Medical Center of South Arkansas, accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is a general acute-care hospital licensed by the Arkansas Department of Health. The 166-bed facility’s inpatient services include obstetrics and newborn care (with neonatal intensive care), medical care surgical care, pediatric care, intensive care, intermediate care, recuperative care, physical medicine and rehabilitation.

The Med Center is also home to the Heart and Vascular Institute. The Cardiovascular Services Center, located on the campus of the Medical Center of South Arkansas, is a regional leader in cardiovascular care, offering one of the largest and most comprehensive programs, from cardiac to interventional to surgical care. Our physicians and advanced treatment programs keep our patients closer to home by providing the right heart care, right here.

A Women’s Center is also located on campus and provides healthcare to women in our community and surrounding areas. It also boasts one of the only Neonatal Specialty Care Units in the state, for even the tiniest and most critical patients.

Outpatient services include one-day surgery, speech therapy, physical and occupational therapies, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, wound care, a gastroenterology laboratory, radiation therapy. Other support services include home health care and senior health center.

With more than 40 million dollars in facility and equipment improvements since 1996, this modern facility provides state-of-the-art technologies, including open MRI, PET imaging, interventional radiology and digital mammography with CAD over-read capabilities. The Med Center has more than 100 primary care and specialty physicians on staff, providing a wide range of medical and surgical specialties.

Chaplaincy Services and Education at MCSA provides spiritual care, emotional support and crisis ministry to Medical Center of South Arkansas patients, their families and MCSA employees.

MCSA is also proud to claim some of the most dedicated, compassionate and supportive citizens of the El Dorado area as our volunteers, members of the hospital Auxiliary. Ready and willing at all times to lend a hand, heart or ear to our patients and visitors on a daily basis, the MCSA Auxiliary is one of our best assets. You will see their smiles at several main areas of the hospital: the information desk, the ICU waiting room, the one day surgery waiting room, and outpatient waiting room. The Auxiliary also delivers items for the pharmacy; provides telephone service for homebound, ensuring daily needs are provided or available; operates the hospital gift shop and as well as uniform shop. All proceeds from the shops are directly placed into the hospital for needed items to better serve our patients.