Facilities

Sunrise Hospital opened its doors on December 14, 1958, at a cost of $1.5 million, with 62 beds. It was designed by Hugh E. Taylor, built by Irwin Molasky, Merv Adelson and partners.

It is interesting to note that the teamsters union was instrumental in making Sunrise Hospital a success in its early days.

• “Early Teamsters pension fund forays into Las Vegas had little to do with gaming … Teamsters money funded the Sunrise Hospital … [Jimmy] Hoffa ensured its profitability by delivering Teamsters union health care contracts to the new hospital.”

In 2018, the 60th anniversary of Sunrise Hospital, they started a $250 million expansion that would bring the total number of rooms to 764.

This page presents a small sample of photos of the facilities, waiting areas, patient rooms and furnishings at Sunrise Hospital. These photos are posted online by Sunrise Hospital patients and visitors in the public domain.

INTENSIVE SECURITY PROCEDURES

As a reminder, Sunrise Hospital has intensive security procedures. There are armed guards, metal detectors and a large number of cameras. They sometimes search your body and your belongings.

Another concerning security measure is that elevators on the first floor are locked at all times. You have to check in at another desk -- near the gift shop -- so they can decide if they will unlock the elevator for you. What if there is an emergency?

Tips from visitors

• It has been reported that many visitors know how to bypass the security process at the elevators by simply waiting for someone else to go into the elevator.
• There was one report of a patient (possibly someone under arrest), being escorted by two security guards. The patient tried to jump into an open elevator with visitors. If that patient was a security risk, why was the patient allowed near visitors or the elevators?
• Go through the valet area (instead of the Emergency Department) because the security process at valet is minimal.
• The security team in the Emergency Department often skips procedures in order to move the line (or maybe just because they feel like taking a break). For example, they do not always ask for your ID or for the patient number and do not always take your picture.
• Follow the crowd, like you would do at a concert or airport. Security will assume you are with a family or other visitors.

Visiting a patient who is upstairs, in an inpatient room

The next step in your journey to find your loved one in a patient room also has an extra security process. When you finally reach the patient floors, the doors are locked. You have to step up to the camera and push a button. When someone responds, you have to provide the patient name and room number.

• Another tip from visitors: It has been reported that many visitors bypass this step by walking through the door with employees or other visitors.

Download a PDF version of the Sunrise Hospital campus map.

Read this comment posted by Patient-41 who was a patient at Sunrise Hospital for 3 weeks --- so they definitely had time to witness these bad conditions:

• Bathrooms are out of order all time! The same elevators are used for doctors, patients, visitors, janitors, food services, and construction workers trying to fix the plumbing.

If you have additional photos of the facilities or patient rooms (or comments about the condition of the facilities) from your visit to Sunrise Hospital and would like to post them on this website, please contact us.