In 1979, twenty physicians joined together to build a hospital that would serve the healthcare needs of their community. Since then, Southwest General has expanded to 327-beds.

Southwest General offers comprehensive healthcare services, including a strong surgery program, advanced diagnostics and imaging, wound care and hyperbaric services. The hospital has a busy emergency medicine program, and recently expanded its ER to better serve the community.

The BirthPlace at Southwest General is one of the busiest maternity programs in the area. In August of 2007, The Birthplace went through a major renovation and expansion that added six additional labor, delivery, and recovery (LDR) suites, increasing existing capacity to 17 rooms. In addition, 14 postpartum suites were constructed, bringing capacity from 20 rooms to 34 rooms. The Level III Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit will increase from a 10 bed unit to a 34 bed unit utilizes the entire second floor of The BirthPlace. The project has added approximately 26,920 square feet to The BirthPlace.

In addition to the expansion of The Birthplace, Southwest General also added three state-of-the-art digital operating suites, enhancing their surgical services offerings. These new digital suites include touch screen and voice activated control of operating room equipment, boom technology that suspends surgical equipment from the ceiling to allow for more freedom of movement, and broadcast capabilities for videotape archiving of surgical procedures.

In the summer of 2008. Southwest General will expand its cardiology services by offering its first ever interventional cardiology and heart surgery program. The hospital will be performing a wide spectrum of cardiac diagnostic and surgical procedures in its new cardiac catheterization lab.