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Description

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Our Mission Statement
To provide quality healthcare services to our customers

Our Quality Commitment
To strive to provide and continually improve the quality and scope of services provided to our community To provide modern equipment and facilities and plan for the capital structure necessary to accomplish same To recognize that delivery of quality care requires a financially viable institution and that excellence and financial solvency go handinhand

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History

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The rich history of GCRMC proves a community that comes together can accomplish great things From the early conception in 1948 when Gerald Champion and other community leaders decided to provide Otero County with a hospital of its own to the opening in August 1949 Mr Champion died before the opening of the new hospital and the hospital received his name Sixtytwo years later this hospital still belongs to the community of Alamogordo

Many renovations and expansions saw Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital reach its maximum growth in 1996 and plans began to focus on building a new facility Once again our Board of directors were focused on the community This time a priority was bringing the Holloman Air Force and Alamogordo communities together utilizing one hospital for inpatient services There was no blueprint for this model but there were dedicated men and women from both communities with vision Many trips to Washington DC resulted in this first unique relationship of a shared facility Physicians from HAFB have full admission status at GCRMC to treat Department of Defense patients and their dependents

Since December 2010 this shared facility model has been in existence for 11 years We all agree it has been a great success story The future holds many possibilities for this facility and the community that was not afraid to do something different GCRMC will continue its commitment to technological excellence maintaining state of the art capabilities in the services that are provided developing new services recruiting new physicians and continuing to enhance the existing electronic medical record as priorities for our future GCRMC is ranked among the top five percent of hospitals in the United States for levels of completion in their electronic medical record

1959
The current Board building upon the foundation laid by their visionary predecessors used operating efficiencies and new services to build working capital reserves sufficient to secure the needed debt and equity to complete this modern replacement facility

1975
The first 50 years we witnessed challenging yet exciting opportunities as new healthcare technologies and services were added to meet the demands of our community

1985
This new replacement medical center one of the first in the new millennium is well designed to move us forward into the new century

1999
The quotEvolution of Excellencequot is more than a theme for Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center This is a process that launched our small hospital to continue the evolutionary growth to become a stateoftheart medical facility and major employer in the community

GCRMC has over 700 employees As a private nonprofit organization we actively return our resources in quality healthcare services to the community

The Evolution of Excellence represents continuous change and improvement The Evolution of Excellence IS Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center