Wishard Memorial Hospital is an award-winning county hospital known nationally for its efficiency, excellent care outcomes, and state-of-the-art computerized order entry and patient database system. Wishard serves the indigent population of the city of Indianapolis and surrounding sections of Marion County. As a public safety net hospital, it provides a training site for a wide variety of medical problems within a diverse patient population. It is also home to the highly integrated Regenstrief Medical Record System, the longest continuously running EMR. Admissions come primarily through the level-one trauma center and very busy emergency room and the hospital's strategically placed community health centers and other clinics. The EMR electronically links all of these clinical settings to help streamline care. Medicine residents play a key role in caring for patients in all of these venues. General medicine faculty primarily round on the wards.

For nearly 150 years, Wishard Health Services has provided high quality, cost-effective healthcare to the citizens of Marion County. Accredited by the Joint Commission, Wishard has nationally recognized programs including Midtown Community Mental Health Center, IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, a Level I trauma center, senior care program, comprehensive stroke program and regional burn center. Wishard Health Services is the public hospital division of the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, and Indiana University School of Medicine physicians provide patients with a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services. The old Wishard Hospital is now the Nursing Museum and may look familiar as it was used in the movie Hoosiers, where Dennis Hopper’s character was hospitalized, missing the final championship game. Click here for more information on the history of Wishard Hospital.