Medical Center Health System history

1951 - Memorial Hospital opens as an acute care facility with 75 beds and an active medical staff of 7 physicians.

1954 Baylor University Hospital receives its first cobalt machine to treat cancer patients.

A few months earlier in 1957, they were part of a team to perform Dallas' first open heart surgery.

1958 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Hospital, Paul Ellis, MD, and Leroy Kleinsassor, MD, perform Baylor's first open heart surgery.

1959 Baylor University Hospital is renamed Baylor University Medical Center to reflect the multiple hospitals and services on the Dallas campus.

1960 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform the Southwest's first pacemaker implant.

1961 A gift from Charles A. Sammons and the Reserve Life Insurance Company funds the Sammons department of virology, the United States' first clinically oriented laboratory.

1963 Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation move atop the hill in south Temple, once known as Killarney Heights.

1965 Doctor Robert W. Jackson, Chief of Orthopedics at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, brings the important technique of arthroscopy to North America.

1968 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform the medical center's first coronary bypass operation.

July 20, 1969 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to step on the moon, uttering the historic words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

1970 The 200-bed Erik and Margaret Jonsson Medical and Surgical Hospital opens at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

1971 - A $3 million expansion project increases number of beds to 131.

1973 Twin towers, named in honor of J.K. and Susie L. Wadley and Albert S. and Velma Barnett, open as part of the Baylor Medical Plaza which includes physician offices and a 75-room hotel, and is located at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

1974 - Memorial Hospital Foundation established to generate and disburse funds for benefit of the hospital.

1975 David Hitt, who worked closely with Boone Powell, Sr. for more than 20 years, becomes the hospital's administrator with responsibility for the hospital's day-to-day operations.

July 4, 1976 – Marks the bicentennial anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

1978 Baylor University Medical Center Foundation is created with an initial endowment of $5 million to support the activities of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

1979 David Hitt resigns and a search committee is formed to find a new CEO for Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

1980 Boone Powell, Jr. becomes president and CEO of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

1981 Baylor Health Care System is formally established with Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas as its flagship hospital and corporate headquarters.

Scott and White Health Plan was formed in 1982 as Centroplex Health Plan.

1983 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas becomes the first hospital in the Southwest to have a nuclear magnetic resonance scanner (MRI). Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform North Texas' first bone marrow transplant.

1984 Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation opens on the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas campus.

1985 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform Texas' first successful adult-to-adult liver transplant.

1986 - A 24-bed skilled caring unit opens.

1987 Scott & White Memorial Hospital installs the first magnetic resonance imager (MRI) in Central Texas, allowing doctors to detect and diagnose, quickly and painlessly, many diseases and brain and spinal cord disorders.

1988 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform Texas' first unrelated donor marrow transplant.

1989 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform Dallas' first lung transplant and three years later perform Dallas' first double lung transplant.

April 24, 1990 – The largest space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, is launched into orbit via the Space Shuttle Discovery.

1991 Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center opens at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, offering the community a sports medicine facility that was, at the time, perhaps the only center of its kind in the world.

1993 United States News & World Report "America's Best Hospitals" guide recognizes Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas as one of the best hospitals in the nation — an honor the medical center again receives for 17 consecutive years.

1994 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform the Southwest's first small bowel transplant.

1995 Surgeons on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas perform the medical center's first kidney and pancreas transplant.

1996 Baylor Institute for Immunology Research is established at Baylor Research Institute.

1997 Baylor Pediatric Center for Restorative Care is renamed Our Children's House at Baylor.

1999 - Loogootee Family Medicine opens in a new facility, and a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is added to the staff.

2000 Joel Allison is named president and CEO of Baylor Health Care System.

2001 - Lithotripsy added as a service and a new four-story parking garage opens.

Plans are announced for a new, seven-level, patient tower to begin construction late in 2002.

2003 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas celebrates its 100-year anniversary.

2004 Baylor Health Care System forms ODC Therapy Inc., a cancer immunotherapy company.

2005 - LCM Tower opened with the relocation of Emergency and Ambulance Services, Radiology Services, Critical Care Services, and Women and Infant Services; and an Inpatient Rehab Center opened in the hospital’s Barrett Building.

2006 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine begin expanding their emergency departments.

Baylor Grapevine's $9.2 million expansion is completed in October 2007.

2008 - New Heart & Vascular Center opened on LCM Tower's Sixth Level; New medical office opened in Holland; New Sleep Center developed; Employee count topped 1,400 and nearly 90 physicians are on the active medical staff.

2009 - New medical office opened in French Lick; New Memorial Medical Office of Huntingburg opened.

Since 2010, MCHS has continued to open clinics at various locations to make healthcare more accessible.

2011 The new Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas opens its doors.

On September 12, 2012, Yale New Haven Hospital acquired the assets of the Hospital of Saint Raphael, located on Chapel Street in New Haven and now named Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus.

The largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas, and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health was born from the 2013 combination of Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare.

In 2014, MCHS opened the Center for Primary Care – JBS Parkway and the Center for Primary Care – West University that include Urgent Care clinics and pediatric services.

2015 - Dahl Family Medicine opens in Washington, Indiana.

November 2, 2016 – The Chicago Cubs win the World Series, ending their 71-year National League pennant drought, their 108-year World Series championship drought and the Curse of the Billy Goat.

2017 James H. Hinton arrives at Baylor Scott & White Health to begin his leadership role as president and CEO. The first CAR-T immunotherapy clinical trial for pancreatic cancer in the world is implemented at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.