Lakeside Memorial Hospital Inc history

The story of University Hospitals began 150 years ago, on May 14, 1866.

1868: Wilson Street Hospital opened in a small house on Cleveland’s lakefront to provide Cleveland city residents access to medical care.

1887: Nine teenage girls from prominent Cleveland families formed the Rainbow Circle of King’s Daughters, a group devoted to helping the city’s sick and poor children.

1888: Cleveland City Hospital formally changed its name to Lakeside Hospital.

1891: Rainbow Cottage opened, caring for 32 patients its first summer.

1894: The White Hospital (today UH Portage Medical Center) opened in Ravenna.

1898: Lakeside Training School for Nurses opened.

1905: Rainbow Cottage relocated to Green Road in South Euclid.

1906: Babies’ Dispensary and Hospital opened.

1908: The Community Hospital of Bedford (today UH Bedford Medical Center) opened.

1912: Samaritan Hospital (today UH Samaritan Medical Center) opened in Ashland.

1914: After several moves, Rainbow Cottage changed its name to Rainbow Hospital for Crippled and Convalescent Children.

1917: The American Dietetic Association was founded in Cleveland at Lakeside Hospital.

The long-awaited Michigan Avenue Bridge was opened in May, 1920.

1923: Henry Gerstenberger, MD, received a patent for infant formula known as SMA (Synthetic Milk Adapted), developed at Babies Dispensary and Children’s Hospital in collaboration with Harold Ruh, MD, and biochemist William Frohring.

1924: Babies’ Dispensary and Hospital moved to University Circle and was renamed Babies and Children’s Hospital.

1927: A five-day fundraising campaign raised more than $8 million for a new Lakeside Hospital to be built on the University Circle campus, and a new Rainbow Hospital in South Euclid.

A pair of huge, wrought-iron gates bearing McKinlock`s name were erected at Superior Street and Lake Shore Drive in 1930 and were moved a block south, to Huron Street, a few years ago when the Law School building was built.

1931:The new Lakeside Hospital and adjoining Leonard C. Hanna House opened on the University Circle campus.

1933: Claude Beck, MD, performed the first successful removal of a heart tumor.

1939: Charles I. Thomas, MD, performed the first corneal transplant in Northeast Ohio, paving the way to restored vision for millions of people.

1941: The Lakeside Unit was reactivated and deployed to the South Pacific to staff the first American military hospital in World War II.

1946: Louis Pillemer, PhD, developed preparations of tetanus antigen, leading to the first successful triple vaccine (DPT) targeting diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which virtually eliminated these once-fatal diseases in the United States

1950: William Holden, MD, performed the first successful femoro-popliteal bypass (from the thigh to the lower leg), using a section of the patient’s own vein.

1952: Use of chloramphenicol in blood disease was developed by Austin Weisberger, MD.

1953: Liver scan by radioisotopes was introduced by Hymer Friedell, MD, and Abbas Rejali, MD.

1955: Alan Moritz, MD, known as the Father of Forensic Pathology, worked to establish forensic pathology as a medical subspecialty and influenced the development of a professional United States medical examiner system, displacing lay coroners in that position.

1957: Robert Izant, MD, performed the first successful surgery on infants to connect the stomach and intestinal tract.

1959: Geauga Community Hospital (today UH Geauga Medical Center, a campus of UH Regional Hospitals) opened.

1962: Joseph T. Wearn Laboratory for Medical Research opened on the University Circle campus.

1967: The Robert H. Bishop Building on the University Circle campus opened.

Construction which has already begun, will be completed during the summer of 1969.

Realizing that his winnings were an opportunity of a lifetime to follow his true passion, Anthony decided to look for the perfect location and once he did, in 1970 he opened Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home.

1971: Charles Herndon, MD, was one of first surgeons in the United States to perform a hip replacement, conducting the procedure in a specially constructed operating room he designed to reduce infection in joint replacement surgery.

The final step in developing the modern campus came in 1972, when the two principal hospitals affiliated with Northwestern--Passavant and Wesley--were merged to form Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the biggest private hospital in the state.

