Program areas at FHW
Lower Valley Hospital Association operates a 25-bed acute care and swing bed critical access Hospital. Outpatient services include emergency, ancillary testing, surgical and therapy. The Hospital participates in the medicare and medicaid programs, provides charity care and other assistance to ensure access to these services in our community. Our Hospital services are 51% medicare and 21% medicaid. We provide labs for the good samaritan clinic, programming and classes for community parkinsons patients and collaborative outpatient rehabilitation services for seniors. The Hospital serves the communities of fruita, loma and mack Colorado along with eastern villages in central Utah. Many patients come to fruita, from grand junction and other areas of mesa county, as the Hospital is sought after due to its reputation of personalized care and quality of medical staff and services provided.
The organization operates a memory care facility that provide residential accommodations and limited healthcare services to the elderly and disabled for a total bed count of 26. The willows is dedicated to residents with dementia and is a secured facility.
The organization owns and operates clinics to ensure access to primary and specialty care services in the community. These operations include but are not limited to anesthesia, emergency providers, hospitalist, radiologist, orthopedic specialists, podiatry, rheumatology, pain and physiatry. The organization continues to grow the 2 primary care practices in its employ, in response to the growing population and its need for access to primary care. Behavioral Health is embedded within primary care, providing a much needed collaboration between physicians/providers and mental Health professionals. The organization created an urgent care clinic during 2023 which provides an alternative to emergency services in a reduced cost setting.