Vidant Medical Center
| Vidant Medical Center | |
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| Vidant Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Greenville, Eastern, North Carolina, United States |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Hospital type | General, Specialist, and Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University |
| Network | Vidant Health |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Helipad | Yes (FAA LID: NC91) |
| Beds | 861 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1923 - Pitt Community Hospital 1934 - Pitt General Hospital 1949 - Pitt County Memorial Hospital 1998 - University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina - Pitt County Memorial Hospital 2012 - Vidant Medical Center, Vidant Health |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.vidanthealth.com/medicalcenter/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in North Carolina |
Vidant Medical Center (previously, Pitt County Memorial Hospital) is a hospital located in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the primary teaching hospital for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and is the flagship medical center for Vidant Health. Vidant is a Level 1 Trauma Center, one of 6 in the state of North Carolina. It is the only level I trauma center east of Raleigh, and thus is the hub of medical care for a broad and complicated rural region of over 2 million people. Vidant Medical Center is the largest employer in Eastern North Carolina and 20th overall in the state.
Vidant Medical Center is licensed for 861 beds and had 39,360 admissions in fiscal year 2009. Of the 861 beds, 734 are general beds, 75 are rehab beds, and 52 are psychiatric beds. The hospital has 35 operating rooms: 26 rooms are Shared Inpatient/Ambulatory Surgery; four rooms are C-Section; three rooms are Other Inpatient; two rooms are Endoscopy.
The facility was originally known as Pitt Community Hospital and was located near downtown Greenville. In 1934, it changed to Pitt General Hospital, and then again to Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) in 1949. The hospital moved to West Greenville in 1951, and then to its current location in 1977.
On August 17, 2011, it was announced PCMH will change their name to UHS Medical Center. The change failed to occur on the planned October 1, 2011. The UHS brand was taken, so the hospital system instead finally change its name to Vidant Medical Center. Vidant Health claims that Vidant is derived from the root "Vi" that is associated with "life" in Latin, and in fact "" literally means "life" in Spanish.
Pitt Community Hospital (PCH), the precursor to Pitt County Memorial Hospital, was the vision of Greenville physician, Charles Laughinghouse. In 1923, he and three other physicians raised $85,000 to build the privately owned PCH. The hospital created a relationship with East Carolina Teachers' Training School. The first home of PCH came in 1924. It was temporarily located in Downtown Greenville, above H.L. Hodges' Hardware Store, at 210 East Fifth Street. On September 7, 1923, more than 800 people attended a reception honoring the hospital. The first night, Pitt County had its first surgical operation, an appendectomy.
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