It is a General Acute Care Hospital in Indio with Basic Emergency Services as of 2006.[1] One of three hospitals in the Coachella Valley, it has one of the state's busiest maternity wards.[citation needed] In 2005, it opened a new maternity center as part of a hospital expansion plan for more surgical rooms, intensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. As of 2008, the hospital is a 145-bed capacity facility.[2][3]
History
The facility originally opened as "Indio Community Hospital" in 1966, with 112 beds, built on land previously owned by founder Dr. Reynaldo Carreon (the namesake for Dr. Carreon Boulevard).[4][5] In 1975, the hospital was purchased from American Medicorp, a national health care chain, by the owners of Valley Memorial Hospital also in Indio. Valley Memorial was originally known as Casita Hospital (until it was renamed in mid-1964) and had opened in the late 1940s.[6][7][8]
Tenet Healthcare (then known as National Medical Enterprises) purchased the hospital in June 1979.[9][10][11] which was renamed John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in 1984.[6]
↑ Porter, Priscilla H. (Fall 2014). "Reynaldo J. Carreon, Jr., O.D., D.O., M.D., 1900–1991". The Riverside County Chronicles (11). Riverside County Historical Commission; Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District: 25–30. ISBN978-1986311205.
↑ (8 June 1975). Hospitals Merge, Los Angeles Times ("the partnership of doctors which owns Valley Memorial Hospital has announced purchase of the 112-bed Indio Community Hospital for an undisclosed price.")
↑ Nursing career directory, p. 366 (1979) ("Indio Community Hospital is a 112-bed facility that was purchased by National Medical Enterprises in June 1979. Expansion of the facility and its bed capacity was begun in May, 1980 ...")
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