St Lukes Episcopal Hospital Indpt Practice Assoc Inc 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.

It was around 1966, and Frazier, now one of the world's most celebrated heart surgeons, was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine.

Haskell Karp became the first patient to receive a artificial heart in 1969 at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital.

A soup kitchen begun in 1973 has grown to include daily meals, a job assistance program, health referral services, and a mailroom.

Bill Bolling started the Atlanta Community Food Bank in the church basement in 1979.

Yet following the conclusion of his medical fellowship at Texas Heart Institute in 1987, Radovancevic routinely issued orders for patients in Frazier's program, prescribed drugs, took resident medical students on rounds, helped harvest organs for transplant and provided post-surgical patient care.

1990 St Luke's Medical Tower—now known as The O'Quinn Medical Tower at St Luke's—opened, earning the distinction of being the icon most associated with the Texas Medical Center.

Doctor O.H. "Bud" Frazier, right, takes questions from the media at a 1991 press conference after implanting the world's first portable left-ventricular assist device into a patient at St Luke's.

Early milestones drew national media attention, including in 1992, when a 34-year-old patient walked out of St Luke's a year after receiving a battery-powered LVAD, the first in the world to do so.

Her 1994 lawsuit, which was backed by patient records, testimony and secret recordings of hospital employees, revealed that Frazier's signature stamp was sometimes used to authorize the researcher's improper medical orders.

A $10 million renovation of the sanctuary was completed in 1999.

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

Doctor Frank Smart joined Texas Heart Institute as medical director of the transplant and LVAD program in 2003 and quickly grew troubled by what he saw.

Cohn, the surgeon who worked closely with Frazier after joining the program in 2004, recalled the disagreement.

The overarching frustration that drove him to complain to a top St Luke's executive before leaving in 2006: Smart believed the program, under Frazier's guidance, was putting LVAD research ahead of what was best for patients.

Radovancevic remained an active partner in Frazier's research until his death in 2007 at the age of 55.

Not mentioned in the announcement: In 2008, the hospital had learned of "serious and repeated" problems associated with its participation in that trial.

Frazier said he held the options until March 2009, when he transferred them to his son, Todd, a musician.

From 2010-15, Frazier implanted long-lasting left ventricular assist devices in 63 Medicare patients, according to a ProPublica review of federal data.

Executives at the hospital — known at the time as St Luke's Episcopal prior to its 2013 acquisition by Catholic Health Initiatives — were troubled by what they were learning.

2014 Catholic Health Initiatives and Baylor College of Medicine signed a joint agreement to open an acute-care, open-staff hospital on Baylor’s McNair Campus, which is currently home to the Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center and the Lee and Joe Jamail Specialty Care Center.

Elizabeth has served at St Lukes since February 2015.

2016 St Luke’s Health–Springwoods Village medical campus opened on a mixed-used community home to provide emergency services, diagnostic imaging, and outpatient surgery to the residents and employee population in the surrounding North Harris County area.

A graduate of Morehouse College, Boston University, and Vanderbilt in theological studies, Horace came to St Luke's in July 2017 after a twenty-seven year vocation as a college and seminary professor and hospital chaplain.

He recently was awarded the Associated Press Media Editors storytelling award, is a four-time Livingston Awards finalist, and in 2018 was named Star Reporter of the Year for the state of Texas.

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