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1976 |
Life Flight® takes off. |
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1977 |
 The new Memorial Hospital Southwest formally opens on a 38-acre tract bordering the Southwest Freeway.
Coinciding with opening of Memorial Southwest, Lillie Jolly School of Nursing is incorporated into Houston Baptist University and the downtown nursing building is closed.
Memorial joins with other teaching hospitals to create Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA) a cooperative network of purchasing and information sharing.
Jones Pavilion is dedicated and opened.
Main building is formally dedicated as Robertson Pavilion, named in honor of Corbin J. and Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson.
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1980 |
Hermann Hospital doctor performs first kidney transplant on one of the first patients in the United States to be treated with cyclosporine. |
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1982
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Memorial is the first in Houston, one of five nationally, to offer free hepatitis B vaccine to employees. |
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1985
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Memorial physician referral service, 222-CARE, receives its first calls from Houstonians looking for board-certified physicians. |
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| 1986 |
Hermann Hospital opens the children's hospital now known as Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, the city's second pediatric specialty hospital. |
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1991 |
Hermann opens the world's first comprehensive center devoted to application of chronobiological methods for medical diagnosis and treatment.
The Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program begins at Hermann.
Memorial Hospital The Woodlands joins the Memorial system. |
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1992 |
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital introduces ECMO, a treatment in which a heart/lung bypass "breathes" for babies in severe respiratory distress.
Houston's first combined kidney/liver transplant performed at Hermann.
Hand transplant performed at Hermann – believed to be world's first. |
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1994 |
Hermann becomes first Level I Trauma Center in Houston.
First lung transplant performed at Hermann.
First Chest Pain Center in Houston opens at Hermann.
Memorial City Hospital joins the System. |
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1995 |
Hermann implements first testing of new immunosuppressant drug, Rapamycin.
Memorial is voted a "Top 100" hospital in the nation for the first time. |
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1997 |
The Memorial and Hermann systems merge, forming Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. |
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1999 |
Fort Bend and Katy hospitals join the System.
Memorial Hermann opens Houston's first medically based, university-affiliated wellness center, the Memorial Hermann/HBU Wellness Center, a $16 million, 80,000-square-food facility adjacent to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital.
Margaret R. Bradshaw pledges $2 million to the Memorial Hermann Foundation in support of the Memorial Hermann/HBU Wellness Center to honor her late husband, B.J. Bradshaw, an attorney who served on the boards of the Memorial Hospital System and the Memorial Hospitals Foundation. The funds will create a permanent endowment to support the Wellness Center’s programs, and the Center will be named the B.J. and Margaret R. Bradshaw Wellness Center, Memorial Hermann/HBU. According to Margaret Bradshaw, the Wellness Center was her husband’s longtime dream.
William F. Galtney Jr., founder, chairman and CEO of The Galtney Group Inc., and his wife, Susanne, pledge $4 million to the Memorial Hermann Foundation in support of the emergency center in the new Hermann Pavilion of Memorial Hermann Hospital. In recognition of the Galtney gift, the Center is named the Galtney Trauma & Emergency Center. |
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2000 |
Doctors at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital perform one of the first-ever living donor nerve transplants on an 8-month-old boy. |
