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WVU Medicine acquired Fairmont Medical Center
West Virginia University Medicine, which separated from the university in 1984 to become a nonprofit corporation, is the largest private employer in West Virginia.It expanded from its original J. W. Ruby Memorial Hospital (operated from 1960 to 19...
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