Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center
| Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center | |
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Entrance and main building
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| Geography | |
| Location | Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Medicare, Medicaid, Public |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level IV trauma center |
| Beds | 99 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.gcrmc.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in New Mexico |
Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center is a general hospital, owned and operated by the non-profit Otero County Hospital Association, that serves the Alamogordo, New Mexico area. It is the first military/civilian shared hospital facility in the United States.
GCRMC is accredited by the Det Norske Veritas. It opened in 1949, and in 2008 it was the largest non-governmental employer in Alamogordo, with 650 employees.
With the opening of its new facility in 1999, GCRMC became the first hospital in the United States shared by active-duty military personnel and civilians. Air Force physicians from Holloman Air Force Base are credentialed at the hospital to admit and treat Department of Defense beneficiaries. The Air Force contributed $7 million for equipment for the new hospital in 1998 and DoD patients will get substantial discounts at the hospital for 15 years, with a guaranteed recovery of $7 million within the first seven years.
The hospital is a Level III trauma center. It has 99 beds on a 65-acre (260,000 m2) campus and facilities for MRI, CAT scan, dialysis, and sleep disorder studies, and has a medical laboratory on site. A Southwest Med Evac air ambulance helicopter, stationed full-time at the hospital, is used to transport patients from the mountain areas to GCRMC, and to transport patients from GCRMC to hospitals in El Paso, Las Cruces, and Albuquerque.
The hospital hosts an American Cancer Society Cancer Resource Center at 1212 9th Street in Alamogordo. The Cancer Resource Center provides free of charge: literature, support groups, prostheses, wigs, and hats for cancer patients and cancer survivors. For more information go to visit www.cancer.org.
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