Healthcare Dive reported: Mon Marion Neighborhood Hospital in West Virginia is part of a burgeoning trend of micro-hospitals, diminutive facilities with less than 50 beds.

WHITE HALL, W.Va. — It was a busy Thursday morning at the strip mall in White Hall, West Virginia. Once the sprawling grounds of Middletown Mall, the state’s first shopping mall before it shuttered in 2017, customers shuffled under a searing August sun between stores like Michaels, Five Below, Ace Hardware and Tractor Supply.

You’d be forgiven for overlooking the catty-cornered building sandwiched between the Department of Motor Vehicles and across the two-lane road from the Italian pizzeria. 

The bright red “Emergency” sign over the front entrance might get your attention though. Or the Marion County ambulances with their engines idling around back.

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