Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

Coordinates: 36°51′40.53″N, 76°18′12.78″W

**Sentara Norfolk General Hospital**
Sentara
Location

Entrance to Norfolk General, with Christmas lights
Place	Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia, (US)
Organization
Care System	Sentara
Hospital Type	Non-profit
Affiliated University	Eastern Virginia Medical School
Services
Emergency Dept.	Yes
Beds	563
History
Founded	1888
Links
Website	Norfolk General website Homepage
See also	Hospitals in the United States

For the similarly named hospital in Simcoe, Ontario, see Norfolk General Hospital.

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Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. It is located adjacent to Sentara Heart Hospital. Norfolk General is home to the only Level I Trauma Center and burn trauma unit in Hampton Roads,^[1] and is the teaching hospital for Eastern Virginia Medical School.^[2] The hospital is considered among the best in the country.^[3]

History

In 1888 the forerunner to Norfolk General, the 25-bed Retreat for the Sick, was opened in downtown Norfolk.^[4] At this time there were fewer than 200 hospitals in the entire country. In 1892 the Retreat for the Sick opened the first nursing school in Norfolk. The hospital moved to a new location in 1896 and was renamed Norfolk Protestant Hospital in 1898. The hospital moved again in 1903 and witnessed a fire in 1906, though no lives were lost. Norfolk Protestant was renamed Norfolk General in the 1930s and the first open-heart surgery in Virginia was performed there in 1967.

In 1981 Elizabeth Carr was born at the hospital, becoming America's first in-vitro fertilization baby.^[5] The first heart transplant performed in Hampton Roads occurred at the hospital in 1989.

References

^ Shaputis, Kathleen (2006). 50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family. Career Press, 322. ISBN 1564148262.
^ Schuster, Carol R. (1998). Medical Readiness: Efforts Are Underway for Dod Training in Civilian Trauma Centers. Diane Publishing, 19. ISBN 0788181386.
^ Garoogian, David (2002). America's Top-rated Cities: A Statistical Handbook. Grey House, 281. ISBN 1930956967.
^ Yarsinske, Amy Waters (1999). Norfolk's Church Street: Between Memory and Reality, VA. Arcadia Publishing, 40. ISBN 0738501034.
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