Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, founded in 1953, is the cornerstone of what would eventually become Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS). Today, we serve thousands of individuals and families just like you throughout the Salinas Valley, Monterey Peninsula and the surrounding region. Each year, our highly trained team of healthcare professionals takes our renowned quality of patient care to the next level. Our team actively utilizes the latest medical techniques with our state-of-the-art technology to improve your health and well-being. In many cases this provides you and your family the opportunity to receive specialized care right here in your own community, without the need for travel. Our 266-bed acute care hospital employs more than 1,600 people and has a medical staff of more than 300 board-certified physicians across a broad spectrum of specialties, all dedicated to your care.To enhance and expand the reach of our care, we strategically partner with larger research and metro hospitals such as Stanford. In addition, we are part of a network of urgent care and surgery centers, the only Perinatal Diagnostic Center in the region and an Emergency Department that provides care to more than 44,000 patients every year."Each day we deliver exceptional, compassionate and culturally sensitive care, holding true to our mission of improving the health and well-being of our community."