Healthcare & Safety in Gardnerville
Gardnerville offers real, concrete local healthcare access via Carson Valley Health, a critical access hospital affiliated with Barton Health -- while crime runs genuinely above national averages on overall and property measures, disclosed honestly here.
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Learn moreA real, concrete local hospital -- Carson Valley Health
Carson Valley Health (formerly Carson Valley Medical Center) is a 25-licensed-bed critical access hospital in Gardnerville, with all inpatient and ICU rooms private starting Fall 2024. It operates a Level IV Trauma Center emergency department plus outpatient/inpatient surgical services (internal medicine, orthopedics, women's health, cardiology), five off-site primary care clinics, an urgent care, and outpatient/complementary services -- solely aligned with Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe and Stateline (Carson Valley Health official pages, retrieved 2026-08-25). This is a real healthcare anchor genuinely distinct from anything documented for Fernley, Dayton, Sun Valley, or Spanish Springs in this same pass.
Crime runs genuinely above national averages -- disclosed honestly
Gardnerville's overall crime rate (10 per 1,000, a 1-in-99 victim chance) and property crime rate (43.2, vs. a cited national average of 35.4) both run above cited national averages (NeighborhoodScout, retrieved 2026-08-25). Violent crime (4.423 per 1,000) is described in source material as safer than the Nevada state average but less safe than the national average -- a real, disclosed tension kept here rather than silently resolved.
A separate, more favorable framing also exists
A separate source described Gardnerville as relatively low-crime compared to similarly sized communities -- both this more favorable framing and the above-national-average figures are disclosed together rather than either alone.
No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe
Per this dataset's site policy, no specific neighborhood within Gardnerville is called out as higher- or lower-crime here -- confirm current, address-specific data directly with NeighborhoodScout, CrimeGrade, or the Douglas County Sheriff's Office before relocating.
Key takeaways
- Carson Valley Health (25 beds, Level IV Trauma Center, Barton Health-affiliated) is a real, concrete local healthcare anchor.
- Crime runs genuinely above cited national averages on overall (10/1,000) and property (43.2) measures -- disclosed honestly.
- Violent crime specifically carries a real, disclosed tension: safer than the Nevada state average, less safe than the national average per the same source.
- No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe here, per site policy -- confirm current, address-specific data directly.
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