Yuma Regional Medical Center

Last updated
Yuma Regional Medical Center
YRMC Logo.png
YRMC Main Entrance.jpg
Main entrance at YRMC.
Yuma Regional Medical Center
Geography
Location Yuma, Arizona
Coordinates 32°41′01″N114°38′01″W / 32.6835°N 114.6336°W / 32.6835; -114.6336
Organisation
Care system Private
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type General, Teaching
Services
Emergency department Level IV [1]
Beds406 [2]
History
Opened1958
Links
Website YRMC's Website

Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is a hospital in Yuma, Arizona. It began in 1958 under the name Parkview Hospital. [3]

Contents

In November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital did not allow an emergency physician, Cleavon Gilman, to continue work due to his providing information on social media about the COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona. [4] Subsequently, in December 2020 the hospital was facing a critical staffing shortage. [5]

History

Yuma Regional Medical Center was founded as Parkview Hospital in 1958. [3]

In 1961, the Baptist Hospital Association of Arizona assumed management of the hospital and renamed it Parkview Baptist Hospital. [6] [7]

In 1972, management of the hospital was transferred to the Yuma community, which renamed it Yuma Regional Medical Center. [8]

In 2004, a new six-story hospital tower was completed, adding a 42-bed ICU, a heart center, and over 140 new regular beds. [9] [10]

In 2013, YRMC became a teaching facility with the addition of a graduate medical education (GME) program in Family and Community Medicine. [11]

In July 2014 the Yuma Regional Cancer Center was opened. [12] The Center provides comprehensive cancer care. In 2018 the center was certified by the Commission on Cancer, a part of the American College of Surgeons. [13]

Cancer Center at YRMC YRMC Cancer Center.jpg
Cancer Center at YRMC
Hospital Tower at YRMC YRMC Hospital Tower.jpg
Hospital Tower at YRMC

Services

Specialties

Specialties available include: [14]

Procedures and conditions

Some of the procedures that are performed include: [14]

Leadership

The following comprise the Executive Leadership Team: [15]

NamePosition
Robert TrenschelPresident & Chief Executive Officer
Bharat MaguChief Medical Officer
Deborah AdersChief Nursing Officer
Vice President of Patient Care Services
David WillieChief Financial Officer
Fredrick PeetChief Information Officer
Justin FarrenVice President of Ambulatory Operations
Machele HeadingtonVice President of Marketing & Communications
Trudie MilnerVice President of Operations
Robert SeibelGeneral Counsel

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cleveland Clinic</span> Hospital in Ohio, United States

Cleveland Clinic, founded in 1921 by a group of faculty and alumni from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is a nonprofit American academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation, it runs a 170-acre (69-hectare) campus in Cleveland, as well as 11 affiliated hospitals, 19 family health centers in Northeast Ohio, and hospitals in Florida and Nevada. International operations include the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi hospital in the United Arab Emirates and Cleveland Clinic Canada, which has two executive health and sports medicine clinics in Toronto. Another hospital campus in the United Kingdom, Cleveland Clinic London, opened to outpatients in 2021 and fully opened in 2022. Tomislav Mihaljevic is the president and CEO.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center</span> Hospital in New Hampshire, United States

Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the flagship campus of the Dartmouth Health system, is the U.S. state of New Hampshire's only academic medical center. DHMC is a 486-inpatient bed hospital and serves as a major tertiary-care referral site for patients throughout northern New England. As an academic medical center, DHMC offers primary, specialty and subspecialty care as well as education and research in partnership with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, one of America's oldest medical schools, as well as the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lankenau Medical Center</span> Hospital in Pennsylvania, United States

Lankenau Medical Center, part of Main Line Health, is a 370-bed acute care, teaching hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital</span> Hospital in Washington, United States

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital is a 648-bed general hospital in Spokane, Washington. It employs more than 4,000 health care professionals and support staff; its medical staff consists of over 800 specialists and primary care doctors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UK King's Daughters</span> Hospital in Kentucky, United States

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baptist Health (Jacksonville)</span> Faith-based health system in the southern United States

Baptist Health (Jacksonville) is a faith-based, non-profit health system comprising 7 hospitals with 1,168 beds, a cancer center, four satellite emergency departments and more than 200 patient access points of care, including 50 primary care offices located throughout northeast Florida and southeast Georgia. The headquarter is in Jacksonville, Florida.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NYU Langone Health</span> Hospital in New York, United States

NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The organisation consists of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and more than 300 locations throughout the New York metropolitan area, including six inpatient facilities: Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn and NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island. It is also home to Rusk Rehabilitation. NYU Langone Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in the Northeast, with more than 46,000 employees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Westchester Medical Center</span> Hospital in New York, United States

Westchester Medical Center University Hospital (WMC), formerly Grasslands Hospital, is an 895-bed Regional Trauma Center providing health services to residents of the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and southern Connecticut. It is known for having one of the highest case mix index rates of all hospitals in the United States. 652 beds are at the hospital's primary location in Valhalla, while the other 243 beds are at the MidHudson Regional Hospital campus in Poughkeepsie. It is organized as Westchester County Health Care Corporation, and is a New York State public-benefit corporation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Maryland Medical Center</span> Hospital in Maryland, United States

