new outpatient center. Among the features of the reception area will be the handprints of all 17 of the Contraguerro family grandchildren.

“The whole family is going to be involved in the growth of this facility,” Contraguerro said, “and the growth of what WVU Medicine is doing for the Ohio Valley, the state and even Ohio and Pennsylvania.

“What the health system has done to bring up our healthcare … the facilities are nice and all the doctors and staff they have are second to none,” he added. “When you talk about the people they’re recruiting to come to the state of West Virginia to give care here, you don’t have to go anywhere else.”