Geisinger Medical Center ( GMC ) is an academic medical center in Danville, Pennsylvania that opened in 1915 as the George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital . It is the flagship hospital for the Danville-based Geisinger Health System , a primary chain of hospitals and clinics across northeastern and central Pennsylvania .
3-523: GMC's position in a small town gives Danville one of the highest concentrations of hospital workers in the United States. According to Todd Frankel of The Washington Post , "Life in Danville has always seemed to revolve around what some locals call the 'Big G,' the hospital on the hill that employs more than 10,000 people in a borough of 4,600." Geisinger Life Flight , a helicopter medevac system,
6-467: Is an air ambulance service operated by Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, United States. It has six operating bases. The air ambulance averages about 2,800 flights a year. Life Flight was founded in 1983 and currently has a fleet of nine helicopters. Life Flight helicopters transport nearly 3,000 critically ill adult and pediatric patients each year across the region. Each crew consists of
9-698: Is based at the hospital. Abigail Geisinger founded the hospital in December 1915, then named the George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital after her late husband. In 1928, a surgical pavilion was added. In 1961, it was reorganized as Geisinger Medical Center. On February 9, 2010, Geisinger Medical Center opened the Hospital for Advanced Medicine (HFAM). Also in the building: 40°58′05″N 76°36′22″W / 40.968°N 76.606°W / 40.968; -76.606 Life Flight (Geisinger) Life Flight
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