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Healthcare in Sierra Vista

Serving Sierra Vista and surrounding communities, Sierra Vista Regional Health Center (SVRHC) opened in October 1963 as Western Baptist Osteopathic Hospital. Changing the name to Sierra Vista Community Hospital a few years later, the hospital has grown with the community, undergoing several major and minor expansion projects. In 1999, the hospital’s name was formally changed to Sierra Vista Regional Health Center to reflect its expanded services and commitment to the region.

Fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (Joint Commission), SVRHC received its first full accreditation from this organization in 1973 and has remained fully accredited since.

As a full service, acute care hospital, SVRHC offers many services usually found in larger cities. The Emergency Department provides emergency services 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, including a hospital-based helicopter and pre-hospital base for local emergency services. The hospital’s Maternal/Child Department provides mother and child services for Cochise County and includes an acute care nursery for babies born at 34 weeks or later.

Based on six values – integrity, quality, compassion, collaboration, stewardship, and innovation – SVRHC’s mission is committed to customer-focused, quality health care through excellence in practice, service and leadership. A community-based, volunteer board of trustees guides the hospital’s strategic plans; a four-member executive team guides daily operations.

The 86-bed hospital is staffed by 800 nurses, technicians, pharmacists, therapists, social workers and support staff. Eighty physicians and allied health professionals comprise the active medical staff, who have privileges to care for their patients at SVRHC. In addition to the hospital’s main campus at 300 El Camino Real, their ambulatory surgery center is located two miles east on Highway 90 on land established for future growth of services.

An active cadre of volunteers provides services and fundraising for the community-based hospital. Through fundraising activities, the Foundation continuously seeks new and innovative ways supporting future growth and major equipment purchases. An active auxiliary gives scholarship funds for local nursing scholarships, as well as for hospital clinical and support staff to further educational plans. Volunteers dedicate their time in daily support of hospital departments.