CRMC-West 214 E. 23 St. Cheyenne, WY 82001
CRMC-East 2600 E. 18 St. Cheyenne, WY 82001
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Health Care for the Year 2000…and beyond.

From Canvas to Concrete.

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.

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 Cheyenne Regional 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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