Memorial Hermann History
Milestones |
| 1907 |
Memorial
opens first chartered training school of nursing in Houston.
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1920
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Memorial purchases its first X-ray machine.
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| 1931 |
Memorial
installs Drinker Respirator, a "baby breather" machine
to
resuscitate babies, a first for the region.
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| 1941 |
Memorial
organizes first Houston general hospital psychiatric section.
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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
performs first cardiac catheterization in Texas.
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| 1947 |
Hermann
breaks ground for Hermann Professional Building, the first high-rise
office building outside of downtown.
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| 1949 |
Hermann
opens new main building, reportedly first major hospital in nation
to be air-conditioned. |
| 1953 |
Memorial
employs its first full-time volunteer director.
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| 1957 |
Memorial establishes first general practice residency in Texas.
First recorded
cesarean birth under hypnosis performed at Memorial.
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| 1959 |
Memorial offers
first physicians' course in psychiatry in Houston.
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| 1965 |
Memorial establishes
first hospital-based speech clinic in the South.
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| 1969 |
Memorial opens
first branch coronary care unit as part of plan to install units
in each branch.
Memorial
becomes first community hospital in nation to offer routine
hearing tests for newborns.
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| 1971 |
Hermann enrolls first University of Texas medical students at
Houston campus.
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| 1973 |
Hermann completes
first helicopter landing facility for Houston-area hospitals.
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| 1976 |
Hermann flies
first mission of Hermann Life Flight.
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| 1980 |
Memorial is
among first in nation to start affiliation program with other
health care facilities in state.
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| 1982 |
Memorial is
the first in Houston, one of five nationally, to offer free hepatitis
B vaccine to employees.
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| 1986 |
Memorial is
the first in state to offer programs designed specifically for
Texans age 55 and older.
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| 1991 |
Hermann
opens the world's first comprehensive center devoted to application
of chronobiological methods for medical diagnosis and treatment.
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| 1992 |
Houston's
first combined kidney/liver transplant performed at Hermann.
A 10-month-old baby receives living donor liver transplant
at Hermann - first such surgery ever in Houston.
Hand transplant performed at Hermann - believed to be world's first
Emergency liver transplant from living donor performed at Hermann - believed
to be one of first such operations in medical history
Silent Care Center opens at Hermann as one of nation's first general medicine
clinics dedicated to deaf patients.
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| 1993 |
Melinda H.
Perrin becomes first woman to serve as chair of Hermann board
of trustees.
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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.
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1995
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Hermann implements
first testing of new immunosuppresant drug, Rapamycin.
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| 1996-97 |
Memorial is
voted a "Top 100" hospital in the nation for the first
time.
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| 1999 |
Memorial
Hermann opens Houston's first medically based, university-affiliated
wellness center, the Memorial Hermann/HBU Wellness Center. |
