Regions Hospital
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Regions Hospital is a teaching hospital located in St. Paul, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, part of the HealthPartners
HealthPartners
HealthPartners is an integrated, nonprofit heath care provider located in Bloomington, Minnesota, offering a number of different heath care plans. It is the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the United States. - History :...

 system,. The hospital is an ACS verified Level I Trauma Center
Trauma center
A trauma center is a hospital equipped to provide comprehensive emergency medical services to patients suffering traumatic injuries. Trauma centers grew into existence out of the realization that traumatic injury is a disease process unto itself requiring specialized and experienced...

, and was Minnesota's first pediatric level one trauma center. Regions Hospital is a leading, full-service, private hospital, with special programs in heart, cancer, behavioral health, burn, emergency and trauma.

History

The hospital was established in 1873 by the Ramsey County
Ramsey County, Minnesota
Ramsey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota, founded in 1849. As of 2010, the population was 508,640. Its county seat is St. Paul, which is also Minnesota's state capital. The county is named for Alexander Ramsey , the first governor of the Minnesota Territory...

 Board of Commissioners as City and County Hospital. It later became Ancker Hospital in 1923, named after its superintendent Dr. Arthur Ancker. In 1965 it moved to its current location on Jackson St. and University Avenue and became St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center. In 1997, it was renamed Regions Hospital.

Awards

In 2007 and 2008, the hospital was a Solucient Top 100 Hospital: Cardiovascular Benchmarks in the teaching Hospital Category.. HealthGrades
HealthGrades
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 has given the hospital specialty excellence awards for Stroke Care, Critical Care, and Coronary Interventions.. The Leapfrog Group has identified the hospital as one of the nations Highest Value hospitals,for heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia patients while using resources wisely.

Regions Hospital has also been named to US News and World Reports Listing of America's best hospitals.

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