Vidant Medical Center (previously, Pitt County Memorial Hospital) is a hospital located in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the flagship teaching hospital for the Vidant Health and is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Vidant Medical Center is the only trauma center east of Raleigh. Vidant Medical Center is licensed for 861 beds and had 39,360 admissions in fiscal year 2009. Of the 861 beds, 734 are general beds, 75 are rehab beds, and 52 are psychiatric beds. The hospital has 35 operating rooms: 26 rooms are Shared Inpatient/Ambulatory Surgery; four rooms are C-Section; three rooms are Other Inpatient; two rooms are Endoscopy.
It was known as Pitt Community Hospital when it was created. The facility was located near downtown Greenville. In 1934, it changed to Pitt General Hospital, and then again to Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) in 1949, and moved to west Greenville in 1951. It moved again to its current location in 1977. On August 17, 2011, it was announced PCMH will change their name to UHS Medical Center. The change failed to occur on the planned October 1, 2011. The UHS brand was taken, so the hospital system instead finally change its name to Vidant Medical Center. Vidant Health claims that Vidant is derived from the root "Vi" that is associated with "life" in Latin, and in fact "Vida" literally means "life" in Spanish.
Vidant Medical Center is the largest employer in North Carolina east of Raleigh and 20th overall in the state.
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