| Memorial
History, 1980-1989 |
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1980 |
System
implements an affiliation program with health care facilities
throughout Texas and is among the first hospitals in the nation
to do so. |
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1981
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R.
William Warren is named president of the system. |
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1982
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System
becomes first in Houston and one of only five in the nation to
offer hepatitis B vaccine to employees at no charge. |
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| 1984 |
Vernon
G. Garrett Jr. serves as interim president of the system for
six months.
Dan S. Wilford
becomes president of Memorial system. |
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| 1985 |
Memorial's
physician referral service receives first calls from Houstonians
looking for board-certified physicians. |
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| 1986 |
Memorial
Hospital Southeast's new facility opens.
System opens
$2.5 million Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center.
System institutes
Memorial 55+ program and becomes first hospital in the state
to implement programs designed specifically for Texans age
55 and older.
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| 1988 |
Employees
begin "Partners in Caring" program, rooted in a philosophy
of treating patients and each other with dignity.
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| 1989 |
 University
Place opens and is the only hospital-affiliated retirement
center in Houston.
Memorial
Hospital Northwest's new facility opens.
Kenneth E.
Montague, trustee, receives Texas Hospital Trustees Founders
Award for outstanding contributions to the health care field
and exemplary leadership and service to Memorial. |
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| Hermann
History, 1980-1989 |
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| 1980 |
Barry
D. Kahan, M.D., performs the first kidney transplant at hospital,
and patient is one of first 300 patients in United States to
be treated with cyclosporine. |
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| 1982 |
Jesse
H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Medical-Surgical Center opens on 8th
floor of Jones Pavilion.
Hospital
opens Texas Kidney Center.
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| 1984 |
Hospital
opens Positron Diagnostic and Research Center. |
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| 1985 |
Children's
area within Hermann is officially designated as University
Children's Hospital at Hermann.
Texas attorney
general files suit to reform Hermann Estate board and later
dismisses suit in return for hospital providing more charity
care. "Reform" board members, including John S. Chase
and Melinda H. Perrin, are appointed. |
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| 1986 |
Historic
restoration of first floor and renovation of Cullen Building
begin. |
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| 1988 |
Hospital
opens University Center for Travel Medicine. |
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| 1989 |
Hermann Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and the University of Texas/Hermann
Gallstone Center open.
Hospital
opens Toxic Fume Inhalation Center. |
