Sierra Providence East Medical Center Repeats Excellence

Sierra Providence East Medical Center is proud to announce that it has received Tenet’s 2013 Circle of Excellence Award. Sierra Providence East is one of nine Tenet hospitals recognized for superior achievement in the areas of quality care, service excellence and operational performance.

This is the second year in a row the hospital has been recognized with the Circle of Excellence Award.

“The staff and physicians at Sierra Providence East Medical Center are being honored with a Circle of Excellence Award for demonstrating an outstanding commitment to their patients, community and hospital during 2012,” said Britt T. Reynolds, Tenet’s president of hospital operations. “I am proud to recognize them with this prestigious award as it recognizes Sierra Providence East Medical Center as a preferred hospital for patients to receive care, for physicians to practice medicine and for employees to work.” “Our focus has always been on quality and service. And moving in to 2013 we will continue to seek superior clinical outcomes and provide a great patient experience. We challenge one another everyday to set higher expectations and strive to deliver the best possible care to patients in our community”, said Sally Hurt-Deitch, CEO of Sierra Providence East Medical Center.

“I am honored to work with such a dedicated team. This award is a reflection of the commitment our team members have to the hospital, one another, our patients and our community.”

Sierra Providence East Medical Center (SPEMC) opened in May 2008 and is part of the Sierra Providence Health Network. The 110-bed acute hospital offers a range of specialties, from cardiac care and orthopedics, to Level III Neonatal Intensive Care, and emergency room needs. SPEMC has expanded its services to include Electrophysiology, a free standing outpatient Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, an outpatient Infusion Center, and a Maternal Fetal Medicine High Risk Clinic, Breast and Women’s Health Center and will introduce minimally invasive robotic surgery options with the da Vinci in the late summer.

The hospital is currently undergoing a $67 million patient tower expansion to be completed at the end of 2014. The primary focus of the expansion will be a new four-story tower with over 145,000 square feet in addition to a new emergency department that will increase the capacity from 21 beds to 31 beds. The Joint Commission recertified SPEMC as an accredited Primary Stroke Center in 2013 and Sierra Providence East was also recently designated as a Level IV Trauma Facility by the Texas Department of State Health Services.