The Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust has provided a $50 million gift to WVU Medicine for the development of its cancer hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
The Hazel Ruby McQuain Comprehensive Cancer Hospital of the WVU Cancer Institute will be a multi-story building that specializes in cancer surgeries, treatments, therapies and clinical trials. It will include inpatient surgical suites, procedural rooms, inpatient rooms for overnight or extended stays, outpatient clinics and an outpatient pharmacy.
"This continues Hazel Ruby McQuain's desire and vision to develop a full-service medical campus and complex in Morgantown that serves as the state's flagship academic medical center," Albert Wright Jr., president and CEO of the WVU Health, said in an April 2 news release. "On one end, we now have a full-service children's hospital; on the opposite end, we will have a full-service cancer hospital — two bookends that will be roughly the same size, scale and scope."
The hospital will be a key part of the WVU Cancer Institute as it pursues National Cancer Institute designation. Last June, the State of West Virginia provided the institute with a $50 million supplemental appropriation in support of NCI designation — a process that takes between five and seven years.
The gift was made through the WVU Foundation, the nonprofit that receives and administers private donations on behalf of the university and its affiliates.