Directions & Maps

Registration Information

About Your Stay

Patient Rights & Responsibility

Your needs & Safety

Hospitalist Program

Financial Arrangements

Medical Records Request

About the Region

Sports Medicine

Billy Casper Wellness Center

Grant County Community Health Council

Doctor Directory

Board of Trustees

Spirit of Caring

Culture of Safety

Patient Satisfaction

Quality Indicators

Quality and Awards

Quality New Mexico Journey

Health Information Technology

Surgical Center of the Southwest

Gila Regional Cancer Center

Maternal/Child Services

Women’s Health

Emergency Medicine

Behavioral Health

Projects and Special Events

Recipe Winners!

Local Health Resources

Our Services

You are in: Our Services
Introduction
	Surgical Center of the Southwest
	Gila Regional Cancer Center
	Maternal/Child Services
	Women’s Health
	Home Care
	Hospice
	Rehabilitation
	Pharmacy
	Diagnostics
	Emergency Medicine
	Behavioral Health

Gila Regional Medical Center

1313 E 32nd Street
Silver City, New Mexico 88061

Phone: (575) 538-4000
Fax (575) 538-9714

"Cutting Edge" Patient Medication Safety

You don't have to be a large academic medical center to employ the latest technologies that enhance patient safety. Here at Gila Regional two cutting edge technologies are employed to assure our medication system is as safe as possible -Pyxis and bedside medication verification.

Pyxis is an automated dispensing system stocked by pharmacy. As pharmacy reviews and processes a medication order the order is passed to the patient's Pyxis electronic profile. When a nurse accesses the system the medication/s the patient is receiving appears on the screen. The nurse touches the screen and a drawer opens giving the nurse the patient's medication. Pyxis decreases the chance of a nurse selecting the incorrect medication.

When it comes time to administer the medication the nurse will scan the patient's identification band and the medication. If the patient and/or medication are not correct, the system will let the nurse know so an error can be avoided. Having worked at a large academic medical center prior to coming to Gila Regional, Ray Goellner Director of Pharmacy states, "We can be proud of what we have accomplished as we are years ahead of most other hospitals."

Gila Regional Medical Center is working to be the best place to receive care, to work and to practice medicine.

GRMC Auxiliary MAP Team

Get Help with Medication Costs and Medicare D Questions

The Medication Assistance Program (MAP) is staffed by the GRMC Auxiliary. MAP volunteers help people who can't afford their medications fill out applications to the pharmaceutical companies that make the needed drugs.

MAP volunteers are available at Silver Health Care on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Call and leave a message at 575-956-1330.

Find out how ►