The 297-bed nonprofit Mission Regional Medical Center runs along the Mexican border, serving a growing community. The hospital has been serving the area for 70 years and offers emergency services, women’s services, orthopedic care, critical care, cardiopulmonary services, laparoscopic and general surgery, newborn ICU, wound care, gastroenterology, rehab, lab, and state-of-the-art imaging. Every year, the hospital provides care for 24,000 emergency patients. The hospital also recently opened new clinics to expand primary and specialty care for the South Texas population. The maternity outreach clinic provides prenatal care to more than 900 underserved women each year. The heart and vascular clinic provides services to a high percentage of the population who are at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In addition, Mission Regional became the first and only hospital in the Rio Grande Valley to be accredited as a geriatric emergency department by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The hospital is heavily involved in social outreach, striving to meet various metrics of health equity, patient outcomes and value of care.
