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The George Washington University Hospital is located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The current facility opened on August 23, 2002, with 371 beds in a 400,000 sq. ft. building, housing more than $45 million of medical equipment and costing over $96 million to construct.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/article/george-washington-university-hospital-washington-dc )〕 The hospital is licensed by the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and accredited by the U.S. Joint Commission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.qualitycheck.org/qualityreport.aspx?hcoid=6310 )〕 Since 1997, The George Washington University Hospital has been jointly owned and operated by a partnership between a subsidiary of Universal Health Services and The George Washington University. ==History== Founded in 1824 as a medical department in Columbian College (now called The George Washington University), the GW Medical School was the 11th in the nation and the first in the nation’s capital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1824 The first GW medical department was located in downtown Washington, D.C. on 10th and E Streets near Ford's Theatre. In the 1840s, it moved into a larger building at Judiciary Square as an infirmary, which subsequently became the first general hospital in the nation's capital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1853 When the GW Infirmary was enlarged to allow the curriculum to formally include clinical studies, which meant that the college became one of the first in the nation to teach clinical medicine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1861 The infirmary was reclaimed by the government for use as a military hospital for Civil War casualties, and was destroyed by fire shortly thereafter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1863 The medical college reopened, post-fire, in the Constitution Office on E Street.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1868 The hospital and medical school are moved to the former location of the Army Medical Museum's specimens, 1335 H Street.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1904 The Columbian University Medical School and Hospital were rededicated The George Washington University Medical School and Hospital. At this time, the faculty boasted many of the nation's most prominent doctors, including Major Walter Reed, who identified the mosquito as the carrier of yellow fever; Dr. Theobald Smith, whose pioneering research identifying germs as the cause of diseases changed the course of medicine; and Dr. Frederick Russell, who introduced typhoid vaccine into the Army.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1928 The Department of Medicine became the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the University Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1948 The GW Hospital moves to Foggy Bottom at 901 23rd Street (directly across from present location) and housed 501 patient beds. At the time of its dedication, it was the largest private building in the District of Columbia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 * 1981 President of the United States rushed to GW's Emergency Department after the Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, suffering from gunshot wounds in the chest and in the lower right arm. * 1996 The GW Medical Faculty Associates' mobile mammography program aims to make life-saving early detection of breast cancer possible for all women in D.C., regardless of their ability to pay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: The School of Medicine & Health Sciences )〕 This vital program is still being offered today. * 1997 Universal Health Services buys an 80% stake in the hospital and takes over day-to-day operations from the University * 2002 GW Hospital moves across the street to 900 23rd Street, NW. The 371-bed, state-of-the-art facility is the first new hospital in D.C. in over 20 years. The first patient was Mr. Floyd Godfrey. On August 24, 2002 at 12:51 a.m. the first baby was born in the new hospital: Genesis Ann Palmer, weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces was born to parents Marquita and Gerald Palmer.〔The George Washington University Hospital's Health News Magazine〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Washington University Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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