Early this month, Wyoming Medical Center officially partnered with Banner Health in a shared mission of protecting the health of Wyoming patients and families. It is just the latest in many changes in our 100-plus year history of serving this community and state. More »
On Oct. 1, 1982, Darth Vader took a break from enforcing the Empire's evil designs and made a trip to Memorial Hospital's children's ward, as reported by the Casper Star-Tribune. More »
Not everyone can say they were married in a hospital. More »
With a goal of being stronger together, Banner Health and Wyoming Medical Center leaders will host an internal open house to welcome each other into a new affiliation, which is effective today. The transaction makes Wyoming Medical Center Banner’s flagship hospital in Wyoming. More »
Few people like getting stuck in the arm, but in October, Wyomingites should roll up their sleeves and take their flu shots like a man (or a woman, or a brave-faced child.) That's what this stoic-faced gentleman did at a Casper immunization clinic in October 1976. More »
In the summer of 1980, photographer Michael Naylor joined Memorial Hospital for its second annual employee picnic, a tradition we celebrate to this day. He published this photo essay in the Casper Journal. More »
Since we weren't able to gather for Parade Day 2020, we offer these flash backs to Parade Day 1970 and 1971. More »
Wyoming legislators voted to build the Casper branch of the Wyoming State Hospital in 1909 and construction began in March 1910. Wyoming paid the $22,500 price tag while Natrona County supplied the land. More »
With the opening this week of our new Interventional Radiology Suite, our old cafeteria is no longer recognizeable to Wyoming Medical Center longtimers. For this Throwback Thursday, we look at another renovation project for the hospital kitchen, this one from 1953 and hospital stove that no longer could. More »
Memorial Hospital's 'Candy Stripe girls' threw a Valentine party for the pediatric ward in 1970. Picture in this newspaper photo are Carol Sheets and Debbie Olsen (standing) and Amy Holder and Stephanie Zowada. More »
Cath is medical shorthand for cardiac catheterization, a procedure that utilizes thin, hollow tube called catheters to examine heart function and to look for coronary disease. Physicians can measure pressure and blood flow through your heart by injecting contrast dye through the catheter and taking x-rays to follow the dye's progress through your coronary arteries. More »
In January 1979, the Casper Star-Tribune featured the hospital's new C-arm, a state-of-the-art imaging device able to diagnose heart blockages in real time. In 2020, we are preparing to open a new Interventional Radiology Suite that will allow our cardiologists to offer a life-saving heart procedure for the first time in Wyoming. More »
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