• Encompass Health announced plans to build a freestanding 36-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Bridgeport, West Virginia.
• The facility will relocate and expand the company’s former 19-bed unit at WVU Medicine United Hospital Center, which has closed.
• Construction plan shifts capacity to a standalone hospital as demand rises in the Bridgeport area.

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