Healthcare in Yuma
Yuma has real, substantial in-city acute-care hospital access through Yuma Regional Medical Center (now operating as Onvida Health) -- a large, 406-bed teaching hospital, not just a small community facility, giving the area genuinely deep local healthcare infrastructure for its population size.
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Learn moreYuma Regional Medical Center / Onvida Health: a large, real facility
Yuma Regional Medical Center, now operating as Onvida Health, is a 406-bed not-for-profit hospital with more than 2,000 employees and 300+ medical providers, offering emergency care, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and women's health services -- a genuinely substantial facility relative to Yuma's roughly 107,000 year-round population.
A real teaching hospital with cancer-specific care
In 2013, the hospital became a teaching facility with a graduate medical education program in Family and Community Medicine, and in July 2014 it opened the Yuma Regional Cancer Center for comprehensive local cancer care -- real infrastructure that reduces the need to travel to Phoenix or Tucson for many oncology needs.
Serving both the year-round and seasonal winter-visitor populations
Given Yuma's real ~90,000-person seasonal winter-visitor influx (see demographics), local healthcare demand -- especially for the area's substantial older/retiree-aged winter-visitor population -- runs measurably higher November through April than the hospital's baseline year-round service population alone would suggest.
MCAS Yuma has its own separate military medical infrastructure
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma maintains its own on-base medical facilities for active-duty personnel and, in some cases, dependents -- a separate healthcare channel from Onvida Health's civilian hospital system, relevant for military-connected residents to understand as a distinct resource alongside civilian options.
Key takeaways
- Yuma Regional Medical Center (now Onvida Health) is a 406-bed not-for-profit hospital with 2,000+ employees and 300+ medical providers -- a substantial facility for Yuma's population size.
- The hospital has operated as a teaching facility (Family and Community Medicine GME program) since 2013 and opened the Yuma Regional Cancer Center in 2014, adding real local specialty-care depth.
- Local healthcare demand rises measurably during the winter snowbird season given the area's real ~90,000-person seasonal population increase.
- MCAS Yuma maintains separate on-base medical facilities for military-connected residents, distinct from the civilian Onvida Health system.
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