Valley Hospital Medical Center is a for-profit hospital owned by Universal Health Services and operated by Valley Health System. It is one of six hospitals within the Valley Health System in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is accredited by the Joint Commission and includes a certified Primary Stroke Center, an accredited Chest Pain Center and a certified Heart Failure Center.[1]
Valley's Emergency Critical Care Center increased the number of beds from 28 to 42 on March 11, 2004.[citation needed] This project was completed when 11 urgent care beds were added to the center in June.[citation needed]
The hospital no longer has labor and delivery, NICU, nursery or gynecology units as of 2014.[2] This area of the hospital was re-purposed to become a Behavioral Health Unit.
From 1980 to 2001, the helipad was located on top of the hospital, adjacent to the lobby. After "Flight for Life" was sold to "Mercy Air Services" in 2001, the hospital created a landing zone just south of the emergency entrance in a dirt lot for Mercy Air's bigger helicopters. In 2007, the hospital refurbished an old parking lot into a grassy area, complete with a new helipad right in front of the emergency entrance.