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Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in Houston, Texas,〔"()." Memorial Hermann About Us. Retrieved February 13, 2013.〕 and consists of 13 hospitals, 7 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other outpatient and rehabilitation centers.〔"()." Memorial Hermann Hospital Homepage. Retrieved March 3, 2011"〕 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), of the Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center. 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.〔"()." Retrieved on December 1, 2010.〕 It is the flagship 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 12 in the system. ==History== 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. Prominent local businessman 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 of land to the city limits.〔Lee, Renée C. "(Annexed Kingwood split on effects )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday October 8, 2006. A21. Retrieved on July 6, 2011. Print version exclusively has the information cited; the information is ''not'' included in the online edition.〕 Hermann Hospital opened its doors in 1925, it also started a school of nursing that same year. Hermann Hospital was the first to operate in the neighborhood which later became the Texas Medical Center. 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.〔"(Retrieved on December 1, 2010. )〕 The flagship 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.〔"()." Retrieved on December 1, 2010.〕 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. Hermann Hospital and the Memorial Healthcare System, which at the time had five hospitals, merged in 1997.〔Ackerman, Todd. "(West Houston is seeing a hospital building boom )." ''Houston Chronicle''. April 25, 2011. Retrieved on November 2, 2013.〕 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 Greater Sharpstown to the Harris County Hospital District, with plans to make the hospital its third general hospital.〔O'Hare, Peggy. "(County wants to buy Memorial Hermann SW )." ''Houston Chronicle''. August 7, 2009. Retrieved on August 8, 2009.〕 However, the county withdrew its bid in September 2009.〔"(Harris County Hospital District withdraws bid for Memorial Hermann Southwest )." ''Houston Business Journal''. Thursday September 17, 2009. Retrieved on September 25, 2009.〕 Memorial Hermann has since made efforts to rebuild the Southwest Hospital, adding resources for Asian and geriatric patients.〔"(Hospital focuses on rebuilding after failed sale )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Retrieved on May 18, 2012.〕 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「Memorial Hermann Health System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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