About Prowers Medical Center

At Prowers Medical Center, we are proud to be your leader in complete, compassionate care. We continue to enhance our facilities and grow our services to meet your healthcare needs. We are dedicated to always putting you at the center of all we do.

Upholding privacy standards and providing nondiscriminatory care is highly valued at Prowers Medical Center. Please view our notice of privacy practices.

Prowers Medical Center at a Glance

200 Total Team Members
14 Providers
16 Specialty Clinic Providers
71 Nurses, CNAs, MAs
115 Support Staff
25+ Auxiliary Members

Our History

Thanks to Charles Maxwell, a former resident, Lamar opened its first hospital in 1920, called Charles Maxwell Hospital. In 1946, the Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception purchased the hospital and renamed it Sacred Heart Hospital. In 1967, the sisters announced that they planned to close the hospital due to lack of funding, prompting the formation of the Prowers County Hospital District. The district assumed responsibility and renamed the hospital Prowers Medical Center, and still operates the hospital today.

In 1978, a new facility was built, with three major additions over the years. The hospital added primary care clinics, including High Plains Community Health Center and the Holly Medical Clinic.

Today’s campus includes 25 private patient rooms, 4 family birthing rooms, an outpatient sleep study laboratory, a special care unit, a chapel, a healing garden, a visitors’ welcome center, a gift shop, state-of-the-art operating rooms, advanced emergency services, a large rehabilitation gym, and an advanced radiology department with digital mammography, CT scan, MRI and a digital X-ray suite.

Prowers Medical Center is a certified CMS Critical Access Hospital, and was named a Top 100 Critical Care Hospital in 2020. Prowers Medical Center is DNV-GL Accredited, an accomplishment that signifies we have met strict national standards of care for quality and patient safety.

“The team at Prowers Medical Center demonstrates a strong commitment each day to provide quality health care and the best overall patient experience for our community.

Recognizing you have a choice on where to go for your medical needs, we are grateful you choose Prowers Medical Center. Your ongoing support allows us to do what we do best — caring for, healing and helping our family, friends and neighbors.

We continuously work to develop priorities that address the needs identified by our community, demonstrate an informed approach based on the evolving health care environment, and allow us to be mindful of our financial outlook.

We strive to better educate and inform individuals about the accessibility to the many health-related resources and services available within our health care community. We invite you to share your patient experience with us so we can continue to grow and strengthen our ability to meet your health care needs.

As an organization, there are many opportunities before us. By working together, being thoughtful and demonstrating a strategic mindset, we will achieve our primary goal of providing Complete, Compassionate Care.

Join us in this health care journey and help us to celebrate our many successes along the way. We look forward to serving you.”