Uvalde Memorial Hospital

Details

Name :

Uvalde Memorial Hospital

Address  :

1025 Garner Field Rd

Town  :

Uvalde

State  :

Texas

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

78801

Phone  :

830 278 6251

Fax  :

830 278 8529

Web URL  :


Description

Uvalde area residents have access to the finest available diagnostic and therapeutic health care services in this region Uvalde Memorial Hospital provides excellent health care to a population of over 50000 The service area includes Uvalde Real Zavala Edwards and Kinney counties The entire staff composed of over 430 employees is dedicated to seeing that we provide the highest quality services to the area

The facility was founded in 1949 and became a hospital authority on January 26 1968 The notforprofit facility offers 66 beds with eight intensive care units 11 maternity rooms with fetal monitoring equipment surgical suites and intermediate intensive care unit a 24hour emergency departmentstateoftheart imaging facilities which include nuclear medicine ultrasound CT and MRI scanning bone densitometry and PACS picture archiving communication system sleep center heart catheterization a pharmacy hospice care hyperbaric and wound care center chemotherapy treatment center a complete Rehabilitation department and a social services program

Currently UMH has 14 physicians on its active medical staff consisting of a gynecologist family practitioners internists a radiologist and surgeons Each month UMH averages 159 surgeries 37 obstetrical deliveries and 167 inpatient admissions


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