Baptist Memorial Health Care history

1964 A year of innovation – An expansion provides space for one of the nation’s first two outpatient surgery centers.

1972 Baptist Hospital completes the largest expansion in its history, bringing total bed capacity to 520.

1975 The Foundation of Baptist Hospital is established August 13.

1977 LifeFlight helicopter ambulance service is brought to Baptist Hospital, becoming the first hospital–based emergency helicopter program in Florida, the third in the United States.

1979 The closing of Jay Hospital is averted when the Baptist Regional Health Services organization leases it from Santa Rosa County.

Baptist Health Care opened the facility in 1985 to provide convenient access to hospital services for residents of south Santa Rosa, Escambia, Okaloosa and Walton counties.

1992 A new Heart Center is opened on the first floor of the Baptist Medical Towers.

1993 The former Century Memorial Clinic, which was operated by University Hospital, becomes a department of Jay Hospital and is renamed Century Family Health Center.

1994 Baptist Health Care expands its primary care network, opening four new practices (West Side Family Medicine Center/Gulf Breeze Internal Medicine Center/ Pensacola Beach Family Medicine Center/Orange Beach Family Medicine Center) An additional existing family medicine practice is acquired.

1995 Baptist Health Care’s primary care network is expanded to 14 centers.

1997 Jay Hospital begins a renovation project that involves refurbishing all patient rooms and nurse stations.

1998 Open heart surgery services are initiated at Baptist Hospital.

Baptist Health Care and Cardiology Consultants combined strengths in 2011 and integrated 28 physicians into the health care system with more than 610 years of collective experience in advancing heart care in the region.