| Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Hospital | |
| Memorial Hermann Healthcare System | |
|---|---|
| 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 | http://www.memorialhermann.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in Houston, Texas,[1] and consists of 11 hospitals, 7 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other outpatient and rehabilitation centers.[2] It was 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 administration is housed in the new Memorial Hermann Tower, along with the existing System Services Tower (formerly called the North Tower).[3]
Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center (formerly known as Hermann Hospital before the 1997 merger with Memorial Health Care System) was opened in 1925. It was the first of two hospitals with a Level I trauma center rating to be located in Houston, Texas inside the Texas Medical Center.[4] It is one hospital of a large system of hospitals and clinics located in and around the greater Houston area, in various neighborhoods as well as some suburbs. The different hospitals are distinguished by further designation indicating their location. (Texas Medical Center, Northwest, Southwest, Woodlands, etc.) 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, totaling 11 in the system.
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center is served by the Memorial Hermann Hospital-Houston Zoo Station of the METRORail Red Line.
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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. The City of Houston annexed the site of Hermann Hospital in 1922, adding about 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land to the city limits.[5] Hermann Hospital opened its doors in 1925, it also started a school of nursing that same year.
The hospital was the first to be open in the Texas Medical Center in 1925. In 1943 this hospital was the first in Texas to receive a shipment of the new wonder drug, penicillin. In 1946 it was also the first hospital to perform a cardiac catheterization. It remains the only hospital in the Houston area to have a burn-treatment center.[6]
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 the first aeromedical service in Texas, and second in the United States. It transports around 3,000 patients annually.[7] In 1985 the first successful liver transplant occurred here as well. In 1992 it was also the first hospital in the nation to perform a living-donor transplant on a neonatal patient.
In 1993 Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center acquired the region's first Gamma Knife. The first four-organ transplant in Houston also was performed here in 2006, along with it being the first hospital in the world to perform robotic re-constructive aortic surgery.
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.
In August 2009 Memorial Hermann Hospital announced that it planned to sell its Southwest Hospital in Sharpstown to the Harris County Hospital District, which will make the hospital its third general hospital.[8] The county withdrew its bid in September 2009.[9]
Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital were collectively named an America’s 50 Best Hospital in 2010 and 2011 by HealthGrades.[10]
Six Memorial Hermann hospitals were named among the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters in 2011. Memorial Hermann’s hospitals were the only ones in the Houston-area to earn the recognition.
Collectively, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital and Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital were awarded in the teaching hospitals category. Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital was recognized in the medium community hospitals category in 2010 and 2011. Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital was awarded in the small community hospitals category for the first time in 2011.[11]
The Joint Commission and the American Case Management Association (ACMA) awarded the Care Management Services program of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System the 2011 Franklin Award of Distinction.[12]
The locations of the hospital system include:[13]