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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 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