Mat-Su Regional Medical Center

Mat-Su Regional Medical Center
Community Health Systems
Geography
Location	Gateway,Matanuska-Susitna Borough,Alaska,United States
Coordinates	61°33′45″N149°15′29″W
Organization
Care system	Community Health Systems
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	125
History
Opened	2006
Links
Website	www.matsuregional
Lists	Hospitals in Alaska

Mat-Su Regional Medical Centeris a 125-bedgeneral hospitalin theU.S. stateofAlaska.[1]The hospital is owned byCommunity Health Systems(CHS).[2]Located in theGatewaycensus-designated place,betweenPalmerandWasilla,it is the principal hospital for theMatanuska-Susitna Borough.Owing to its location a short distance from theinterchangeof theGlennandParks Highways,Mat-Su Regional (along with the hospital onJoint Base Elmendorf-Richardsonfor those eligible to receive care there) serves as a principal hospital for many of the Glenn Highway communities in northernAnchorage,such asChugiak,Eagle River,Eklutnaand Peters Creek.

View of a corridor inside the hospital.

Built at a cost of $87,700,000 to replace the aging Valley Hospital in downtown Palmer, construction on the hospital began in spring 2004. The hospital opened on January 27, 2006. The three-story, 197,690 square feet (18,366 m²) facility contains fifty medical/surgical beds and eight each ofintensive care,progressive care, andobstetricbeds, all in private rooms. There are fouroperating rooms,plus a fifth designated forCaesarean sections.The unfinished third floor provides room for a sixth operating room and 52 more general beds.

Mat-Su Regional also operates a largeoutpatient clinicon the edge of downtown Wasilla, next toWasilla High School(61°35′10.6″N149°25′33.8″W).

In 2008,Sarah Palin,then thegovernor of Alaska(and future Republican vice-presidential nominee), gave birth to her son Trig at Mat-Su Regional.