Hays Medical Center

Hays Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit hospital formed by the 1991 merger of two religiously affiliated facilities, and provides the only tertiary level services in the region. The organization’s Vision Statement, developed collaboratively with local and regional physicians, hospital administrators and community board representatives, was refined to a single core purpose: “To Help People Be Healthy,” and an overriding goal: “To Be the Best Tertiary Care Center in Rural America.”

Hays Medical Center maintains a local market share of nearly 90%; with total primary/secondary/tertiary service are at 25%. Patient utilization figures demonstrate approximately one-half of all hospitalizations in the region are maintained in the small rural hospitals surrounded by Hays Medical Center. Administering perhaps the largest Critical Access hospital network in the country, HMC earned the 1997 National Rural Health Association Outstanding Program Award for its EACH/RPCH and Telemedicine programs.  It is NIAHO Hospital accredited, a Level 3 Trauma Center,   an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI and Primary Stroke Center.

More than one thousand associates staff the medical center and physician clinics, accredited by DNV Healthcare and  the American College of Radiology.