Regional West Medical Center

Regional West Medical Center (rwmc) is a licensed 182-bed hospital which is a Regional referral Center and level ii trauma Center. The hospital provides comprehensive and advanced Medical care to people of western Nebraska and surrounding portions of south dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. The provision of comprehensive and advanced Medical care includes services in many specialties of medicine. Areas of care include brain & spine, cancer, family & children, heart & lung rehabilitation & pain management, skin and plastic surgery, surgical clinics, trauma & emergency, weight management & wellness, behavioral health, and end-of-life care.

Rwmc operates provider based clinics onsite as an extension of the hospital care and an enhancement of the care provided through affiliated organizations. The clinics operated by rwmc include spine Center, wound clinic, sleep lab, heart Center, infusions Center, anti-coagulation, chemotherapy, and community health immunization clinics. The community health clinic operates alongside scottsbluff county in providing county nursing services. The clinic also provides a community immunization clinic as a part of the county health nurse services.

As a Regional hospital, rwmc also provides ancillary services to support its primary mission of hospital care. These services include laboratory, radiology, rehabilitation and therapy for patients in the region. These departments support both inpatient and outpatient procedures for patients of rwmc and affiliated organizations as well as the community. The lab also provides outreach laboratory services to providers located in Wyoming, south dakota, Iowa and across the state of Nebraska. As a part of ensuring ongoing services through qualified technicians, rwmc operates a school of radiology technology for students providing hands-on training through the radiology departments. Rwmc operates two pharmacies, an inpatient pharmacy for patients in the hospital and a retail pharmacy that is available for the community to use. Through the rehab department, physician, occupational, speech, and massage therapists provide services to patients. The rehab department also provides ongoing rehab clinics for patients as part of their services in promoting ongoing wellness for recovery. As part of community outreach the rehab dept employs athletic trainers who work in the local schools' athletic programs providing support and injury detection and prevention for the athletes and coaches.

Other program services of rwmc include the school of nursing, which is operated in partnership with western Nebraska community college (wncc), and unmc. Some of the other programs include the overhead departments of rwmc: facilities management, bio-medical, security, housekeeping, linen, purchasing, registration, coding, information and technology services, patient financial services, finance, case management, quality, human resources, administration, marketing, project management, education and outreach services. The education department services not only the employees of rwmc and affiliated organizations, but also provides ongoing training and education for Regional health care professionals, volunteers, students and the community through cpr, atls, pals, and nrp classes in partnership with area emt's, wncc, and schoools. Through the outreach services department rwmc has network affiliations with five critical access hospitals (cahs) within its service region. Rwmc provided needed management expertise and certain Medical support services including pharmacy, occupational therapy, blood processing & collection, and laboratory management services through contract agreements with the cahs. The continued operation and success of the cahs is crucial to minimize the distance and time patients would have to travel for Medical care. Services to cahs are provided at or below operating costs to rwmc.