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1931
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 Memorial installs Drinker Respirator, a "baby breather" machine to resuscitate babies, the first in the South. |
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1932
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The Baptist Sanitarium is renamed Memorial Hospital. |
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1941 |
 Graduates of nursing school – 97 in all – volunteer for duty overseas.
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1942 |
 Memorial Hospital builds eight-story addition to Smith and Dallas, bringing bed capacity to 284.
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1943 |
Memorial is the first general hospital in state to receive shipment of new "wonder drug" penicillin. |
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1946 |
Hermann doctors perform the first cardiac catheterization in Texas. |
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1947 |
 Hermann breaks ground for the Hermann Professional Building, the first high-rise office building outside of downtown.
Hermann doctors follow Johns Hopkins doctors as the second team in the country to perform a “blue baby” surgery.
Ground is broken for new main hospital building (later named the Robertson Pavilion) and for Hermann Professional Building, the first high-rise office building outside of downtown.
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1949 |
 Professional Building opens. Opening ceremonies take place for the hospital’s new main building, reportedly the first major hospital in the nation to be air-conditioned.
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