History
The hospital district was founded July 5, 1949 through the efforts of the Business and Professional Women’s Club and the Lion’s Club, and was first located on the corner of Bush and Main Streets, directly south of the current location of Lone Pine Drug. It was licensed for nineteen beds and four bassinets.
On March 17th, 1955, the hospital moved to its present location, and was licensed for eighteen beds and four bassinets. At this time there were twenty-one full time employees. A new wing was completed on May 18th, 1964, and the hospital was accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals on June 5, 1964, after the new wing allowed it to expand its capacity above the required minimum of twenty-five beds. This expansion was accomplished through a $650,000 bond project.
Today, Southern Inyo Hospital is a Critical Access Hospital, a sole community provider and a frontier hospital. It currently has four acute care beds and thirty-three skilled nursing beds for a total of thirty-seven licensed beds. There are currently fifty-two fully time, seventeen part-time, and twenty-four per diem for a total of sixty-seven full time equivalents. The voters of the District recently passed a property tax measure which is allowing for the expansion of clinical and diagnostic services and further integration of health care into the community.
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Southern Inyo Healthcare District
501 E. Locust St.
P.O. Box 1009
Lone Pine, CA 93545
Main Number: (760)876-5501
Fax: (760)876-4388
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