Glendale Memorial Hospital is an acute short-term general hospital which through the years has been providing high quality care to the residents of the Glendale Community. It was established in 1923 by a group of citizens that realized the need of the community for having a new hospital. Since its foundation, the hospital has been dedicated to the purchase of the latest equipments, building improvements and staff quality to provide the patients the best medical cares.
Several features make Glendale Memorial Hospital a unique institution; it supports the community providing services in Behavioral Health, Emergency Services, Heart Center, Orthopaedics, Women?s Center and Special Programs in Alpha Treatment Center, which offers attention to those patients with alcohol or drugs dependency; Cardiac Fitness Center, Diabetes Education, Home Health Services, Nutrition Counseling, Senior Care Services, Chronic Disease Self-Management likewise Wound Care Center. The programs and services are supported by education classes, the best campuses and the highest qualified nurses, physicians and therapists.
The Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center has 1,600 employees, with 580 physicians in 50 specialties. The facility has 334 license general acute care beds, 24 perinatal new born intensive care, 12 medical intensive care, 14 rehabilitation center, 12 coronary intensive care and 180 unspecified general acute, likewise 30 skilled nursing beds and 49 acute psychiatric beds.
These characteristics have made Glendale Memorial a well recognized institution and the ?Glendale?s Best Hospital?, according to the readers of Glendale News-Press. However, the best designation that Glendale Memorial could have is the preference of the community and the satisfaction of patients and staff about the healing mission through the prevention, research and treatment of the medical needs they face.