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Welcome to Valley Baptist Health System

Welcome to the award-winning and nationally recognized Valley Baptist Health System.  Serving South Texas for nearly 100-years as a faith-based regional health system, Valley Baptist Medical Center – Brownsville, Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen and Valley Baptist Micro-Hospital – Weslaco, are supported by Free Standing Emergency Centers, the FIRST Comprehensive Stroke Center in the Valley, comprehensive stroke rehabilitation services, a specialized children’s unit with a dedicated pediatric emergency unit, a specialty women’s center, geriatric behavioral health clinic, breast center, heart and vascular clinic, community reference laboratories, family care clinics, fitness center, healthy women’s centers, imaging centers, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, neurology center, family practice residency clinic, a physician network, and the Valley Baptist School of Vocational Nursing.

From celebrating the birth of your newborn babies to restoring health or treating you in an emergency, we know that care is more than medicine.  Valley Baptist is focused on helping our community achieve health for life through compassionate service inspired by faith, prompted by kindness and, an experience based on excellence.

The Valley Baptist network of care features 866-beds and includes more than 500 physicians, which are supported by 3,500 clinical and non-clinical staff members.  And, it extends many of its services beyond its facilities and into local communities, offering free medical screenings, supporting groups and numerous educational opportunities.   

Valley Baptist – Built on a Community of Care and safety.  We are honored to have the opportunity to serve you.

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Over the last 100+ years, our commitment remains the same. To provide personalized care with the highest quality standards in mind. We serve the Rio Grande Valley with advanced health care that includes technological innovation, service and community engagement. Together, we are united by a common goal and a deep commitment to one another and to those we serve.

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Caring, nurturing and helping heal friends, loved ones and neighbors is our passion, and we’re honored to have the opportunity to serve you.

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Dr. Jose Nieves Performs 600th Robotic Procedure at Valley Baptist-Brownsville

Apr 18, 2024

For nearly two decades, Dr. Jose Nieves has been helping women from throughout the Brownsville community and beyond lead healthier, happier lives through his expertise as an obstetrician/gynecologist.

Nieves recently reached an impressive milestone in career, logging his 600th robotic-assisted surgery at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville in mid-February.

Valley Baptist-Brownsville has been the leader in da Vinci-assisted robotic surgery since 2012, when Nieves completed the first robotic-assisted operation in Brownsville, a total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

“Dr. Nieves has completed more than 400 hysterectomies and more than 130 advanced pelvic reconstruction operations, among other robotic-assisted procedures. Additionally, he has been instrumental in expanding this technology in the Valley by proctoring surgeons from Brownsville to Edinburg looking to add advanced robotic procedures to their armamentarium,” said Miriam Longoria, Valley Baptist-Brownsville’s Director of Women’s Services, Labor and Delivery, Obstetrics Operating Room, and Mother-Baby Unit.

When performing robotic procedures, surgeons like Nieves treat patients through just a few small incisions instead of a large open incision. Magnified, 3D high-definition vision helps surgeons see the surgical area more clearly. Tiny instruments bend and rotate to provide far greater mobility than a surgeon’s wrist in a traditional gynecological surgery. As a result, the surgeon operates with enhanced vision, precision, and control. Robotic-assisted surgery helps surgeons perform advanced operations with decreased pain and faster recovery associated to minimally invasive surgery.

Since 2012, Valley Baptist-Brownsville’s Robotic Surgery program has added general surgery, colorectal surgery, bariatric surgery, and urology to the specialties offering robotic-assisted surgical solutions to patients throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

“As we near the end of our 12th year providing da Vinci assisted surgery to the Brownsville community, Valley Baptist-Brownsville wishes to congratulate Dr. Nieves on such a remarkable milestone,” said Valley Baptist-Brownsville CEO Leslie Bingham. “We are incredibly grateful for his dedication to ensuring that we remain the most experienced Robotic Surgery program in Brownsville. That high level of experience equates to better care and better outcomes for our patients.”