The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is a teaching hospital with 806 beds based in Baltimore, Maryland, that provides the full range of health care to people throughout Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. It gets more than 26,000 inpatient admissions and 284,000 outpatient visits each year. UMMC has approximately 9,050 employees at the UMMC Downtown Campus, as well as 1,300 attending physicians and 950 resident physicians across the Downtown and the Midtown campuses. UMMC provides training for about half of Maryland's physicians and other health care professionals. All members of the medical staff are on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sentara Healthcare</span> Healthcare organization serving Virginia and northeastern North Carolina

Sentara Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It is based in Norfolk, Virginia and offers services in 12 acute care hospitals, with 3,739 beds, 853,000 members in its health plan, 10 nursing centers, and three assisted living facilities across the two states. Sentara Healthcare operates its own managed-care plan in Optima Health which covers 450,000 subscribers in the region. It also operates four medical groups.

BJC HealthCare is a non-profit health care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri. BJC includes two nationally recognized academic hospitals – Barnes–Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, which are both affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine.

Nebraska Medicine, is a private not-for-profit American healthcare company based in Omaha, Nebraska. The company was created as Nebraska Health System (NHS) in 1997, when Bishop Clarkson Hospital merged with the adjacent University Hospital in midtown Omaha. Renamed The Nebraska Medical Center in 2003, in 2014 the company merged with UNMC Physicians and Bellevue Medical Center to become Nebraska Medicine. The company has full ownership of two hospitals and 39 specialty and primary care clinics in and around Omaha, with partial ownership in two rural hospitals and a specialty hospital. Nebraska Medicine's main campus, Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska Medical Center, has 718 beds, while its Bellevue Medical Center campus has 91 beds.

Crozer Health is a four-hospital health system based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and serving Delaware County; northern Delaware and parts of western New Jersey.

TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is a non-profit hospital located in Salisbury, Maryland.

Uganda Heart Institute (UHI), is a specialized, public, tertiary care medical facility owned by the Uganda Ministry of Health. It is a component of Mulago National Referral Hospital, the largest hospital in Uganda, which serves as the teaching hospital of Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edward L. Varney</span> American architect (1914–1998)

Edward Leighton Varney Jr. (1914–1998) was an American Modernist architect working in Phoenix, Arizona from 1937 until his retirement in 1985. He designed the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, and Sun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University. In 1941, he began his career, which would extend to his retirement in 1985. His firm would continue designing buildings into the 1990s.

Cleavon Gilman is an emergency physician and public health advocate in the United States. He is also an Iraq war veteran having been a Navy Hospital Corpsman attached to the U.S. Marine Corps. He completed his residency training in New York City at the Presbyterian Hospital during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently moved to Yuma, Arizona in June 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Upstate University Hospital</span> Hospital in New York, United States

Upstate University Hospital is a 752-bed non-profit, teaching hospital located in Syracuse, New York. Upstate University Hospital is a part of the Upstate Health System, as the flagship hospital in the system. As the hospital is a teaching hospital, it is affiliated with the Norton College of Medicine at State University of New York Upstate Medical University. The hospital is also an American College of Surgeons verified Level 1 Trauma Center, the only in the region and one of 21 in New York. Attached to the hospital is the Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital that treats infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21.

References

  1. "Arizona State Designated Trauma Centers Health Care Institution" (PDF). Arizona Department of Health Services. May 11, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. "About Us". Yuma Regional Medical Center. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Parkview Hospital Rated Top Yuma Story of 1958". Yuma Sun. 31 December 1958 via NewspaperArchive.
  4. Landers, Jamie. "'A slap in the face': Yuma hospital fires ER doctor for talking about COVID-19 in Arizona". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. Albright, Adonis (9 December 2020). "Arizona sends strike team to YRMC amid staffing concerns". KYMA. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. "Parkview Board To Consider Baptists". Yuma Sun. 26 January 1961 via Newspaper Archive.
  7. "Parkview Baptist Is New Name as Lease Signed". Yuma Sun. 1 February 1961 via Newspaper Archive.
  8. Kendall, Frances (25 July 1972). "Parkview Will Get New Name". Yuma Sun via Newspaper Archive.
  9. "Yuma Regional Medical Center Bed Tower Grand Opening". The Sun. Yuma. September 26, 2004. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  10. Lobeck, Joyce (June 7, 2004). "Coming Soon to YRMC". The Sun. Yuma. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  11. "Yuma Family Medicine Residency Program Opened Its Physical Doors This past July" (PDF). Family Physician Focus. 17 (4): 16–17. Fall 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  12. "Sate-of-the-Art Yuma Regional Cancer Center Officially Opens". PRWeb. Vocus PRW Holdings. July 30, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  13. "YRMC Cancer Center Earns National Accreditation". Press Reader. Yuma Sun. June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  14. 1 2 "Rankings & Ratings". U.S. News Health. U.S. News & World Report L.P. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  15. "Leadership". Yuma Regional Medical Center. Retrieved June 27, 2018.