About Citizens Medical Center
Citizens Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital known for compassionate patient care, clinical expertise, and bringing advanced medical services to the South Texas region since 1956. Today, Citizens is a 338-bed acute care hospital with over 1,000 employees. Citizens Medical Center is recognized for its outstanding cardiology program which includes a nationally accredited Chest Pain Center. Citizens has a Comprehensive, Accredited Bariatric Surgery program, a nationally accredited Comprehensive Community Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and has a24/7 emergency department, advanced Level III Trauma facility and onsite medical helicopter, a Primary Stroke Center, imaging and surgery center, sleep study center, Citizens Birth Center with labor and delivery, state-of-the-art rehabilitation and fitness center, urology center and daVinci robotics minimally invasive surgery options, a home health agency, andhas a long history of providing continuing education for healthcare providers and the community.

Our Mission
Citizens Medical Center is guided by our mission: “To provide quality medical services at a reasonable cost to the citizens of the region.” As a not-for-profit, community-owned hospital, Citizens Medical Center’s financial resources stay in the community, and are reinvested in the hospital, its technology and its people.

Our Vision
The vision of Citizens Medical Center is: “to be the preferred provider for healthcare in the region”. To achieve this goal we work to anticipate the needs of our community. We bring the latest research, the most advanced technology, and hire staff capable of running a variety of programs geared towards enhancing and promoting health. We also make sure that our urgent care and emergency facilities are well-staffed and have the means necessary to handle any emergency that comes through our doors.