Memorial Hermann Hospital



Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is composed of two separate hospital systems which 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 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 Sanitorium. 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. Hermann Hospital opened its doors in 1925, it also started a school of nursing that same year.

The "Memorial Hermann" name was first used on Nov. 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.

Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center (formerly known as Hermann Hospital before the 1997 merger with Memorial Health Care System) was opened in 1925. It is a hospital with a Level I trauma center rating located in Houston, Texas inside the Texas Medical Center; however, it is only one of a large system of hospitals and clinics located in and around Houston, in various neighborhoods as well as some suburbs.

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. The different hospitals are distinguished by further designation indicating their location. (Texas Medical Center, Northwest, Southwest, Woodlands, etc.)

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 one of the first aeromedical services in the United States.

Memorial Hermann is served by the Memorial Hermann Hospital-Houston Zoo Station of the METRORail Red Line.