Explore jobs
Find specific jobs
Explore careers
Explore professions
Best companies
Explore companies
Special Care history
Special Care company history timeline
1829 – A bill was introduced in the Tennessee Legislature by Shelby County Senator Adam Huntsman to appropriate funds for the opening of what would be called the Memphis Hospital.
1830 – $3,300 was appropriated to enable the Memphis Hospital to open its doors.
1862 – During the Civil War, the Memphis Hospital was transformed into a military hospital operated by the federal government.
1866 – Governance of the Memphis Hospital was returned to the state of Tennessee after the Civil War ended.
1936 – With the Gaston inheritance, $300,000 from the city, $100,000 from the county, and a grant from the Public Works Administration, the Memphis City Hospital generated $800,000.
12.Safar P, Escarraga L, Elam J (1958) A comparison of the mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-airway methods of artificial respiration with the chest-pressure arm-lift methods.
14.Sambhi MP, Weil MH, Udhoji VN (1962) Pressor responses to norepinephrine in humans before and after corticosteroids.
9.Weil MH, Shubin H, Rosoff L (1965) Fluid repletion in circulatory shock: central venous pressure and other practical guides.
10.Weil MH, Shubin H, Rand W (1966) Experience with a digital computer for study and improved management of the critically ill.
1968 – The Newborn Center opened its doors with a focus on reducing the infant mortality rate of African-Americans.
8.Weil MH, Shubin H (1969) Critical care medicine I: The “VIP” approach to the bedside management of shock.
15.Weil MH, Shubin H (1970) Changes in venous capacitance during cardiogenic shock.
25.Safar P, Grenvik A (1971) Critical care medicine; organization and staffing of intensive care units.
26.Weil MH, Shubin H (1971) The new practice of critical care medicine.
21.Weil MH (1973) Presidential address: the Society of Critical Care Medicine, its history and its destiny.
1.Weil MH, Shubin H, Carlson RW (1976) The new practice of critical care medicine.
17.Weil MH, Henning RJ (1979) New concepts in the diagnosis and fluid treatment of circulatory shock.
19.Weil MH, Michaels S, Puri VK et al (1981) The Stat Laboratory: facilitating blood gas and biochemical measurements for the critically ill and injured.
1983 – The hospital was officially renamed the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, or The MED. The Elvis Presley Trauma Center also opened this year.
39.Weil MH, Bisera J, Trevino RP et al (1985) Cardiac output and end-tidal carbon dioxide.
Another impetus for establishing SCUs was the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA 1987), which emphasized a decreased use of physical and chemical restraints.
3.Weil MH, Shoemaker W (1988) Competent and continuing care of the critically ill.
Leon, J.; Potter, D.; and Cunningham, P. Current and Projected Availability of Special Nursing Home Programs for Alzheimer's Disease Patients. (DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 90–3463). Rockville, Md.: Public Health Service, 1990.
43.Johnson BA, Weil MH (1991) Redefining ischemia due to circulatory failure as dual defects of oxygen deficits and carbon dioxide excesses.
Gold, D.; Sloane, P.; Mathew, L.; Bledsoe, M.; and Konanc, D. "Special Care Units: A Typology of Care Settings for Memory-Impaired Older Adults." The Gerontologist 31 (1991): 467–475.
1992 – The Wound Center opened for the treatment of chronic and non-healing wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, failing skin grafts and infected amputations.
7.Mizok BA, Weil MH (1993) Introduction: History and destiny of critical care medicine.
35.Weil MH (1994) The assault on the Swan-Ganz catheter.
1994 – The MEDPlex Ambulatory Care Center opened to replace the aging Gailor Clinic as the hospital’s outpatient treatment facility.
In 1997, approximately $82 billion was spent on nursing-home care in the United States—about 8 percent of total health care expenditures.
44.Jin X, Weil MH, Sun S et al (1998) Decreases in organ blood flows associated with increases in sublingual PCO2 during hemorrhagic shock.
Holmes, D.; Teresi, J.; Rameriz, M.; and Goldman, D. "The Measurement and Comparison of Staff Service Inputs in Special Dementia Care Units and in Traditional Nursing Home Units Using a Barcode Methodology." Journal of Mental Health and Aging 3 (1998): 195–207.
46.Groner W, Winkelman JW, Harris AG et al (1999) Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging: A new method for study of the microcirculation.
Holmes, D., and Teresi, J. "The Costs of Care in Dementia Special Care Units, As They Relate to Care Outcomes." Research and Practice in Alzheimer's Disease 4 (2000): 199–216.
2003 – The Rehabilitation Hospital of Memphis opened its doors to fill the need of post-acute care for trauma, burn and stroke patients.
2004 – The Newborn Center was dedicated as the Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center, after its founder and medical director.
20.Ebemeyer U, Peter Safar (2005) Physician, scientist, and teacher.
45.Pellis T, Weil MH, Tang W et al (2005) Increases in both buccal and sublingual partial pressure of carbon dioxide reflect decreases of tissue blood flows in a porcine model during hemorrhagic shock.
42.Weil MH, Tang W (2007) Welcoming a new era of hemodynamic monitoring: expanding from the macro to the microcirculation.
Cite this chapter as: Ristagno G., Weil M.H. (2009) History of Critical Care Medicine: The Past, the Present and the Future.
2010 – Regional Medical Center opened a dedicated orthopedic inpatient unit to total joint replacement patients.
2012 – The Vascular Institute at Regional Medical Center was opened.
2014 – The system identity Regional One Health was launched, introducing the community to the family of services offered including the acute care hospital Regional Medical Center, an extended care hospital, rehabilitation hospital, outpatient surgery center and more.
2015 – Regional One Health opened a new outpatient campus in east Memphis.
© 2019 DrFirst.com, Inc.
Medication histories delivered for populations increased 159% in 2020.3
Rate Special Care's efforts to communicate its history to employees.
Special Care jobs
Do you work at Special Care?
Is Special Care's vision a big part of strategic planning?
Zippia gives an in-depth look into the details of Special Care, including salaries, political affiliations, employee data, and more, in order to inform job seekers about Special Care. The employee data is based on information from people who have self-reported their past or current employments at Special Care. The data on this page is also based on data sources collected from public and open data sources on the Internet and other locations, as well as proprietary data we licensed from other companies. Sources of data may include, but are not limited to, the BLS, company filings, estimates based on those filings, H1B filings, and other public and private datasets. While we have made attempts to ensure that the information displayed are correct, Zippia is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. None of the information on this page has been provided or approved by Special Care. The data presented on this page does not represent the view of Special Care and its employees or that of Zippia.
Special Care may also be known as or be related to Special Care.