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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities

Published August 12, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:50

So I had read about that and some people were talking about that. So I'm going to look further into that. But I can say conceptually we want to help. What has been articulated is The Trump administration's purpose...is to root out fraud, waste and abuse and to go after undocumented aliens. And I think that they want to look at a number of the public programs, including snap. I'm supportive of that. (18:50–19:00)

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Asserts the Trump administration's goals regarding SNAP data.

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“Marx Development Group or MDG has agreed to purchase these assets from the State of West Virginia for $60 billion.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 05:13-05:23
“I signed an executive order directing agencies to develop a plan for more efficient government.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 00:58-01:05
“The State of West Virginia owns and operates four long term care facilities that have 511 licensed beds.”
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“The sale of these facilities would produce a significant amount of revenue for the state.”
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“The state would need to invest over $100 million over the next few years in rebuilding and renovating these facilities.”
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“MDG has also agreed that it would be investing in West Virginia to construct new facilities.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 05:24-05:32
“MDG is also committed to sourcing the labor and material for this construction from within West Virginia.”
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“MDG has proven to be highly effective. They're a patient oriented owner and they're an operator of similar long term care facilities in…”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 06:14-06:25
“The deal is likely to result in keeping a substantial portion of those jobs that people that were working at those facilities.”
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“The state's going to realize resources right away. It's going to get significant investments for new facilities into the future.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 08:53-09:03
“We started a couple years ago with over 140 parties that originally contacted the state of West Virginia.”
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“There were 62 NDAs that were signed, eight letters of intent.”
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“We still have a number of facilities that we haven't sold yet in terms of the hospitals.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 11:01-11:06
“The long term goal of that is to eliminate most of the need for [the Department of Health Facilities].”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 11:24-11:30
“Some of those [facilities] have been required heavy subsidizing from the state and I think some of that will continue into the future.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 12:09-12:17
“The government's not very good at delivering health care.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 12:24-12:29
“We signed the paperwork, the closing [date is] September 30th, with a possible 30 day extension.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 13:24-13:27
“Substantially all of the people staffing [the healthcare facility] are going to remain people that were working for those facilities.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 14:44-14:52
“We were provided that authority by the legislature in the past.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 17:21-17:25
“The legislature appropriates and then the executive decides whether to accept that or not.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 17:46-17:53
“I'm supportive of [the Trump administration's purpose].”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey Announces Sale Of State-Owned Healthcare Facilities | Uploaded August 12, 2025 | 19:04-19:06