Amarillo, Texas

===Medical centers and hospitals===
[[File:Amarillo Texas USA - Harrington Regional Medical Center.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|The Harrington Regional Medical Center has two of the city's major hospitals.]]
Amarillo is home to medical facilities including Baptist St. Anthony's and Northwest Texas Hospitals, the Don & Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, Bivins Memorial Nursing Home, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech School of Pharmacy, and Texas Panhandle Mental Health and Mental Retardation. All are located in the Harrington Regional Medical Center, the first specifically designated city hospital district in Texas.<ref>{{Handbook of Texas|id=sbhfz|name=Harrington Regional Medical Center}}. Retrieved on January 25, 2007.</ref>

Baptist St. Anthony's, known locally as BSA, had some of its services listed on the ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''{{-'}}s "Top 50 Hospitals" from 2002 to 2005.<ref>{{cite news |author=Schwarz, George |title=BSA facilities receive honors |date=July 8, 2005 |work=Amarillo Globe-News |url=http://amarillo.com/stories/070805/new_2305721.shtml|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref> BSA was a result of a merger between the Texas Panhandle's first hospital, St Anthony's, with High Plains Baptist Hospital in 1996.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hernandez, Basil |title=Harrington Cancer Center joining BSA |date=March 23, 2006 |work=Amarillo Globe-News |url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/032306/new_4286261.shtml|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref> The BSA Hospice & Life Enrichment Center provides important services to the Amarillo area. The BSA facility, opened in 1985, was the first free-standing hospice west of the [[Mississippi River]] to be built and opened without debt.<ref>{{cite news |author=Feduris, Marlene |title=Officials unveil book about city's hospice care |date=September 18, 2002 |work=Amarillo Globe-News |url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/091802/new_unveilbook.shtml|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref>

[[File:Tttu amarillo.JPG|thumb|Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center]]
Northwest Texas Hospital is home to the area's only Level III designated trauma center.

The [[Thomas E. Creek]] Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located east of Harrington Regional Medical Center. The facility opened in 1940 and was renamed in 2005, honoring the 18-year-old Amarillo Marine who was posthumously awarded the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref>{{cite web |author= Library of Congress – Congressional Records |url= http://icreport.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r108:H13SE4-0025: |title= Thomas E. Creek Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center – (House of Representatives – September 13, 2004) |access-date= April 17, 2006 |archive-date= June 30, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140630173028/http://icreport.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r108:H13SE4-0025: |url-status= dead }}</ref> Construction began in 2006 for a new Texas State Veterans Home in northwest Amarillo. The United States government, through the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, provided the funding to build the facility, while the Texas government will run it after construction is completed.<ref>{{cite news |author=Cunningham, Greg |title=Veterans home on its way |date=March 11, 2005 |work=Amarillo Globe-News |url=http://amarillo.com/stories/031105/new_1466138.shtml|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref> The Ussery-Roan Texas State Veterans Home opened in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amarillo |url=https://vlb.texas.gov/veterans-homes/locations/amarillo/index.html |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=vlb.texas.gov |quote=The Ussery-Roan Texas State Veterans Home opened in 2007...}}</ref>