HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health GME-Southern Hills Program

Program Identity & Fit

Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center is a community, HCA Healthcare-affiliated hospital in southwest Las Vegas whose GME enterprise began in 2017 with family medicine as its inaugural residency, later expanding to transitional year, psychiatry, neurology and addiction medicine, reflecting an institution building out a multi-specialty training footprint rather than a long-established academic program. The clinical environment is a full-service community hospital with a Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, Level III NICU, dedicated orthopedic/spine unit, and an 80-bed behavioral health unit, giving family medicine residents exposure to a broad range of acute and specialty inpatient services alongside primary care training. There is no evidence of a dedicated research infrastructure, protected research time, or named research tracks; the program's public materials emphasize clinical service growth, quality/safety recognition, and hospital-wide patient experience rather than scholarly output. As an HCA community teaching hospital without an academic medical center identity, the program's structure points toward producing broadly capable, practice-ready family physicians suited to community and hospital-based primary care rather than physician-scientists.