CRMC-West 214 E. 23 St. Cheyenne, WY 82001
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CRMC Pictorial History - A pictorial look at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, from past to the present. Sketches by Cheyenne artist Max Larkin. Text by Dave Hall.

1867 Tent Hospital - Truth be told, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, one of the oldest hospitals in the western United States, traces its history to a tent hospital set up on the banks of Crow Creek in 1867. The tent hospital was established by the Union Pacific Railroad to treat workers injured while building the transcontinental railroad as it passed through southeastern Wyoming. One year later, the tent was purchased by the founding fathers of Cheyenne For $125.00

1882 County Hospital - After being located in several buildings around the new frontier town of Cheyenne, the “County Hospital” was established at its present location at the corner of 23rd and Evans in 1882 when a dedicated hospital building was constructed on land donated by the Union Pacific Railroad. The building depicted here served the people of Cheyenne and Laramie County well into the 20th century.

1921 Frances Warren Pershing Hospital - After nearly forty years of service as the county hospital, a new hospital was built in 1921. It was named in memory of Frances Warren Pershing, the wife of General John J. (Blackjack) Pershing. Frances Warren Pershing died with three of the couple's four children in a fire in San Francisco in 1915. This building, occupied in 1922, served as the central core of the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center–West complex until June of 1999.

1946 Hospital Additions - Additions were made to the 1922 building in 1946 and 1958. This blond brick building served as the main entrance for the hospital for many years and also housed surgery and intensive care. The Richardson family of Cheyenne donated funds for a clinical lab constructed in 1958, and a bond issue passed that same year constructed an additional three floors on top of the Richardson Lab.

1968 West Tower - A major addition to the hospital came in 1968 with the completion of a six-story “west tower”. This structure housed new areas for dietary, radiology, physical therapy and most of the hospital's semiprivate patient rooms. A one-story addition was built onto the west tower in 1985 to the house advancements in the hospital's radiation-therapy program.

1988 Redesign - The dramatic change from traditional inpatient care to outpatient treatment and same-day surgery led to the construction of a new wing designed to provide state-of-the-art facilities for major and minor emergency care, medical and surgical intensive care, surgery, cardiopulmonary and neurology, physical therapy, diagnostic radiology, obstetrics and other hospital support services.

2003 New Patient Tower - The first floor of the six-story structure will provide new facilities for the hospital’s kitchen, cafeteria and Food & Nutrition Services department. A partial floor will be constructed of top of the sixth story to house mechanical equipment, as well as a solarium for patients’ use. A ten thousand square-foot courtyard—a memory garden—will separate the patient-tower addition from the medical office building constructed to the south.

Health Care for the Year 2000…and beyond.

From Canvas to Concrete.

Construction Information

F E Warren contribution to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center began as a frontier “tent” hospital, constructed by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867 to treat injured workers who were building the transcontinental railroad.

One year later, the founding fathers of Cheyenne purchased the tent and all of its medical supplies for $125, and established what is now known as Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.

The hospital moved several times during its first few years of existence. The tent hospital was replaced by a 24x30 foot two-story building, constructed at a cost of $2,500 and designed to care for 40 patients.

By 1870, the hospital was relocated again to the corner of 18th street and O’Neil Avenue in a building known as the Dodge House.

A larger facility was soon needed, and the Union Pacific Railroad donated land to build a new hospital.

In 1882, a county hospital was constructed northeast of the city. This became the permanent location of Cheyenne Regional Medical Center-West.

By 1900, the hospital was renamed St. John’s Hospital, and additions were made to the building in 1906 and 1911.

First, a maternity ward was added, then a wing was built by the Union Pacific for railroad employees.

In 1919, the hospital was incorporated by Laramie County. In 1922, the 1882 hospital structure was torn down, and a new, four-story brick building was erected in its place.

The hospital was renamed Frances Warren Pershing Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, in memory of the wife of General John J. “Blackjack” Pershing. Mrs. Pershing and three of the couple’s four children were killed in a fire at the Presidio, an army base located in San Francisco, in 1915.

Over the years, the name was shortened, for practical purposes, to Memorial Hospital of Laramie County.

For years, Memorial and DePaul (a catholic hospital established by the Sisters of Charity in Cheyenne in 1952) hospitals worked together to coordinate health care services for the people of Cheyenne and Laramie County.

By 1992, it became obvious to both hospitals that an even closer cooperation was in the best interest of the community, and some sort of hospital consolidation was needed.

After months of discussion and study, the decision was made for Memorial Hospital to purchase the assets of DePaul Hospital, effectively consolidating the two Cheyenne hospitals into one on November 1, 1992.

The name of the consolidated hospital was changed to United Medical Center in May, 1993.

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center continues to evolve, developing new services and expanding to meet the health care needs of the people of Cheyenne and Laramie County.

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