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Valley Baptist Has Provided Life-saving Hospital Care for 90 Years
- Updated: August 14, 2015
HARLINGEN – As Cameron County’s largest hospital, Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen has been serving Valley residents for 90 years, pioneering many types of life-saving heart and stroke procedures, joint replacement / orthopedic surgeries, women’s and children’s services, minimally-invasive surgeries, and other medical advancements in the Valley.
Recently, readers of the Valley Morning Star selected Valley Baptist-Harlingen as “Best Hospital” and for having “Best Rehabilitation Services” and the “Best Diet Center” in the Harlingen area, during the newspaper’s annual “Best of Best” survey.
Among the areas where Valley Baptist has been a leader in health care advancements is in the care of stroke or “brain attacks.” Valley Baptist-Harlingen is the only hospital in South Texas to offer “endovascular stroke procedures,” which can be performed up to eight hours or more into a stroke.
Valley Baptist Medical Center-Harlingen has been saving lives and serving Valley residents with around-the-clock hospital care every day of the year for nine decades.
These advanced procedures — which are performed in specially-equipped bi-plane labs / neurovascular angiography suites at Valley Baptist — provide Valley patients with a longer time window in which to survive strokes and hopefully minimize disabilities. However, it is still critical for people with symptoms of stroke to call 911 immediately, as the sooner that treatment begins, the more of the patient’s brain the doctors can potentially save.
Life-saving care provided by Valley Baptist physicians and staff also made Valley Baptist-Harlingen and its sister hospital, Valley Baptist-Brownsville, the first hospitals in the Valley to receive “Gold Plus” awards for care of stroke patients from the American Heart Association, as well as the first Valley hospitals to be accredited as “Primary Stroke Centers” by the national accrediting organization for health care facilities, the Joint Commission, and by the State of Texas.
Patients from across the United States and Canada come to Valley Baptist for orthopedic surgery. Valley Baptist-Harlingen is the first hospital south of San Antonio to be certified specifically for knee and hip replacement surgeries by the accrediting organization, the Joint Commission.
For more information on new health care services in the Valley, please visit www.ValleyBaptist.net, or call (956) 389-1100.
