Download Chronology of Historic Events at Memorial

Chronology of Historic Events at Memorial
1812
 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth is founded near Bardstown, Ky.
1946
 Hamilton County Memorial Hospital Association is chartered to raise
$2 million for a 200-bed hospital. H. Clay Evans Johnson is chosen
president. (June)
1947
 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth is selected to own and operate Memorial
Hospital.
1949
 Ground is broken for Memorial Hospital. (April)
1951
 Memorial is dedicated. (Dec. 12)
1952
 Memorial begins accepting patients. (Jan. 2)
1963
 Groundbreaking is held for five-story south wing. (February)
1968
 Memorial creates Board of Directors to make locally based decisions
on policies and services. (October)
1972
 First open heart surgery is performed at Memorial. (July)
1978
 New south facing hospital entrance is dedicated as a major expansion
program (February)
1979
 One day ambulatory surgery opens. (October)
1980
 Memorial Child Care Center opens. (January)
1982
 Medical Building East is dedicated. (May)
 Obstetrical service is closed. (August)
1983
 $12 million surgery center opens. (June)
1985
 Memorial becomes a division of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Health System (September)
1992
 Atrium-Memorial Professional Office Building opens. (April)
 The Chattanooga Heart Institute opens. (November)
1993
 Memorial’s Outpatient Surgery Center opens in East Brainerd,
connected to Atrium-Memorial complex. (October)
1994
 Pediatric unit opens. (May)
 Memorial Health Services, a physician-hospital organization, is
created. (May)
 Memorial establishes Caduceus, an organization or primary care
physicians. (September)
 Mountain Management is formed to provide services for physician
groups. (September)
1995
 Memorial is one of four recipients of the national Gold Well
Workplace Award.
 Memorial receives Accreditation with near-perfect score of 99
following Joint Commission survey. (March)
 Development Office begins fundraising and Development Council is
created. (May)
 North Georgia Health Services, a physician hospital organization, is
jointly established by Memorial and Hutcheson Medical Center. (June)
 Cardiac Short Stay Unit opens. (July)
 Physicians open offices in Memorial Plaza. (September)
 New emergency center opens (December)
1996
 North Shore Health Center opens in North Chattanooga. (January)
 Women’s East Pavilion opens on Gunbarrel Road (March)
 Growing home health program occupies new offices in Brainerd
(March)
 First residents enter Memorial’s Family Practice Residency Program
(June)
 Expanded and renovated the H. Clay Evans Johnson Cancer Center
opens.
1997
 New chapel, lobby and entrance are completed. (April)
 Outpatient services center opens. (April)
 Memorial helps create Hamilton YMCA.
 Memorial joins Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest not-forprofit healthcare systems in the United States.
1998
 Memorial purchases North Park Hospital.
 Area’s first MRI installed at the Memorial Atrium Imaging.
 Joslin Center for Diabetes affiliate at Memorial opens to bring worldrenowned diabetes care to Chattanooga.
2000
 Memorial opens Breast Resource Center.
 Memorial helps bring Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to
Chattanooga.
2001
 Memorial Health Care System Foundation is chartered.
 Cardiovascular Center completed at Memorial North Park to expand
cardiovascular diagnostic services to Hixson.
 Memorial breaks ground for a medical center in Ooltewah.
 Vision for Memorial Cancer Institute announced.
 Memorial breaks ground for same day surgery center on Glenwood
campus.
2006
 Completed of a $3.2 million expansion and renovation project for
cancer services.
2007
 MaryEllen Locher Breast Center opens.
2010
 Memorial Ooltewah Medical Office Plaza and Imaging Center opens.
 Memorial integrates services with The Chattanooga Heart Institute, the
region’s largest diagnostic, treatment, research and rehabilitation
center.
 The Joseph H. Alice E. Davenport Infusion Center Opened
2011
 Memorial North Park Becomes Memorial Hospital Hixson.
 Memorial breaks ground on its new Master Facility Plan.
 Memorial Hospital performs first TAVR procedure. At the time of
approval, Memorial was only one of 24 hospitals in the nation selected to
use the groundbreaking, FDA approved Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter
aortic heart valve as a therapy for adult patients with severe symptomatic
native aortic valve stenosis.
2013
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Memorial Hospital opens South Tower
Memorial Hospital opens Child learning Center
Memorial Hospital completes construction on the Central Utility
Plant
Memorial Hospital opens the Buzz Standefer Lung Center
2014
 Memorial opens Heart and Vascular Center