Renown Regional Medical Center history

1949: First pediatrics unit in the region opens.

1963: First pacemaker implant in the region.

1964: Washoe Medical Center expands to 300 beds.

1977: First open-heart surgery and first cardiac catheterization in the region.

1979: University of Nevada, Reno establishes first residency program at Washoe Medical Center.

The medical center and the healthcare organization were transferred to Washoe Health Systems, a private non-profit organization, in 1984.

1989: Opening of region’s first dialysis center at Washoe Medical Center.

1999: First intravascular brachytherapy procedure in northern Nevada.

2002: Washoe Institute for Neurosciences and Washoe Comprehensive Stroke Center, the only facilities of their kind in the region, open at Washoe Medical Center.

2003: Washoe Medical Center expands its services by acquiring a rehabilitation hospital.

2004: First and only PET/CT for diagnosing and treating cancer patients and bi-plane angiography services in the region introduced.

In 2006, Washoe Health System changed its name to Renown Health.

2007: Construction on the Tahoe Tower, a 10-story patient tower, is completed.

Renown Health became the first hospital in northern Nevada to perform robotic surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System in 2008.

The area's first and only children's emergency room was opened in 2009 at Renown Regional Medical Center and is the region's only Children's Miracle Network Hospital.

The Renown Regional Medical Center opened a new pediatric intensive care unit and pediatric floor in February 2012.

Renown Health partnered with 23andMe and the Desert Research Institute to launch the Healthy Nevada Project, a population health study, in 2016.

The Healthy Nevada Project provided northern Nevadans with no-cost genetic testing and participants who opted-in to receive clinical results were then screened for Tier 1 CDC genetic conditions in 2018.