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Prime Living Seminars 2025
Free And Open to The Community. Join us for Food, Refreshments, Health Screenings & Door Prizes!! Main Lobby at 5:30 pm. Make plans to attend Harlingen Medical Center’s Prime Living Seminars and take part in FREE health education and giveaways….
Harlingen Medical Center will no longer perform deliveries of newborns
For many years, Harlingen Medical Center has delivered thousands of babies with clinical excellence and compassion, earning national accolades for quality patient care. Our teams in obstetrics / gynecology and labor and delivery consistently…
New Health Clinic To Open On South Padre Island Nov. 14; With Ribbon-Cutting On Nov. 13
Family Wellness Clinic at South Padre Island affiliated with Harlingen Medical Center, will provide convenient primary care. A new healthcare clinic will open November 14, 2024 on South Padre…
New Internal Medicine Residency Program To Bring More Doctors To Valley
13 new physicians to be part of first-ever graduate medical education class at Harlingen Medical Center. A new Internal Medicine Residency Program at Harlingen Medical Center will help…
Streamlining Your Emergency Room Experience: Introducing FastTrackCare
At Harlingen Medical Center, we offer FastTrackCare, a simple online tool that lets you reserve your spot in the ER for non-life-threatening issues ahead of time. Here’s how it works and how it can help you. Please remember, in a life-threatening...
Navigating Alzheimer’s with Care and Compassion: Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
November marks Alzheimer's Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness, providing essential information, and extending our reassurance and support to those affected by Alzheimer's disease. At Harlingen Medical Center, we recognize the...
Minimally-Invasive Robotic Surgery Available at Harlingen Medical Center
Harlingen Medical Center is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, which is designed with the goal of further advancing the technology used in minimally-invasive surgery. The da Vinci Xi robotic system can be used across a spectrum of minimally-invasive surgical procedures and has been optimized for “multi-quadrant” surgeries
Valley Patient Thankful After Life-Saving Procedure to Open Blood Vessel in Lungs
A Valley patient is grateful to be alive – and to be able to breathe without gasping for air — after undergoing a life-saving pulmonary embolism removal procedure at Harlingen Medical Center. Dr. James Stone and Dr. Danielle Stone, Cardiologists, performed the highly-specialized procedure —
Dr. Shereef Hilmy Performs 1,000th Life-Saving Aortic Aneurysm Repair Procedure At Harlingen Medical Center
Dr. Shereef Hilmy, a Cardiologist at the South Heart Clinic, recently performed his 1000th aortic aneurysm repair procedure, potentially saving a patient’s life at Harlingen Medical Center. The procedure is critical in that it must be performed before an aortic aneurysm bursts-
Valley Man Receives Life-Saving Heart Procedure 21 Minutes After Arriving At Harlingen Medical Center
A Valley man received a potentially life-saving heart procedure within 21 minutes of arriving at Harlingen Medical Center — with the rapid, record-breaking response time by hospital doctors, nurses and EMS staff resulting in a significantly better outcome for the patient.
Prime Healthcare Celebrates Patient Safety Excellence Recognition from Healthgrades Highest National Recognition for Eight Years in a Row
[Ontario, CA] – March 21, 2023 – The majority of Prime Healthcare's community hospitals have been recognized by Healthgrades as 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipients. This year marks the eighth year in a row that Prime Healthcare has had...
Harlingen Medical Center proudly unveil the latest in cutting-edge technology for Orthopedics
Today marks a memorable day for Harlingen Medical Center, as we proudly unveil the latest in cutting-edge technology for Orthopedics. Rio Grande Valley … MEET MAKO! The FIRST Mako SmartRobotics arm for knee replacements in the Rio...