| Memorial
History, 1960-1969 |
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| 1963 |
Memorial
Baptist Hospital Southeast opens with 135 beds, fully equipped
with pediatrics, obstetrics, surgery and emergency room facilities. |
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| 1965 |
 Downtown
addition to Memorial Central enlarges bed capacity to 600 and
increases medical technology with addition of new $45,000 Cobalt
Radioisotope Therapy
machine.
The Bowles
Chapel is completed.
Memorial
establishes hospital-based speech clinic in Houston, the first
in the region. |
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| 1966 |
Northwest
satellite of Memorial opens with 130 beds and complete laboratory,
X-ray, emergency, operating and obstetrics facilities.
Lillie Jolly
School of Nursing dissolves affiliation with University of
Houston. |
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| 1968 |
Lillie
Jolly School of Nursing affiliates with Houston Baptist College
to offer bachelor's degree in nursing. |
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| 1969 |
Hospital
board commissions a master plan that involves a new hospital
to be built in a new location, broader community representation
and government funding for capital expansion.
First coronary
care unit is opened in the northwest satellite as part of Memorial's
plan to install coronary care units in each branch.
Memorial
becomes first community hospital in nation to offer routine
hearing tests for newborns. |
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| Hermann
History, 1960-1969 |
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| 1961 |
Hospital
delivers more than 25 percent of all babies born in metropolitan
Houston. |
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| 1968 |
University
of Texas System enters into affiliation with Hermann. The Coordinating
Board, Texas and College University System approve establishment of a
new four-year public medical school in Houston. |
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| 1969 |
The
University of Texas Medical School at Houston is created by
an act of the Texas Legislature. |
