Hennepin County Medical Center
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Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) is a Level I trauma center based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the county seat of Hennepin County. The primary 422-bed facility is located on five city blocks across the street from the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and there are three other clinics in the area in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center, and Richfield. HCMC has been listed among America's Best Hospitals by US News & World Report magazine every year since 1999. Some patients come a long distance to be treated at HCMC because of the recognized trauma surgery specialists, transplant services, and the region's only hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
The hospital was created in 1887 as the Minneapolis City Hospital. Ownership was transferred to the county in 1964, when it was named Hennepin County General Hospital. The hospital took its current name in 1974. The current hospital facility was completed in 1976, following a $25 million bond passed by voters in 1969. The hospital expanded in 1991 when the adjacent Metropolitan-Mount Sinai Medical Center closed. It gained Level I trauma center status in 1989, the first such site in the state.
As of Tuesday, May 2nd, Hennepin went live with a view-only version of Epic medical software. This marks one of many steps that Hennepin County Medical Center is taking to stay at the top of its practice.
[edit] Internship Oportunity
Students from UCIMED a medical school located at Costa Rica are given the oportunity to do internship at the hospital. The iniative started thanks to an agreement signed on february 2006.
