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1852

1852 – New Orleans Philanthropist Judah Touro purchases the Paulding mansion on Gaienne and Old Levee Streets and converts it into a 28-bed hospital.

1854

1854 – Judah Touro dies on January 18, 1854, and the hospital is named Touro Infirmary in his honor.

1895

1895 – Doctor Rudolph Matas, one of the most innovative and well known surgeons in the country transferred from the old New Orleans Sanitarium to Touro Infirmary.

1896

1896 – The Touro Infirmary School of Nursing opens under the direction of Frances Quaife.

1898

1898 – The Julius Weis Home for the Aged and Infirm opens.

1922

1922 - Touro Infirmary Maternity Service is established and Touro purchases the first incubators in New Orleans.

1923

1923 – Touro is one of fifteen hospitals to receive Rockefeller funding for insulin testing under the direction of I.I. Lemann.

1929

#Throwback to a 1929 team of Touro doctors and nurses performing surgery on a patient.

1929 – The first Physical Therapy Department in the city is established at Touro Infirmary.

1940

Touro patients relaxing in the Augustine Bloch Building Solarium, 1940.

1943

1943 photo of a line for the rationing board by John Vachon for the Office of War Information.

1965

1965 – The new Hortense and Jacob Aaron Building expands Touro Infirmary’s capacity to 560 beds and created a main entrance on Foucher Street.

1977

1977 – The Touro Patient Services Complex including the Nadler-Bloch Nuclear Medicine Department opens.

1980

1980 – Ground breaking takes place for the Buckman Medical Office Building.

1987

1987 – The Judah Touro Society is founded and the first annual dinner is a successful fundraising venture.

1989

Stephen Goldring receives the first Judah Touro Society Award in 1989.

1990

1990 – The Board of Trustees approves the establishment of the Touro Infirmary Foundation.

2005

2005 – Hurricane Katrina forces Touro Infirmary to close its doors for the first time since the Civil War.

2009

2009 – Touro solidifies its identity as “the place where babies come from” with the third highest number of deliveries for any single hospital in Louisiana.

2009 – Touro and Children’s Hospital partner to form a two-hospital medical system, LCMC Health, providing a complete continuum of care from birth to geriatrics.

2009 – Touro opens a new state-of-the-art Imaging Center at the corner of Claiborne and Napoleon Avenues.

2012

2012 – Touro completes renovations to its first floor main entrance and first, second and third floor corridors that are intended to recall the building’s original design.

2015

2015 – LCMC Health expands to include University Medical Center and West Jefferson Medical Center.

2016

2016 – Touro earns certification as a Primary Stroke Center and relocates its outpatient rehabilitation services to a new, expanded facility at 1525 St Charles Ave.

2018

2018 – Touro’s Cancer Care Program is among 16 nationwide to be recognized for Outstanding Achievement by the Commission on Cancer.

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