Each of these facilities currently operates at a loss and needs serious capital investment, renovation and in some case wholesale transformation. To adequately address these long term issues, The state would need to invest over $100 million over the next few years in rebuilding and renovating these facilities. Furthermore, even if the state invested this money, the long term operating cost, they're only going to continue to rise, but they'd rise without substantially improving the level of care that's provided to the patients. (04:19–04:28)
CLAIM
Asserts that West Virginia needs to invest over $100 million in facility renovations.
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