Photo Provided The building is now solidified and erected as construction progresses at the Trinity Health System St. Clairsville hospital.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Trinity Health System St. Clairsville hospital building has been erected after the construction was framed out and beams installed in July.

The interior of the building is 75% complete with drywall up in areas but minor electrical work and fabrication and sterilization still to be done. Minor work on the outside of the building still needs to be done as well.

Passersby now see a finished building, some of the Catholic tradition artwork that will adorn the outside of the building and the surrounding concrete for the flagpole. By the end of the year, it is expected the whole exterior of the hospital will be complete and officials will be ready to turn on the heat inside.

The construction has been going very well with no roadblocks or delays, according to Dwayne Richardson, president of the St. Clairsville Trinity Health System hospital. In July, the construction team ran into rain that caused some issues with building the hospital, but since then construction has been going smoothly.

“It is going better than expected,” he said.

All glass has been put into the building along with all HVAC systems that control the temperature, humidity and air quality inside. Inpatient and operating rooms are being worked on, and a parking lot is now present with blacktop that has been poured.

Richardson has two to three meetings a week about the project in order to keep it moving forward and going well. It is still set to be completed by summer and open for patients in July.

The hospital will be a 20,000-square-foot acute care service facility with two stories and 10 emergency rooms, two of which will be trauma rooms along with three fast track rooms on the second floor, six inpatient rooms including one intensive care room and two operating rooms. Other departments will also be in the hospital ranging from laboratory services to high-end imaging services.

It will also have a room geared toward bariatric patients and another room dedicated to behavioral health patients within an emergency room.

“Ever since the pandemic, construction projects have been kind of like a mystery and that mystery is will or when will that project ever be completed, and right now I am very satisfied with our construction team, who is McCarthy, they’re doing an excellent management of this project,” Richardson said.