Children's Minnesota history

Finally, in 1926, another property was purchased: a 15-acre patch of land located on what was then Forrest Road and Fortune Street, now the intersection of Ralph McGill Boulevard and Wabash Avenue.

In 1928, the Children’s Hospital moves to a new building on Pleasant Avenue with the promise of free care for needy children.

He enlisted the prominent philanthropic powers of the St Paul Junior League in 1933 and the Children's Hospital Association (CHA) was formed.

1944: An operating room is opened at Children's St Paul.

Spalding’s desire to help was initially sparked in 1946 when Margaret Mitchell, famed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Gone With the Wind,” wrote to him to express her concern about the healthcare system available to African Americans in Atlanta.

In May 1947, the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, led by Hughes Spalding, authorized construction to begin on the hospital.

The society noted Ramsey's success when he enlisted the help of the St Paul Junior League and chose to follow suit. It was not until 1951, when pediatric practitioners in Minneapolis formed the Minneapolis Pediatric Society, that the possibility of a major capital campaign began to take shape.

When it finally opened in 1952, the Hughes Spalding Pavilion held more than 130 beds and provided medical care for African American adults and children.

In 1953, a group of Junior League members and physicians incorporates the Children’s Hospital of Minneapolis and begins fundraising.

1956 – Egleston becomes the pediatric teaching affiliate of Emory University School of Medicine.

In 1959, the Lang Wing of Children’s – St Paul is dedicated in honor of Theodora H. Lang, the first woman president of the board of trustees.

1963: Minneapolis begins a building campaign and succeeds in raising $1.8 million.

1965 – Scottish Rite expands into a full-fledged medical center.

The hospital board had surveyed many sites and was close to selecting one when in 1966 Abbott Northwestern invited Children's Hospital to join its newly formed consortium, and offered the hospital a home.

In 1967, Arnold Anderson, MD, is named medical director and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis children’s hospital even before it is built.

1968: Children's Hospital St Paul opens its first outpatient department.

By December 1969 the Minneapolis Children's Hospital had raised approximately 40 percent of the needed funds for its $6 million building project and proceeded to break ground for its new building.

In February 1971 the board eventually turned to selling $4.5 million in bonds to complete the project.

1973: Minneapolis Children's Hospital opens on January 31.

The hospital’s new expansion and updated name, Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital, launched in July 1976 at its current location in north Atlanta.

In 1983 it took on a new name and became Minneapolis Children's Medical Center (MCMC). The following year it opened a pediatric unit at Fairview Ridges Hospital, creating a partnership with another medical center that was unique at the time.

Research programs in immunology and neonatology were underway in the capital city and in 1984 the St Paul Children's Hospital opened a pediatric intensive care unit.

MCMC was ready for a major addition by 1985 and completed a $14 million expansion.

Another grant in 1986 allowed the hospital to open the Midwest Children's Resource Center to serve the region in both diagnosing and treating child abuse and neglect.

15, 1989, the hospital was renamed again as the Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Hospital for Children, in honor of the couple who originally donated the land in north Atlanta, while the holding company became the Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center.

In 1992 MCMC expanded its facility once again.

The completed merger created "a 254-bed health care network with $190 million in assets and annual gross patient revenues of $229 million," according to an August 8, 1994 article in Modern Healthcare Magazine.

In June 1995 the hospitals' foundations, which had previously remained separate, were merged.

1997: Children's Roseville opens.

In 1998, Egleston merged with the Scottish Rite Medical Center to form Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

In July 2002 the American Hospital Association announced Children's Hospital and Clinics Minneapolis/St Paul as a finalist for its Quest for Quality prize.

In 2004, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Grady Health System jointly announced plans for Children’s to provide pediatric services at Hughes Spalding.

Founded in 2005, CCF is devoted to improving the health of America’s children and families, particularly those with low and moderate incomes.

In 2006, Children’s assumed responsibility for the management of services at Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital, adding a third hospital to anchor our growing System.

In 2007, Children’s Minnesota embarks on a $300 million renovation and expansion, the largest in its history, to provide all private patient rooms and upgrades to our facilities and clinical areas.

In 2010, a new building for the hospital opened at the same location, providing expanded facilities, updated equipment, a primary care center, a sickle cell clinic and an asthma clinic.

Also in 2013, The Mother Baby Center opens as a new four-story, 96,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that is a joint venture between Children’s Minnesota and Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

2015 also marked the opening of two new Mother Baby Centers at Mercy Hospital and United Hospital.

In 2016, Children’s Minnesota and Allina Health opened the Michael and Ann Ciresi Midwest Fetal Care Center, the first and largest advanced fetal care center in the upper midwest and one of only a few in the country.