Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta celebrates its five-year anniversary with a community open house, in partnership with Big Hearts For Little Hearts – Temecula Valley, on Sunday, Sept. 25, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Opened in 2011, the 256,000-square-foot, 106-bed, state-of-the-art acute care hospital delivers advanced care to residents in Southwest Riverside County. The facility owes its origins to the vision and dedication of a group of community physicians and investors who formed Physicians Hospital of Murrieta (PHM). Together the group purchased the land, hired an architect and obtained regulatory approvals to build the hospital. Later, the project became a joint venture between PHM and Loma Linda University Medical Center. Groundbreaking occurred in December 2008, and the hospital was completed in 2011.
“Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta is an important component of our system,” says Trevor Wright, MHA, chief operating officer, Loma Linda University Medical Center. “We remain committed to providing advanced, innovative health care to the Murrieta community.”
As the first hospital in the Murrieta-Temecula region to provide open heart surgeries and lifesaving heart care procedures, Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta has cared for thousands of heart patients from San Jacinto, Fallbrook, Menifee, Murrieta, Temecula, Lake Elsinore and other surrounding communities who needed advanced cardiology care. In August 2013, it became the first licensed STEMI (heart attack) receiving center in the region.
Among the clinical services offered at Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta are back and neck pain care, behavioral and mental health services, cancer care, emergency services, heart care, a mother-baby center, orthopedics and rehabilitation services, surgical services, a women's diagnostic center, wound care and hyperbaric medicine.