Hennepin County Medical Center

Hennepin County Medical Center, Minnesota’s largest academic safety net hospital, first opened as Minneapolis City Hospital in 1887. It created programs and services that others were unable to provide, including a burn center, regional poison center, kidney disease program, and the state’s first transplantation and dialysis center—all of which still exist today. The hospital opened the state’s first Level 1 Trauma Center a few years later, and today, operates the biggest emergency department in the state. Repeatedly recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a top hospital, specialties of distinction include a stroke center; traumatic brain injury program; and comprehensive cancer, heart, geriatric, orthopedics and rehabilitation centers. 

HCMC At-A-Glance

This data is from the 2009 NAPH Hospital Characteristics Survey.

For more information, visit http://www.hcmc.org/index.asp.