Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

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

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.

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