It is a General Acute Care Hospital in Indio with Basic Emergency Services as of 2006.

[1] One of three hospitals in the Coachella Valley, it has one of the state's busiest maternity wards.

[citation needed] In 2005, it opened a new maternity center as part of a hospital expansion plan for more surgical rooms, intensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport.

Valley Memorial was originally known as Casita Hospital (until it was renamed in mid-1964) and had opened in the late 1940s.

[6][7][8] Tenet (then known as National Medical Enterprises) purchased the hospital in June 1979.