In 1986, the South Central Colfax County Special Hospital District ( SCCCSHD) was formed to bring health care providers and services to rural communities of Colfax County. At that time there was a small general hospital in Springer and no medical providers in either Cimarron or Angel Fire. Over the years, we have converted the hospital to a 33 bed Nursing Facility, opened the Cimarron Healthcare Clinic with one physician and one Physician Assistant, and opened the Moreno Valley Healthcare Clinic with one Family Physician and two Family Nurse Practitioners. We are also operating a full service Laboratory that covers the entire county.
The hospital district area of operations is based upon the school district boundaries for Maxwell, Springer and Cimarron School Districts. We cover almost 3,100 square miles with a service population of 6,000. This is considered Frontier Medicine when you compare this area on a national basis. The nearest General Acute Hospital is in Raton, Miner’s Colfax Medical Center which is 35 miles from Springer and 60 miles from Cimarron. Holy Cross Hospital in Taos is the closest hospital for the Moreno Valley and it is over 30 miles away through mountain canyons