THE HOSPITAL
National Park Medical Center is a 166-bed acute care facility that provides service to a fivecounty area, including Garland, Hot Springs, Montgomery, Pike and Clark counties. The facility, accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), provides a wide range of services, including The Regional Heart Center, The Breast Center, Rehabilitation, Emergency Services, Outpatient Services, ICU, Diagnostic Imaging Services, The Family Maternity Center, Physical Therapy, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Home Healthcare, Medical and Surgical Nursing Units, Pediatrics and a Skilled Nursing Facility.

THE COMMUNITY
Known as America’s First Resort, Hot Springs is a city alive with activity. Downtown features a number of art galleries and antique shops and serves as host for the nationally recognized Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and Hot Springs Music Festival. Oaklawn Park is the site of exciting thoroughbred racing,
and Garvan Woodland Gardens is a magical 210-acre botanical garden surrounded by Lake Hamilton. The Hot Springs Convention Center is a stateof-
the-art concert and sports arena, and the Magic Springs and Crystal Falls Theme and Water Park offers summertime family fun and a summer concert series. Hot Springs National Park, the first federally protected area in the nation’s history, features 147- degree thermal water flowing year-round from 47 hot springs.

From pre-historic times, people have traveled to these natural thermal springs to bathe and relax. Located at the center of the city, the centerpiece of Hot Springs National Park is Bath House Row. Built in 1832 and now recognized as a National Historic Landmark District, it features eight bath houses and is an architectural showcase for a wide range of styles, from Neoclassical Revival and Renaissance
Revival to Spanish and Italianate. Hot Springs is home of the Arkansas School
for Mathematics, Sciences and Arts (ASMSA), the premier high school in the state. At this public residential high school, academically advanced juniors and seniors are taught at a college level, using only college textbooks, by a highly qualified faculty.

RECREATION
Hot Springs is surrounded by abundant opportunities for camping, mountain biking, hiking, horseback riding and water skiing. There are 17 championship
golf courses in the area and four major tournament lakes for fishing. The mountains surrounding the city are part of the Ouachita National Forest, one of the oldest and most scenic in the nation, with plenty of trails that take avid hikers to spectacular overlooks. Within the city, there are 19 parks and seven miles of hiking trails.

LOCAL POINTS OF INTEREST

• Downtown Hot Springs – known as America’s First Resort, features a host of
  art galleries and antique shops
• Oaklawn Park – thoroughbred racing & home of the “Racing Festival of the South”
• Hot Springs National Park – 147- degree thermal water flowing year-round from 47 hot springs. Includes Bath House Row, a National Historic Landmark
• Championship Golf Courses
• Theme Parks – Magic Springs and Crystal Falls
• Several lakes and streams
  
  

DISTANCE TO MAJOR CITIES
Little Rock, Arkansas . . . . .54
Texarkana, Arkansas . . . . 111
Fayetteville, Arkansas . . . 185
Memphis, Tennessee . . . . 188