1973: John Kattwinkel, MD, Avroy Fanaroff, MD, and Marshall Klaus, MD, with David Fleming from Biomedical Engineering, developed silicone nasal prongs for the application of continuous positive airway pressure in treating respiratory distress in pre-term and near-term neonates.

1976: John R. Haaga, MD, pioneered the use of computed tomography (CT) to guide biopsies, nerve blocks, abscess drainage and cancer treatment, significantly reducing the need for patients to have open surgery.

Thus on a recent day Doctor Terrance Fippinger, associate professor of pedodontics, was supervising a dental student at the same time that he was treating a 6-year-old girl in the dental clinic in the Health Sciences Building, built in 1978.

1979: Jeffrey Ponsky, MD, and Michael Gauderer, MD, performed the first percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy on infants, safely inserting a feeding tube in a minimally invasive manner in a baby’s stomach.

1980: The world’s first known survivor of ricin poisoning was treated by Leigh Thompson, MD.

1981: The first pediatric bone marrow transplant in Ohio was performed by Peter Coccia, MD.

1982: Randall Marcus, MD, developed revolutionary improvements in the design of an interlocking nail system to repair fractures, particularly of the long bones, which improves the healing rate and reduces the risk of infection.

1986: Arthur Zinn, MD, Douglas Kerr, MD, Charles Hoppel, MD, published the first description and detailed characterization of a defect (in the enzyme fumarase) in the famous pathway required for energy metabolism, the Krebs cycle.

1988: Herbert Meltzer, MD, conducted the first human trials of clozapine and established it as an effective medication for treatment-resistant schizophrenic patients.

1989: Joseph Calabrese, MD, in collaboration with researchers at Case Western Reserve University, launched groundbreaking studies that show the effectiveness of anticonvulsants and atypical antipsychotics in treating bipolar disorder.

1990: Anthony Maniglia, MD, was awarded the first of five patents leading to technology for developing the totally implantable cochlear implant.

1994: Alfred and Norma Lerner Tower & the Samuel Mather Pavilion opened on the University Circle campus through a gift of $10 million.

1995: Michael Konstan, MD, Pamela Davis, MD, PhD, and Charles Hoppel, MD, demonstrated ibuprofen’s profound effect on slowing the loss of lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis, and later showed that twice-daily therapy with high-dose ibuprofen improves survival.

1997: Leonard and Joan Horvitz Tower opened at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, named in recognition of the Horvitz family for their enduring generosity.

1998: UH became the site of one of the world’s first intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

2002: Pamela Davis, MD, PhD, and Michael Konstan, MD, performed the first-in-human clinical trial of a non-viral gene therapy approach in patients with cystic fibrosis using DNA nanoparticles.

Actor Christopher Reeve receives a DPS at UH in 2003

2004: Robert J. Maciunas, MD, was the first surgeon in North America to treat Tourette syndrome with deep brain stimulation.

2005: Cliff Megerian, MD, developed a minimally invasive treatment for glomus jugulare tumors, a rare, non-cancerous skull bone tumor that involves the inner and middle ear.

2006: The UH Medical House Calls program is established, in collaboration with Internal Medicine and Nursing, bringing primary care services to homebound seniors who otherwise would not have access to care.

2008: Faruk H. Örge, MD, was the first in Ohio to use endoscopic and microsurgical techniques to drain excess fluid from the eye in infants and young children born with glaucoma.

2009: The Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, under the direction of Andrew Sloan, MD, pioneered a minimally invasive, MRI-guided laser system to treat previously inoperable brain tumors.

2010: Pediatric urologists Jonathan Ross, MD, and Edward Cherullo, MD, performed one of the world’s first pediatric single-site nephrectomies.

Beginning in 2012 to now, Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home, Inc., of Hamburg, was honored by the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) with the Pursuit of Excellence Award.

2014: University Hospitals expanded through the integration of hospitals in Elyria, Parma and Ravenna.