Sentara Norfolk General Hospital | |
Sentara | |
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Entrance to Norfolk General, with Christmas lights | |
Geography | |
Location | Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia, United States |
Organization | |
Care system | Sentara |
Hospital type | Non-profit |
Affiliated university | Eastern Virginia Medical School |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes, Level 1 Trauma Center |
Beds | 563 |
History | |
Founded | 1888 |
Links | |
Website | SNGH website |
Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is a hospital in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. It is located adjacent to Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Sentara Heart Hospital and Eastern Virginia Medical School for which it serves as the teaching hospital.[1] Norfolk General is home to the only Level I Trauma Center and burn trauma unit in Hampton Roads.[2] The hospital is considered among the best in the country.[3]
In 1888 the forerunner to Norfolk General, the 25-bed Retreat for the Sick, was opened in downtown Norfolk.[4] At this time there were fewer than 200 hospitals in the entire country. In 1892 the Retreat for the Sick opened the first nursing school in Norfolk. The hospital moved to a new location in 1896 and was renamed Norfolk Protestant Hospital in 1898. The hospital moved again in 1903 and witnessed a fire in 1906, though no lives were lost. Norfolk Protestant was renamed Norfolk General in the 1930s and the first open-heart surgery in Virginia was performed there in 1967.
In 1981 Elizabeth Carr was born at the hospital, becoming America's first in-vitro fertilization baby.[5] The first heart transplant performed in Hampton Roads occurred at the hospital in 1989.
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