The Emergency Department at Valley Baptist Medical Center- Harlingen is an award winning facility providing state of the art treatment for medical, trauma, cardiac and stroke care.

We are the lead level III trauma department for the Rio Grande Valley treating around 42,000 patients per year. The Emergency Department is divided into three treatment areas:
 
Acute, Urgent and Fast Track with 60 hours of physician coverage. Acute Myocardial Infarctions are taken directly to the cath lab with the average time of 43 minutes. Trauma codes are seen by the Trauma Surgeon and team within 30 minutes, and acute Strokes are treated with TPA if they are candidates. We are also a teaching facility with both Family Practice and Internal Medicine Residents.