Memorial Hermann Hospital
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| Memorial Hermann Healthcare System | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Non-profit |
| Hospital type | General and Teaching Hospital |
| Affiliated university | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 750 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1907 |
| Links | |
| Website | home page |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is composed of two separate hospital systems which formed in the late 1990s when the Memorial and Hermann systems joined. Both the Memorial and Hermann health care systems started in the early 1900s.
The Memorial Hospital System was started in 1907 by The Rev. Dennis Pevoto who purchased an 18-bed sanitarium in downtown Houston, calling it the Baptist Sanatorium. By the time he retired, it had become Memorial Hospital System, a 200-bed facility.
George H. Hermann died in 1914, leaving a large portion of his $2.6m estate for building and maintaining a hospital for the poor and sick of Houston. Hermann Hospital opened its doors in 1925, it also started a school of nursing that same year.
In 1985, Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox threatened the Hermann Hospital Board of Directors with law suits, alleging the Hospital was ignoring the primary intent of George H. Hermann's bequest, that is, to build and run a hospital to serve the poor of Houston. The trustees agreed to establish a $100,000,000 "Charity Care Endowment" to end the suits. Also about that time, the Harris County DA indicted 9 men and one woman for theft from the Hermann Hospital Estate. [Texas Hospital Association; Texas Monthly Feb-March 1986; LBJ School of Public Affairs Policy Reports]
The "Memorial Hermann" name was first used on November 4, 1997 after the Hermann Healthcare System and Memorial Healthcare System completed their merger, becoming the largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation.
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center (formerly known as Hermann Hospital before the 1997 merger with Memorial Health Care System) was opened in 1925. It is a hospital with a Level I trauma center rating located in Houston, Texas inside the Texas Medical Center; however, it is only one of a large system of hospitals and clinics located in and around Houston, in various neighborhoods as well as some suburbs.
This particular hospital is the one most commonly referred to, especially by the media as "Memorial Hermann Hospital" although there are several others bearing the same name. The different hospitals are distinguished by further designation indicating their location. (Texas Medical Center, Northwest, Southwest, Woodlands, etc.)
The Texas Medical Center hospital is home to Memorial Hermann Life Flight, an emergency and critical-care-transport aeromedical service. Founded in 1976, LifeFlight was one of the first aeromedical services in the United States.
Memorial Hermann is served by the Memorial Hermann Hospital-Houston Zoo Station of the METRORail Red Line.
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[edit] History
In August 2009 Memorial Hermann Hospital announced that it plans to sell its Southwest Hospital in Sharpstown to the Harris County Hospital District, which will make the hospital its third general hospital.[1] The county withdrew its bid in September 2009.[2]
[edit] Locations
The locations of the hospital system include:[3]
- Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital (unincorporated Harris County) - Located east of the city of Katy
- Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital (Humble)
- Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital (unincorporated Fort Bend County) - Located southwest of the city of Sugar Land
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital (The Woodlands community, Shenandoah[4])
- Memorial Hermann-TIRR (Houston)
[edit] References
- ^ O'Hare, Peggy. "County wants to buy Memorial Hermann SW." Houston Chronicle. August 7, 2009. Retrieved on August 8, 2009.
- ^ "Harris County Hospital District withdraws bid for Memorial Hermann Southwest." Houston Business Journal. Thursday September 17, 2009. Retrieved on September 25, 2009.
- ^ "Locations," Memorial Hermann
- ^ http://www.shenandoahtx.com/documents/CITY_LIMITS_ETJ.pdf
3. http://www.memorialhermann.org/default.aspx
[edit] External links
- Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center
- Memorial Hermann LifeFlight
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital
- Full list of locations and facilities
