La Paz Regional Hospital Offers Emergency Care, Specialty Clinics to County Residents

La Paz Regional Hospital, located at 1200 West Mohave Road in Parker, has been serving La Paz County for over forty years and describes itself as the Western Gateway to Arizona, California and Nevada. As a not-for-profit, 25-bed Critical Access Hospital, it anchors healthcare for a county whose population is spread across river corridors, desert communities, and seasonal visitor populations that swell each winter.

A Full-Service Hospital in a Rural Setting

The hospital provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care and outpatient surgery. Its cath lab operates five days a week, supporting cardiac patients who would otherwise need to travel hours to a larger metro facility. The Physical Therapy/Rehab center offers rehabilitation services, including cardiac rehab, and outpatient antibiotic therapy is offered routinely at the hospital, reducing the need for extended inpatient stays.

Urgent care services are available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., reachable directly at (928) 669-7443. The main hospital line is (928) 669-9201, and the facility's fax is 928.669.7417. For a county where the next nearest hospital can be a significant drive, these weekday urgent care hours fill a critical gap between primary care and emergency room visits.

Telemedicine: Mayo Clinic Neurology, Remotely

One of the hospital's most significant capabilities for a rural facility is its participation in the Mayo Clinic TeleStroke and TeleNeurology programs, offering routine and emergency access to top Mayo Clinic neurologists via telecommunications telemedicine. For stroke patients in particular, where minutes determine outcomes, this partnership means residents in Parker and surrounding communities do not have to wait for a transfer to access specialist-level neurological assessment. The program covers both routine neurology consultations and emergent stroke care, a combination that would be unusual in a hospital of this size without a telemedicine partnership of this caliber.

Specialty Clinics Rotating Across the County

Beyond the main Parker campus, the hospital owns and operates rural health clinics, outpatient labs and specialty clinics in Parker, Salome, Quartzsite and Bouse. The hospital manages a specialty clinic that encourages specialists to rotate to La Paz County for orthopedics, surgical services, ENT, and other specialties, bringing care directly to communities rather than requiring residents to drive to Phoenix or Yuma.

La Paz Regional Hospital's clinics are committed to serving the needs of the communities and many winter visitors who travel here from around the country. That seasonal population, the so-called snowbirds who fill the Colorado River corridor each fall and spring, represents a substantial share of the clinic patient base and shapes how the hospital plans its specialty rotation schedules.

Clinic Locations and Contact Information

The hospital network spans several communities across La Paz County. Each location operates independently enough to serve its local population, while remaining connected to the broader La Paz Regional system.

In Parker, four locations operate under the hospital's umbrella:

• La Paz Regional Hospital, 1200 W. Mohave Road, (928) 669-9201
• Urgent Care, 1200 W. Mohave Road, (928) 669-7443
• River Health Clinic, 1200 W. Mohave Road, (928) 669-7380
• Parker Podiatry, 1713 Kofa Ave., (928) 669-3033

Outside Parker, three additional clinics serve the county's more remote communities:

• La Paz Medical Services, 150 E. Tyson Road, Quartzsite, (928) 927-8747
• TriValley Medical Center, 39726 Harquahala Mine Road, Salome, (928) 859-3460
• Bouse Medical Clinic, 44031 E. Plomosa Road, Bouse, (928) 851-2177

The hospital also serves residents in the surrounding California communities of Big River and Earp, reflecting the geographic reality that county and state lines do not always match the contours of where people live and seek care.

Emergency Services: EMS, Fire, and Air Ambulance

Hospital-based care is only part of the emergency health infrastructure in La Paz County. Three affiliated agencies handle pre-hospital and transport services for the region.

River Medical provides EMS coverage for Parker and Quartzsite, along with Kingman, Golden Valley, and Lake Havasu. The agency operates out of 415 El Camino Way in Lake Havasu City (86403) and can be reached at (928) 855-4104, with a dispatch line at (928) 855-3428 and email at rivermedical@amr.net.

The Buckskin Fire Department, led by Fire Chief Chris Chambers, maintains two stations in Parker: Station 11 at 8500 Riverside Drive and Station 211 at 3350 Parker Dam Road. Both stations share a mailing address at 8500 Riverside Drive, Parker, AZ 85344. The department's main line is 928-667-3321, and more information is available at Buckskinfiredepartment.com.

For critical patients requiring rapid transport, Tri-State Care Flight provides fixed-wing and helicopter transport out of Bullhead City, Arizona. Its rotor wing EMS services run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with the exception of neonatal and maternal patients. The emergency contact number is 1-800-800-0900, and the agency is based at 2000 Hwy 95, Suite 210, Bullhead City, AZ 86442.

Leadership and Critical Access Designation

La Paz Regional Hospital is led by Chief Executive Officer Zafer Genc. The hospital holds Critical Access Hospital designation, a federal classification designed to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and ensure access to care in communities that would otherwise struggle to sustain a hospital. That designation took effect October 23, 2013, according to the Center for Rural Health's Arizona listing.

The Critical Access designation carries practical meaning for patients: it shapes reimbursement structures that help the hospital maintain services that a purely market-driven facility might abandon in a low-density county. For La Paz County residents, it is part of what has kept a full-service hospital operating locally for more than four decades rather than forcing a two-hour drive to the nearest urban medical center.