eli5 Why Hospital are name like Memorial

Question

Hello,
I’m french and I curious about why most of hospital in USA are named like Memorial Hospital.

Thanks for your answer.

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Answer 1

One thing to be careful about, if you’re looking at hospitals in movies and TV shows, is that they’ll often use a generic-sounding name rather than a real place. So there are lots of TV shows featuring “Memorial Hospitals”, but the real-life ones are more likely “So-and-So Memorial Hospital”, named after someone important.

There are two “so-and-so memorial hospitals” near me, both are named after wealthy people whose money or mansion was donated to found the hospital.