Health Care in Pueblo

Parkview Medical Center

Founded in 1923, Parkview Medical Center serves Pueblo County and 14 surrounding counties, or approximately 350,000 individuals. The nonprofit medical center, part of Parkview Health Systems Inc., is locally owned and governed.

Parkview Medical Center offers 350 general acute-care beds, as well as 20 beds for those in need of long-term care. The region’s first certified Stroke Center is available to patients, in addition to a Level II Trauma Center. The medical center also provides cardiac, women’s, emergency and neurological services, with behavioral health programs also available.

Nutritional services, including diet instruction, education, planning and analysis are offered to patients and visitors alike. Spiritual care is also provided, assisting families with end-of-life issues, sacraments and offering counseling plus other services.

Parkview-Pueblo West

Built to serve the community’s growing health-care needs, Parkview-Pueblo West, located on the corner of Industrial and Purcell boulevards, is a stand-alone emergency department open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients can expect to receive the same level of care they enjoy at Parkview Medical Center, with board-certified emergency care physicians and nurses who specialize in emergency care on staff.

Patients will also have access to the same resources that are available in the medical center’s emergency department, including laboratory services, radiology and CT scan and respiratory therapy.

The 18,000-square-foot facility, built on a 35-acre parcel, may expand in the future as the community’s need continues to grow.

St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center

Converted from a two-story boarding house into a hospital in 1882, St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center is a 408-bed facility serving the city and county of Pueblo, as well as Southern Colorado and the neighboring states of New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma.

St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center provides a Flight for Life helicopter base, a comprehensive cancer center, a stroke center and a variety of other resources.

The facility recently underwent a $59 million expansion, creating a new emergency department, an innovative intensive care unit, enhanced diagnostic services and 112 private patient rooms. A new central registration area was also added, as well as a gift shop.

Article by: Jessica Walker for livability.com