The History of Texas Medical Center 91 YEARS AGO THE TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER (TMC) TOOK THE FIRST Since then, TMC has pioneered medical innovations bordering on the impossible. Many of these advancements continue to change people’s lives. This timeline celebrates our milestones and breakthroughs, and the profound impact STEPS TOWARD BECOMING THE WORLD’S LARGEST MEDICAL COMPLEX. they’ve made across the entire spectrum of patient care. 1925 1942 1950 1968 1976 2011 2014 Hermann Hospital opens to the The University of Texas creates MD Leopold Meyer starts building Dr. Denton Cooley performs one of Hermann Hospital launches Life Researchers from Rice University Over 150 member and community public and admits its first patient. Anderson Hospital of Cancer and a three-story, 106-bed Texas the first heart transplants in the U.S. Flight, the first private hospital air and Baylor College of Medicine leaders gather to discuss the future Research of The University of Texas, Children’s Hospital. at Texas Heart Institute. ambulance service. discover a way to grow blood vessels of TMC and position it as the world’s the first member institution of TMC. and capillaries. leader in life sciences. 1900 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2016 2014 TMC launches the Innovation Institute, the first of five institutes, developed to foster collaboration across the member institutions. 2015 The Health Policy Institute is 1936 1943 1964 1971 1991 2012 launched in 2015. TMC Health Policy Monroe Anderson and trustees The City of Houston provides 134 Dr. Michael DeBakey performs Texas Children’s Hospital collaborates Texas Heart Institute releases Texas Children’s Hospital delivers is the second of five collaborative establish MD Anderson Foundation acres next to Hermann Hospital to world’s first coronary artery with NASA to construct plastic first patient in the world with Perkins sextuplets—the only programs created by TMC to elevate with $300,000. establish a hospital district. Baylor bypass procedure at The isolator bubble for boy born with an electric, portable, battery- surviving sextuplets in Texas— the collective resources of its University College of Medicine Methodist Hospital. severe immune disorder. powered heart pump. at 30 weeks. member institutions on a national moves from Dallas to Houston and and global scale. becomes a member of TMC. Photos courtesy of the Texas Medical Center and the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research at the TMC library..