Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is the first hospital founded in the Texas Medical Center

Texas Medical Center

The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research...

 in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1925, it is the primary teaching hospital for The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and the flagship location of 11 hospitals in the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. It is one of only two certified Level I Trauma Centers in the greater Houston area. The Memorial Hermann Life Flight

Life Flight

Memorial Hermann Life Flight is an air medical transport service based in Houston, Texas. Life Flight flies into 12th floor of the John S. Dunn Heli-Stop atop Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. It was founded in 1976.-History:...

 air ambulance service operates its fleet of helicopters from Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. The hospital has 33,614 admissions and performs 14,937 inpatient and 3,972 outpatient surgeries. The hospital employs 1,350 registered nurses full-time.

Following the January 2011 Tucson shooting

2011 Tucson shooting

On January 8, 2011, a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, with one other person injured at the scene during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes Safeway...

 by Jared Lee Loughner

Jared Lee Loughner

Jared Lee Loughner is an American man who is charged with the January 8, 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting that killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll. The shooting also left 14 others injured, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords...

, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Giffords

Gabrielle Dee "Gabby" Giffords is an American politician. A Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, she has represented since 2007. She is the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to the U.S. Congress...

 spent time here as an inpatient undergoing rehabilitation

Physical therapy

Physical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...

 after being released from another hospital, and after being released in June 2011, she maintains therapy on an outpatient basis.

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

METRORail

METRORail is the light rail line in Houston . It is the second major light rail service in Texas following the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. With an approximate daily ridership of 34,155, the METRORail ranks as the fourteenth most-traveled light rail system in the United States, with the...

Red Line.

Leadership

Craig Cordola was named CEO of Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in 2010. Previously, he was the vice president of operations for Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Hospitals and Institutes

The Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center campus hosts the main Texas Medical Center Hospital along with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR Memorial Hermann). The campus also houses 3 institutes: the Heart & Vascular Institute, a 6-floor, 1650000 square feet (153,290 m²) building, the Mischer Neuroscience Institute and the Ironman Sports Medicine Institute at Memorial Hermann.

Rankings

In 2010, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center was ranked in 4 adult and 1 pediatric specialties by the US News & World Report. It was ranked #30 in Kidney Disorders, #38 in Gynecology, #46 in Heart & Heart Surgery, #48 in Urology, and #30 in Pediatrics: Kidney Disorders.