San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center (SLVRMC) is an

acute care Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery.Alberta Health ServicesAcute care.Acc ...

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergen ...

located in the

San Luis Valley The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately long and wide, extending from the Continental Divide on the northwest rim into New Mexico on the south. It c ...

Alamosa Alamosa is a home rule municipality and the county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 9,806 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is the commercial center of the San Luis Valley in south-central Colora ...

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. It serves southern Colorado and northern

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex , Offi ...

. The hospital has 49 licensed beds and is a Level III trauma center. The hospital houses a 1.5 tesla MRI unit, a 16 slice CT scanner, and the only intensive-care unit in the

. SLVRMC owns the Physician Services Specialty Clinic in Alamosa and provides the only specialty physicians who serve the Valley population. The hospital is one of two hospitals (and several regional clinics) that make up San Luis Valley Health (SLV Health), a small

hospital network A hospital network is a public, non-profit or for-profit company or organization that provides two or more hospitals and other broad healthcare facilities and services. A hospital network may include hospitals in one or more regions within one o ...

. The other hospital is Conejos County Hospital in La Jara. SLV Health was founded in 2013.

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Official website
Hospitals in Colorado Buildings and structures in Alamosa County, Colorado {{authority control