Hermann Memorial Health System is the largest non-profit health system in southeast Texas and consists of 16 hospitals, 8 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & amp; Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to outpatient and other rehabilitation centers. It was formed in the late 1990s when the Memorial and Hermann systems merged. The Memorial and Hermann health care system began in the early 1900s. The Administration is housed in the new Memorial Hermann Tower, along with the existing Tower Service System (formerly called the North Tower), from the Memorial Medical Center of Hermann Memorial City.
The Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (formerly known as Hermann Hospital before the 1997 merger with the Memorial Health Care System) was opened in 1925. This is the first of two hospitals with a Level I trauma center rating to be located in Houston, Texas inside Texas Medical Center. It is the flagship of a large system of hospitals and clinics located in and around the greater Houston area, in various environments as well as some of the periphery. Different hospitals are distinguished by further appointments indicating their location. (Texas Medical Center, Northwest, Southwest, Woodlands, etc.) The hospital system has been headed by some of the most influential leaders in health care including Dan Wolterman, Dr. Benjamin K. Chu, as well as President & amp; CEO Charles (Chuck) D. Stokes
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History
Memorial Hospital System was started in 1907 by The Rev. Dennis Pevoto who buys an 18-bed sanitarium in downtown Houston, calling it the Baptist Sanatorium. By the time he retired, it had become Memorial Hospital System, a facility of 200 beds. Prominent local businessman George H. Hermann died in 1914, leaving most of the $ 2.6 million estate to build and maintain hospitals for the poor and sick of Houston. The city of Houston annexed the Hermann Hospital site in 1922, adding about 1,000 hectares (400 ha) from land to city limits. Hermann Hospital opened its doors in 1925, also started a nursing school that same year.
Hermann Hospital was the first to operate in an environment that later became Texas Medical Center. In 1943, this hospital was the first in Texas to receive the delivery of a new miracle drug, penicillin. In 1946 it was also the first hospital to perform cardiac catheterization. It remains the only hospital in the Houston area that has a burn care center.
The award-winning Texas Medical Center hospital is home to Memorial Hermann Life Flight , emergency transport and critical care services. Founded in 1976, LifeFlight is the first aeromedical service in Texas, and second in the United States. It carries about 3,000 patients each year. In 1985 the first successful liver transplant took place here as well. In 1992, the hospital was also the first hospital in the country to transplant live donors in neonatal patients.
In 1993, Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center acquired the first Gamma Knife in the region. The first four organ transplants in Houston were also performed here in 2006, at the same time becoming the world's first hospital to perform constructive reactive aortic surgery.
The Hermann Hospital and Memorial Health System, which at that time had five hospitals, merged in 1997. The name "Warning Hermann" was first used on November 4, 1997 after Herman Health Systems and Memorial Health Systems completed their merger, becoming the largest system non-profit health care in the country.
In August 2009, Hermann Memorial Hospital announced that it planned to sell Southwest Hospital in Greater Sharpstown to Harris County Hospital District, with plans to make the hospital a third public hospital. However, the county withdrew its offer in September 2009. Since then, Memorial Hermann has been making efforts to rebuild the Southwest Hospital.
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Awards
Healthgrades 50 Best Hospitals in America
Hermann Northwest Memorial Hospital, Southeastern Hermann Memorial Hospital, Hermann Southwest Memorial Hospital, and The Woodlands Hospital Hermann Memorial are collectively named the 50 Best American Hospitals in 2010 and 2011 by HealthGrades.
Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals
Six Memorial Hermann Hospital was mentioned among the 100 National Hospitals by Thomson Reuters in 2011. Hermann Memorial Hospital is the only one in the Houston area to gain recognition.
Collectively, Hermann Southwest Memorial Hospital, Southeastern Hermann Memorial Hospital, Hermann Northwest Memorial Hospital and The Woodlands Hospital Hermann Memorial are provided in the educational hospital category. Hermann Katy Memorial Hospital is recognized in the category of intermediate community hospitals in 2010 and 2011. Hermann Sugar Land Memorial Hospital was given in the category of small community hospitals for the first time in 2011.
Health Systems Management Service Program Memorial Hermann won the 2011 Franklin Award of Distinction.
Location
Headquarters
The administrative headquarters of the health care system is located at 915,000 square feet (85,000 m 2 ) Memorial Hermann Tower at Hermann Memorial City Memorial Medical Center, on the corner of Interstate 10 and Gessner Road. The headquarters are scheduled to move there in mid-2010. The new Hermann Tower Memorial Building and the renovated North Tower at Memorial City Hospital have a total of 375,000 square feet (34,800 sq. Min.) Space. In 2006 Marshall Heins, vice president of construction, real estate and support services, said that the Memorial City location was chosen as the system headquarters because "The Memorial City area became the geographical center of Houston and the Memorial Hermann Health Care System All our facilities are within easy reach at Beltway 8, so we want a location close to it. "
Previously the head office was at a facility on Interstate 69/US. Highway 59 (Southwest Freeway) in Bissonnet, in Greater Sharpstown. Memorial Hermann rented office space in two office buildings, 9301 Southwest Freeway and 9401 Southwest Freeway. Both buildings have a combined space of 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2 ). As of 2006, the head office has 1,300 employees. The 9401 Southwest Freeway building, also known as Williamstown Office Tower, previously housed at TexCon Petroleum Co. and became vacant a few years before 1997 when TexCon emptied the space. 9401 Southwest Freeway has an area of ​​214,000 square feet (19,900m 2 ) and, in 2009, owned by Los Altos, California Investment Grade Loans company. Moody Rambin Interests is a rental agency building in 2009. 9301 Southwest Freeway has an area of ​​111,000 square feet (10,300m 2 ). In 2009 BGK Texas had 9301 Southwest Freeway, and that year Moody Rambin Interests became a leasing company.
On July 9, 2010, the hospital system held a lease for more than 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2 ) office space with MetroNational Corp., involving former North Tower and Medical Office Building 1-4 on Memorial campus City. The hospital system continues to use Transwestern to handle leasing and management.
Hospital
The location of the hospital system includes:
- Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, (Houston)
- Hermann Children's Memorial, (Houston)
- Hermann Katy Memorial Hospital, (unrelated to Harris County) - Located east of Katy City
- Hermann Memorial City Memorial Medical Center, (Houston)
- Hermann Northeast Memorial Hospital, (Humble)
- Memorial Hermann Northwest is also known as Greater Heights Hospital, (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, (Houston)
- Hermann Sugar Land Memorial Hospital, (unrelated Fort Bend County) - Located to the southwest of the city of Sugar Land
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital, (Woodlands Community, Shenandoah)
- TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital, (Houston)
- Memorial Hermann Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, (Bellaire)
- Hermann Memorial Prevention and Recovery Center (PaRC) Center for Drug and Alcohol Treatment (Houston)
- Hermann Pearland Memorial Hospital, (Pearland)
References
Further reading
- Down your head, Margaret. "Tell the Boss." Houston Press . Thursday, June 18, 1998.
- "Essential assets: Memorial Hermann marks a hundred years." (Editorial) Houston Chronicle . December 23, 2007.
External links
- Hermann Memorial Health System
- Book Record interview with Lisa Belkin on First, Do not Hazard: Dramatic Story from the Right Doctor and Patient Making the Impossible Choice at Big City Hospital , April 25, 1993.
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