Central Military Hospital is a third level medical institution, highly specialized, with extensive experience, that provides services not only to military and rights holders, but also to people outside this medical unit, which belongs to and depends directly from the Secretaría De La Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) through the Directorate General of Health.

[1] The history of the Central Military Hospital began in the twentieth century when the land belonging to the Hacienda San Juan De Dios (named after the founder of the Order of Friars hospital), were purchased by the Lord Jesus and Tornel Goribar giving structure to a vast expanse of farmland and your child exploitation around the year ended 1885 selling the pair Eduardo Rubio and Ana Cuevas Lascurain.

After various representations expressed, to government agencies, are considered the building of the National Universal Mexico in those areas, but due to war conditions that arose during the presidency of General Lazaro Cardenas in 1938, plus incentives government to strengthen military structures (particularly the medical care of the armed forces), the land became property of the minister of defense, and the street formerly known as "Calzada de los Morales", it became the Avenue of the National Mexican Army.

Within the southern boundary of the land, right in front of the brick and the limits of the river, facilities were built like the Central Military Hospital.

The construction of the institution was by architect Luis MacGregor and a list of other advisors, highlighting the American Medical Association and the Ministry of Defense of the United States.