Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, an affiliate of Mercy Healthcare Sacramento, is western Nevada County's only acute care facility, and has served area residents since 1958. Services include acute medical and surgical, emergency, urgent, rehabilitative, OB/GYN, and outpatient care. The hospital also provides ambulance service, home care, and transitional care, plus radiation and medical oncology for cancer patients. Most recently, SNMH opened a cardiac catheterization/angiography lab.
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital offers access to the SNMH Health Sciences Library, continuing and medical education for healthcare professionals, diabetes classes, prenatal classes, cancer support groups, a cancer information line and family caregiver classes. In addition, there are more than 80 primary and specialty care physicians on SNMH's active and associate medical staff.