Palo Pinto General Hospital is the primary, countywide provider of healthcare for Palo Pinto, west of Fort Worth, with more than 28,000 residents.
PPGH, based in Mineral Wells, has moved to position itself to our community as more than just an acute care hospital and as a critically needed, countywide resource to help foster wellness and combat higher incidences of disease common in rural communities.
Palo Pinto County covers more than 950 square miles, and the county’s population is nearly double that of Mineral Wells, PPGH’s home base.
“With such a spread across the region, we have pushed our services out into the county,” says Ross Korkmas, PPGH’s chief executive officer.
In 2021, PPGH opened a family care clinic at Possum Kingdom Lake, the third clinic outside Mineral Wells. PPGH also has family care clinics in Mineral Wells, Gordon and Santo and an urgent care clinic in Mineral Wells.
Our Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission: Dedicated to promoting optimal health and well-being of the entire community by providing patient and family centered, quality healthcare in a respectful and safe environment.
Vision: To become the preferred provider of higher-quality, safe patient care for the communities we serve.
Values:
- Ethical
- Patient and Family Focused
- Trusted
- Compassion
- Honesty
- Integrity
Our Services
Our physicians practice a range of specialties. They include family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics, surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, pain management, radiology, infectious diseases, podiatry, critical care, pulmonology, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine. We also offer a pulmonary telehealth clinic that helps address disease that’s a major cause of mortality in Palo Pinto County.
If you have to be in the hospital, it’s our goal to make sure you have the best experience and to get you home in the least amount of time possible. Our “swing bed” unit at the hospital offers rehab and skilled nursing.
Our network offers immediate and primary care with diagnostic assessments, women’s services, men’s health, lab draws and more with several convenient locations. Please see the hours of operation and contact information below.
Highlighted Services
- Cardiac stress testing
- Cardiopulmonary/respiratory services
- Digital imaging
- Echocardiography
- Emergency department
- Hospitalist program
- Intensive care/critical care unit
- Interventional radiology
- Labor and delivery
- Laboratory
- Level IV trauma center
- MRI
- Nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology
- Pacemaker monitoring
- Surgery
- Swing bed
- Teleintensivist services
Specialties
- Cardiology
- Family practice
- Gastroenterology
- General surgery
- Gynecology
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Pain management
- Pediatrics
- Physical therapy
- Podiatry
- Radiology
- Urology
- Wound Care
Community Healthcare
Mineral Wells currently has approximately 17,000 residents, but the treatment coverage area PPGH assumes is close to 10,000 square miles and 100,000 people. The needs and demands for healthcare have grown, the facilities have expanded and the promise to continue to meet needs remains.