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For 125 years, we have come to the aid of those in need …daughters, sons, mothers and fathers, family, friends and neighbors.

We have innovated better ways to care for you today …and we educate those who will one day take our place to ensure your care tomorrow.

We stand ready to respond and ready to serve in crisis and in celebration …to partner with you to find health and hope.

Why? Because you matter. You are our neighbor. Your life is precious and filled with potential.
You inspire us to dig deeper, climb higher and go further in our effort to help you back to health …
and teach you how to stay there.

We stand ready to respond and ready to serve in crisis and in celebration …to partner with you to find health and hope.

Why? Because you matter. You are our neighbor. Your life is precious and filled with potential.
You inspire us to dig deeper, climb higher and go further in our effort to help you back to health …
and teach you how to stay there.

We are Riverside University Health System …and we serve because you matter.

The County of Riverside established the hospital that would become the heart of the County’s healthcare safety net in 1893 …just two months after the County was founded.

Originally housed in a downtown Riverside hotel, the hospital quickly outgrew the hotel property and, in 1895, moved to a larger hotel in City of San Jacinto. One fire, one earthquake and five years later,
the hospital was moved back to the city of Riverside where it would remain for the next ninety-eight years.

Wars, depressions, epidemics including the Spanish flu and Tuberculosis combined with dramatic population growth tested the County hospital’s ability to fulfill its mission. Through it all, it grew to become what residents needed it to be. The hospital became known as an innovator in medical care
becoming the first in the County to achieve Joint Commission accreditation and is the County’s first teaching hospital.

Today, R-U-H-S trains thousands of physicians nurses and health professionals each year.

In the mid-1980’s, it was clear the hospital had outgrown the Riverside campus. Plans were developed to relocate the hospital to 105-acres of land in Moreno Valley. The new 520,000-square foot structure would offer more than double the space of the old Riverside hospital allowing for twice the patient volume …and it was built to withstand earthquakes that threatened to level the old hospital buildings.

In 1998, the army of physicians, nurses, staff and patients took up occupancy in the new facility whose design and technical features had earned it the California Association of Public Hospital’s “County Hospital Innovation Award”.

In the years that followed, the County’s population more than doubled and the wisdom of investment proved itself. In 2015, the hospital, the County’s network of community health centers
as well as its departments of Behavioral and Public Health merged into the single entity we now know as Riverside University Health System.

Adaptation and innovation are central to the fulfillment of Riverside University Health System’s mission to provide for the health and healthcare of the communities we serve. Today, Riverside University Health System is taking the necessary next steps to ensure its ability to provide the region convenient access to the quality care for which it has become known.

The new Medical Office Building on the Moreno Valley campus will provide advanced outpatient care tailored to our community’s unique needs. More room to provide care will reduce the time patients wait to receive care and will enable R-U-H-S to more efficiently satisfy the healthcare needs of a growing region.

To bring care closer to home, R-U-H-S is improving and expanding its emergency services
and network of community health centers. New clinics in Corona, Jurupa Valley and Moreno Valley
have been designed as convenient one-stop-shops that offer both medical and mental health as well as pharmacy services. Combined with its existing clinics located in the County’s population centers, residents and visitors are never far from the convenient and compassionate care R-U-H-S provides.

Whatever changes and challenges the future may bring, we will continue to adapt … continue to innovate … continue to educate … continue to care.

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RUHS Medical Center
​​​From our humble beginnings in 1893 as Riverside County’s first general hospital, Riverside University Health System – Medical Center stands today as a pillar of excellence in health care​ and medical education in the region.​

We provide exceptional care in specialties such as pediatrics, obstetrics and psychiatry, and in the treatment of diabetes and hepatitis C. The Medical Center is a designated Stroke Center, Level II Trauma C​enter, and the only Pediatric ICU in the region.​

The Future of Care
Riverside University Health System’s vision is to expand the current campus to increase services available to our patients and our community, giving them ready access to outpatient care and other services near the hospital. This expansion will improve patient health care by making services more convenient, available, and cost-effective.​
http://www.ruhealth.org