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Wellness Center members fill the audience at the Byrd Health Sciences Center at Berkeley Medical Center for an informational session about the closing of the Wellness Center and a partnership with Onelife Fitness in August.
Wellness Center members fill the audience at the Byrd Health Sciences Center at Berkeley Medical Center for an informational session about the closing of the Wellness Center and a partnership with Onelife Fitness in August.
MARTINSBURG – When the Berkeley Medical Center officially announced a partnership with Onelife Fitness and the closure of the Wellness Center on the hospital’s campus, the community immediately met the change with concern.
The announcement was made in early August via a letter to Wellness Center members, and a social media group fighting to keep the center opened quickly gained traction, with hundreds of people joining.
The outcry led to an informational meeting between community members and representatives of WVU Hospitals-East and Onelife Fitness, a meeting where both sides of the issue were supposed to be heard.
From the business and medical side, representatives explained the Wellness Center and its system were a not-for-profit health system that focused on tending to the sick and injured, as well as wellness, for more than 20 years. However, the closure came as there became a “critical demand for more clinical space,” as well as other reasons, including the need to provide more comprehensive clinical services so residents don’t need to leave the area for care; the need to provide more advanced cardiovascular services, a program that already has insufficient space for the doctors currently there; to repurpose the space to allow for the expansion of the East region Heart and Vascular Institute; and to aide in providing full-service care in emergency departments, critical care and medical/surgical units, which requires more space.
Wellness Center members were to be provided trails and specials at Onelife Fitness as the partnership between the two facilities got underway, that leading to community suspicion that funding was behind the decision. Representatives stressed that funding was never a factor in the change.
During the information session, community members and Wellness Center members shared stories of the community built at the center, stressed the ease of access and support found within the building for senior members and the important role the facility played in the well-being and paths of many of its members.
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