Manchester Memorial Hospital is a 249-bed
community hospital A community hospital can be purely a nominal designation or have a more specific meaning. When specific, it refers to a hospital that is accessible to the general public, and provides a general or specific medical care which is usually short-term, ...
located in central
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, Connecticut, an eastern Connecticut community about 10 minutes east of
Hartford
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since t ...
. The hospital opened in 1920, and was dedicated as a memorial to all Manchester residents who died during the First World War. In 1970, the hospital was rededicated as a memorial to veterans of all wars. The hospital operates a
family medicine residency
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* Domicile (law), the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place
** Permanent residency, indefinite residence within a country despite not having citizenship
* Residency (medicine), a stage of postgra ...
training program for newly graduated
osteopathic physicians
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O., or in Australia DO USA) is a medical degree conferred by the 38 osteopathic medical schools in the United States. DO and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees are equivalent: a DO graduate may become licen ...
.
See also
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List of hospitals in Connecticut
This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of Connecticut, sorted by hospital name. The American Hospital Directory listed 51 hospitals in Connecticut in 2020.
Hospitals
Defunct
* Cedercrest Hospital (psychiatric) – Newington
* E ...
References
External links
Official Website
Hospital buildings completed in 1920
Hospitals in Connecticut
Manchester, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in Hartford County, Connecticut
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