St Lukes Medical Center history

1961 Partnership between St Luke’s and Baylor begins, with St Luke’s serving as a teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine medical students.

1962 Begins its relationship with Texas Heart® Institute—a research and education partner.

In 1973, the St Louis area's first hyperbaric chamber was installed at St Luke's.

The first St Luke's Urgent Care Center opened in 1982.

Until it closed in 1988, it had been the oldest nursing school in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River.

That changed in 1989 with the construction of Saint Luke’s North Hospital—Barry Road and our acquisition of Spelman Memorial Hospital, now Saint Luke's North Hospital—Smithville, in the northern part of Kansas City.

In 1990, Saint Luke’s Hospital officially became a primary teaching hospital of the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine.

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City’s Crittenton Children’s Center, which cares for the emotional health of children and families, officially joined the health system in 1992.

2002 The Denton A. Cooley Building is dedicated in honor of Texas Heart Instiute Founder and President Emeritus Denton A. Cooley, MD

Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, Missouri, joined Saint Luke's in 2003.

2004 Baylor College of Medicine and St Luke’s Episcopal Health System enter into a new affiliation agreement that significantly expanded St Luke’s relationship as Baylor’s private adult affiliated teaching hospital.

2005 St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital was re-designated a Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

2008 St Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital opens to provde medical and surgical clinical services, including women’s health, emergency care, intensive care, and diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization labs in one Texas’ fastest growing communities.

2009 St Luke’s Lakeside Hospital opens–specializing in sports medicine and orthopedic/spine surgery services.

2013 The Episcopal Diocese of Texas transfers ownership of St Luke’s Episcopal Health to Catholic Health Initiatives, the nation’s third-largest faith-based health system.

St Luke's opened its eighth urgent care center in 2015.

It was created in February 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health.