HOSPITAL :   Valley Regional Medical Center (www.valleyregionalmedicalcenter.com)  has been named recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence, based on a study issued by HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent healthcare ratings company. In addition, in 2008 VRMC achieved the Pathway to Excellence™ designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).A $60 million state-of-the-art, acute care, 214-bed hospital, VRMC accommodates patients with the latest technology and care delivered in a pleasing, hotel-like environment. VRMC is a designated TraumaCenter and offers many sophisticated services such as Emergency Care, ChestPainCenter, Neonatal Intensive Care, Neurosurgery, Cardiac Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery. The Women’s Pavilion specializes in obstetrics and neonatology and offers labor and delivery suites, cheerful, homelike birthing rooms and newborn nurseries and NIC unit. Additionally, General Medicine and General and Outpatient Surgery are available. Recent additions include a second Intensive Care Unit, 16 new medical/surgical beds and the installation of the most current CT technology to expand the diagnostic tools available to physicians.

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