San Juan Regional Health

Quest for Excellence

San Juan Regional Medical Center is the New Mexico Hospital Association’s Quest for Excellence award winner. We were honored as Top Overall Hospital for our process improvement Kaizen “Accelerating Cardiac Care: Implementing Point-of-Care Troponin Testing for Rapid Results." The Quest for Excellence Awards represent the highest level of professional acknowledgement from the New Mexico Hospital Association’s Quality Committee. We celebrate the remarkable achievements of our team in achieving a Troponin testing turnaround time of less than 60 minutes, allowing us to provide earlier interventions and better care for chest pain patients.

Honored for Heart Attack Care

San Juan Regional Medical Center has received the 2024 American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold achievement award. As part of an elite group of prehospital providers, our EMS first responders are committed to implementing a higher standard of rapid, research-based care to people experiencing the most severe form of heart attacks and strokes, ultimately saving lives.

Mission: Lifeline® is the American Heart Association's national initiative to reduce barriers to prompt treatment starting from when 911 is called, to EMS transport and continuing through hospital treatment and discharge.

Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI Accreditation  

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has recognized San Juan Regional Medical Center and its world class providers and care teams once again for demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients with chest pain. San Juan Regional Medical Center was awarded Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI through 2025, the only Four Corners area hospital to achieve this designation.

Hospitals that have earned Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI Accreditation have proven exceptional competency in treating patients with heart attack symptoms and have primary PCI available 24/7 every day of the year. This ensures that patients experiencing an acute heart attack receive rapid treatment in the cardiac cath lab to minimize damage to the heart muscle.

Nationally Accredited Childcare Facility

San Juan Regional Medical Center’s onsite childcare center, Children’s Discovery Place, has earned reaccreditation through 2029 from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) – the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children. NAEYC Accreditation ensures that programs are safe, well prepared, and intentional about ensuring children's success.

Family Friendly Business

San Juan Regional Medical Center has earned the 2024 Family Friendly Business Award® Platinum level recognition for having family friendly policies that help our employees succeed both at work and at home.       

Family Friendly New Mexico’s mission is to support employers that adopt certain policies that help employees and their families thrive in the workplace. The organization says these policies can improve productivity, employee retention and morale.

Reputation 800 Award in Healthcare

San Juan Regional Medical Center is committed to serving our community with quality healthcare close to home.  Earning the 800 Award shows that we are succeeding in our goal to satisfy our patients and it inspires us to continue to work hard to ensure that our patients have the best experience possible at San Juan Regional Medical Center and our San Juan Health Partners clinics.

We can’t get recognition like this without the support of our patients and our community. Our patients are our number one priority. We feel privileged and humbled to earn our patients’ trust as their partner in healthcare. We will keep taking steps to ensure their experience with us only continues to improve.

AirCare Services Awarded Accreditation

San Juan Regional Medical Center’s AirCare air ambulance service has been reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). CAMTS accreditation helps ensure the highest safety and customer care standards through a rigorous audit process. 

The reaccreditation process, which San Juan Regional Medical Center goes through voluntarily every three years, ensures that AirCare continually raises the bar for safety and the delivery of critical patient care, continuously improving processes to meet national standards. Criteria for reaccreditation include training and education, aircraft maintenance, and staff and pilot qualifications. 

Baby Friendly® Facility

San Juan Regional Medical Center has received the prestigious Baby-Friendly® designation from Baby-Friendly USA. As a Baby-Friendly® designated facility, SJRMC is committed to practicing high-quality processes and evidence-based practices designed to support mother/baby bonding and optimal infant feeding. This helps to ensure that mothers and babies are off to a healthy start in life.

MRI Accreditation

San Juan Regional Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by the American College of Radiology® (ACR®). We were awarded the gold seal of accreditation as an MRI Accredited facility in Vascular, Abdominal/Body, Orthopedic, Neurological and Breast imaging for our GE SIGNA™ Artist MRI scanner. The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety.

Mammography Accreditation

San Juan Regional Medical Center has been awarded a three-year accreditation in mammography by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety.

To achieve the ACR Gold Standard of Accreditation, San Juan Regional Medical Center and its Outpatient Diagnostic Center went through a vigorous review process to ensure that each facility meets nationally-accepted standards of care. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures and quality assurance programs are assessed. Every aspect of the accreditation process is overseen by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field of advanced diagnostic imaging.

Laboratory Accreditation

San Juan Regional Medical Center’s main laboratory has received full accreditation by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), our trusted partner in laboratory accreditation. This accreditation confirms that we are a high performing laboratory committed to delivering high quality results to our patients.

Patients who utilize CAP accredited laboratories can feel confident that their test results are accurate, which in turn helps providers make a correct diagnosis and determine the best course of treatment. In addition, patients and providers can be assured that San Juan Regional Medical Center’s laboratory is on the front lines of laboratory medicine and technology.

Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S.

San Juan Regional Medical Center has been recognized as one of the most beautiful hospitals in the USA. Our facility ranked sixth on Soliant’s 10th annual Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals contest. Supporters from across the country nominated and voted for facilities that recognized nurturing staff, comforting aesthetics, and innovative designs as key elements of beauty which contribute to the overall well-being of patients. Deliberate design aesthetics incorporated into the building to create a more healing environment include skylights and open air balconies, Meditation Rooms that mimic a Navajo Hogan, and a beautiful Healing Garden open year round for patients and visitors to enjoy.