Western Maryland Regional Medical Center

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Western Maryland Regional Medical Center is a hospital located in Cumberland, Maryland in Allegany County. The facility, which opened on November 21, 2009, is owned by the Western Maryland Health System . It was established as a combination of Memorial Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital , both of which are now closed. It is sometimes confused with Western Maryland Hospital Center, a state-run rehabalitation hospital located in Hagerstown, Maryland.HistoryEstablished as the Western Maryland Hospital in 1888, Memorial Hospital moved to its current location on Memorial Avenue in Cumberland, Maryland in 1929 and was renamed in honor of those who gave their life in World War I. Memorial Hospital was once owned and operated by the City of Cumberland and became a private non-profit organization in the early 1980s. Afterwards, Memorial was owned by the Cumberland Memorial Hospital Corporation.Sacred Heart Hospital was first incorporated as Allegany Hospital in 1905 and moved from its original site on Decatur Street to the Seton Drive facility in 1967. The Daughters of Charity were asked to come to Cumberland to operate the hospital in 1911. Between 1935 and 2006, the hospital was known as Sacred Heart Hospital. The hospital was briefly known as WMHS Braddock Campus before the opening of the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in 2009.