Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Carilion Clinic
File:Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.jpg
Geography
Location	Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute,
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	703
History
Founded	1899
Links
Website	www.carilionclinic.org/crmh
Lists	Hospitals in Virginia

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital (CRMH) is a hospital in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. With 825 beds, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the state. It is part of Carilion Clinic.

A certified level I trauma center, the hospital operates three medical helicopters (LifeGuard 10, 11, and 12) to provide air ambulance transport, including one in Roanoke, one in the New River Valley, and one in Lexington.

History

The hospital was founded in 1899 as Roanoke Hospital.

In the 1920s and 1930s, its growth was funded through gifts of hundreds of thousands of dollars from David W. Flickwir, a railroad executive and contractor who had married the hospital's nursing superintendent. The hospital dubbed him its "Greatest Benefactor"; a 1925 building he funded, the Flickwir Memorial Unit, still stands.

In the 21st century, the hospital completed a large expansion project, adding an emergency department, a labor-and-delivery unit, and the Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital, which has a pediatric emergency room.

External links

• Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Official Website