Our History

If this is your first look at Valley View Regional Hospital, then "Welcome! We're here to help you." If not, "Welcome back friend! And thank you for being a part of our past, present and future!"

Valley View Regional Hospital, located in Ada, a thriving community in south central Oklahoma's Pontotoc County, began in 1938 as Valley View Hospital, a 50-bed community health facility.

The history of VVRH started years earlier, in 1935, as the inspiration of Dr. Earnest Canada, an area physician, and the enlisted help of Dr. C.C. Morris, a local minister, P.A. Norris, a prominent banker, and the Commonwealth Foundation of New York. After a community wide fundraiser to satisfy the Foundation's requirement for matching  funds, the hospital was built and accepted its first patients. 

As years passed by, the patients' needs outgrew the old hospital facility and a new medical center was constructed in 1986, on 34 acres on Ada's east side. The hospital now staffs approximately 700 employees, including professionals and medical personnel. Over 40 physicians provide 20 specialties and sub-specialties including general, orthopedic and plastic surgery, obstetrics, family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, oncology and urology. At least 86% of Valley View's physicians are board certified.

To better serve the needs of families within the hospital's 10-county service area, a satellite clinic--The Medical Center of Stratford, in Stratford, Oklahoma--and a west-side EMS facility in Ada, were put in operation.

Valley View is a not-for-profit, acute care general hospital. It is a member of the American Hospital Association, the Oklahoma Hospital Association and VHA, Inc., the nation's largest voluntary hospital health care system. The hospital is also accredited by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, or JCAHO.