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Prime Hospitals Recognized among the “Greatest Community Hospitals” in the Nation

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Prime Hospitals Recognized among the “Greatest Community Hospitals” in the Nation

Five Prime Healthcare hospitals have been recognized among the top Community Hospitals in the United States by Becker’s Healthcare. A total of 153 facilities nationwide were highlighted for their clinical excellence, compassionate care, and economic impact on their communities. Inclusion on this list was based on data from U.S. News & World Report, Healthgrades, CMS star ratings, The Leapfrog Group safety grades, and The Chartis Center for Rural Health.

This recognition is a testament to the commitment of our staff and physicians at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue Springs, Missouri; Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada; Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas; Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville, California and Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lehigh, Florida. These teams have achieved national standards for quality and safety, ranking them among the nation’s best.


About Prime Healthcare story:

The seeds of Prime Healthcare’s success were first sown in the High Desert region of Southern California where Dr. Prem Reddy began practicing medicine in the 1980s. It was there Dr. Reddy built Prime Healthcare’s flagship facility, Desert Valley Hospital, to serve the community. Desert Valley Hospital has been recognized as a Top 100 Hospital in the nation six times.

Desert Valley Hospital was sold to another corporation for a few years, and immediately began faltering. In 2001, Dr. Reddy formed Prime Healthcare Services to re-purchase the hospital, rescuing it from bankruptcy and setting the standard for quality healthcare that continues throughout the hospital network to this day. Prime Healthcare’s motto is “Saving Hospitals, Saving Jobs, Saving Lives” which the company continues to do as it grows.

From the lessons learned during the transformation of Desert Valley Hospital, Prime Healthcare’s model was established and now leads to the rescue and transformation of financially struggling community hospitals across the country. Prime Heathcare is nationally recognized for award-winning quality care and has been named a Top 10 and Top 15 Health Systemby Fortune/IBM Watson Health. Its hospitals have also been named among the nation’s best as ”100 Top hospitals” 58 times by Fortune/IBM Watson Health and have received more Patient Safety Excellence Awards from Healthgrades than any other health system for seven consecutive years (2016-2022).

Three years after the formation of Prime Healthcare, the company purchased the second hospital in the family, Chino Valley Medical Center, when Dr. Reddy was asked to save the hospital from bankruptcy. Growth continued throughout the early 2000s, and in recent years has increased pace as the shifting healthcare landscape endangered more and more small community hospitals, threatening to close them without financial support. To date, Prime has invested more than $1.7 billion in capital improvements for its hospitals since 2005.


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