Memorial Hermann Hospital

Infobox Hospital
Name = Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center
Org/Group = Memorial Hermann Healthcare System


Caption =

Location = Texas Medical Center
Region = Houston
State = Texas
Country = United States
HealthCare = Non-profit
Type = General and Teaching Hospital
Standards =
Emergency = I
Affiliation= University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Beds = 750
Founded = 1907
Closed =
Website = http://www.memorialhermann.org/aboutus/default.html
Wiki-Links = |

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 Sanitorium. 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 the 1980's, then Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox threatened the Hermann Hospital Board of Directors with law suits stemming from the literal and practical absence of the intent of the hospital to serve the poor of Houston, which was considered by many Houstonians to be the primary intent of George H. Hermann's bequest.fact|date=December 2007

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.

Locations

The locations of the hospital system include: [" [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/default.html Locations] ," "Memorial Hermann"]
* 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 Sugar Land Hospital (unincorporated Fort Bend County) - Located southwest of the city of Sugar Land
* Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital (The Woodlands community, Shenandoah [http://www.shenandoahtx.com/documents/CITY_LIMITS_ETJ.pdf] )

References

External links

* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/HE.html Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center]
* [http://www.hermannlifeflight.com Memorial Hermann LifeFlight]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/CH.html Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/K.html Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/MC.html Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital]
* [http://www.nemch.org/ Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/NW.html Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/SE.html Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/SW.html Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/SLH.html Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/TW.html Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital]
* [http://www.memorialhermann.org/locations/default.html Full list of locations and facilities]