With the opening of its new facility in 1999, GCRMC became the first hospital in the United States shared by active-duty military personnel and civilians.

[7] It has 99 beds[2] on a 65-acre (260,000 m2) campus and facilities for MRI, CAT scan, dialysis, and sleep disorder studies, and has a medical laboratory on site.

[8][9] A Southwest Med Evac air ambulance helicopter, stationed full-time at the hospital, is used to transport patients from the mountain areas to GCRMC, and to transport patients from GCRMC to hospitals in El Paso, Las Cruces, and Albuquerque.

[9] Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital was built at the corner of Tenth Street and Cuba Avenue in Alamogordo and was dedicated on Sunday, July 31, 1949[13] and officially opened for business on Tuesday, August 2, with 24 beds.

[17] The hospital moved to a new building on Scenic Drive near the New Mexico State University Alamogordo campus in 1999,[18] and changed its name to Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center.