HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia hospital plans to affix the Mountain Well being Community underneath an settlement that requires $39 million in investments over the following 5 years, well being officers introduced.

The settlement introduced Thursday is step one towards Nice Valley Hospital in Level Nice being acquired by Cabell Huntington Hospital and permitting the 101-bed nonprofit hospital to develop into a part of the well being community that additionally contains St. Marys Medical Heart in Huntington, Mountain Well being mentioned in a information launch.

Nice Valley already was underneath a 2013 administration companies settlement with Cabell Huntington.

The newest settlement requires Cabell Huntington to take a position $25 million in Nice Valley. That features an improve in its info know-how platform, renovations to the emergency division, further doctor recruitment and doctor residency coaching packages in partnership with the Marshall College Joan C. Edwards College of Drugs and Marshall Well being.

As well as, Nice Valley will contribute an estimated $14 million that Cabell Huntington will use towards capital enchancment tasks on the hospital, the assertion mentioned.

“With so many constructive modifications in Mason County and the encompassing space, the timing is correct for Nice Valley Hospital to take the following step with Mountain Well being Community to advance our future in caring for our group,” Nice Valley board chairman Peter Allinder mentioned within the assertion.

Mountain Well being CEO Kevin Yingling mentioned the settlement’s aim is to make sure entry to superior drugs and compassionate take care of residents served by the Level Nice hospital from West Virginia and Ohio.