Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc

Programs: Otero county hospital association d/b/a gerald champion regional medical center (gcrmc) provides comprehensive healthcare services through its 100-bed hospital (effective january 1, 2017), outpatient ambulatory care facilities, and a multi-specialty physician group. Gcrmc receives 80% of its admissions from otero county. The gcrmc's primary markets are the cities of alamogordo and tularosa with secondary markets expanding to more remote areas of otero county, lincoln county, chavez county and beyond. The original facility opened in august 1949 and the current medical center is a state of the art, acute care facility that opened in december 1999. The original hospital opened in 1949 with 26 beds. Today gcrmc is proud to be a 100-bed acute care facility accredited by dnv, including two distinct pps units: life transitions (aka behavioral medicine - total 19 beds) and inpatient rehabilitation (12 beds). Gcrmc shares a unique relationship with holloman air force base as the first hospital in the united states where active duty military physicians practice in a civilian hospital. This special arrangement allows one facility to meet the combined community and military needs, while serving as a model for the department of defense in conserving resources. The delivery mechanisms of care at the hospital include both inpatient and outpatient services: acute care inpatient through medical/surgical, telemetry, maternal child and 12-bed intensive care units; surgery department supported by pre-admit, outpatient care unit and post-anesthesia care unit; outpatient surgery center; provider-based physician practices in the areas of family practice, women's services including obstetrics, medical and radiation oncology, medical cardiology, gastroenterology and endocrinology, internal medicine, orthopedics and general surgery; inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services; cardiac cath lab, inpatient rehabilitation services, including physical and occupational rehab services; inpatient and outpatient cap certified laboratory services with the capability to perform over 225 different profiles and tests in-house; inpatient and outpatient diagnostic imaging services, including x-ray, 128-slice ct scan, mri, ultrasound, interventional radiology, radiofrequency ablation and nuclear medicine; inpatient and outpatient comprehensive cardiopulmonary services including behavior sleep medicine, holter monitoring, event monitoring and impedance cardiography. By the end of 2017, gcrmc employed approximately 840 people. In addition to those employees, gcmrc contracts for services in various departments such as pharmacy, anesthesia, emergency department and hospitalist providers. The medical staff of gcrmc has 221 medical members consisting of 90 active members of whom 44 are employed providers. Gcrmc continues to seek opportunities to expand services and improve quality, with the philosophy of not limiting its potential by the designation of "rural hospital," but rather identifying its scope of service based on community needs as a regional medical center. Continued progress and expansion has enhanced gcrmc's commitment to strive for outstanding service and quality; acknowledging that its future is not in its buildings or technology, but rather its people. To this end we support the people of otero county and outlying service areas with our expanded services and our financial contributions.