Dixie Regional Medical Center

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Dixie Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is a 245-bed hospital located on two campuses in St. George, Utah. DRMC is the major medical referral center for northwestern Arizona, southeastern Nevada and southern Utah. DRMC is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is a service of Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit health care system serving the Intermountain West.

[edit] DRMC River Road

The state-of-the-art 420,000+ square-foot facility hosts 132 acute inpatient beds and the community's emergency department. Health care in southern Utah advanced to a new level as the first tertiary service, open-heart surgery, was performed on December 2, 2003. Most other acute inpatient care is provided at this campus.

[edit] DRMC 400 East

Southern Utah's first Acute Rehabilitation Center (providing specialty care for stroke and other neurologically impaired patients) opened on the newly remodeled 5th Floor, December 26, 2003. The Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) opened in May 2005. Women's and children's care, the smallest fully accredited cancer center in the nation, same-day surgery, wound clinic, lab, some imaging services, IV therapy, the diabetes clinic, hyperbaric medicine clinic and behavioral medicine are also located at this campus.