page_title: Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center
section_title: Hospitals and Institutes
hierarchical_section_title: Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center / Hospitals and Institutes
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial Hermann Hospital at the Texas Medical Center (2003) Español: Memorial Hermann Centro Médico de Texas (2003)
context_page_description: Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center is a nationally ranked hospital at the Texas Medical Center. It is the first hospital founded in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1925, it is the primary teaching hospital for McGovern Medical School and the flagship location of 13 hospitals in the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. It is one of three certified Level I Trauma Centers in the greater Houston area. The Memorial Hermann Life Flight air ambulance service operates its fleet of helicopters from Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center.
context_section_description: The Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center campus hosts the main Texas Medical Center Hospital along with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital is also located in the Texas Medical Center. The campus houses four institutes: the Heart & Vascular Institute, the Mischer Neuroscience Institute, the Texas Trauma Institute and the Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Sports Medicine Institute.
  It is the only hospital in Houston with Burn Center Verification by the American Burn Association.
  The hospital founded Life Flight in 1976 as the first air ambulance service in Texas; today, Life Flight is the only hospital-based air ambulance serving Houston and surrounding communities.
  Physicians affiliated with the hospital performed the first successful liver transplant in Houston and were the first in the nation to perform a living-donor transplant on a neonatal patient.
  The campus has 1,082 licensed beds:
  Children's: 278
  Women's: 68
  Heart & Vascular Institute: 147
  Adult: 589
caption: Memorial Hermann Hospital TMC in 2003
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