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Milestones 1966 On Jan. 5, 1966, Memorial Northwest Hospital opens as the third satellite facility to Memorial Baptist Hospital. The 130-bed full-service facility joins the nation’s first satellite hospital system.
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1969 A coronary care unit is installed at the hospital, part of Memorial Baptist’s plan to have such a unit in each satellite hospital in its system.
1971 Contributed Photo Today, Memorial Hermann Greater Heights admits more than 11,000 patients and provides care for approximately 60,000 emergency department visits each year. The hospital is home to nationally-recognized programs in heart and vascular care, cancer screening and treatment, total joint replacement, and top tier rehabilitation, as well as women’s care and a Level III Trauma emergency center.
Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital continues growth as it turns 50 years old The debut of Medicare was less than six months away, a gallon of gas cost 32 cents, the average home price in the United States was $14,200 and Houston’s Interstate 610 was years from becoming “The Loop” when Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital opened its doors for the first time in January 1966. Now 50 years young, the hospital continues to serve the Greater Heights communities and will celebrate its golden anniversary throughout the year with expanded healthcare services, facility enhancements and a host of community and employee events. “We are so proud to have provided people with quality healthcare for the last 50 years,” said Sr. Vice President and CEO of Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Susan Jadlowski. “We’ve grown with the community generation after generation and we are excited about our growth now and for the years to come.” Primary care physician Tara Shani, M.D., who began working at the hospital in 1980, has seen the growth of Memorial Hermann Greater Heights on multiple levels.
“I still treat families which have evolved into a third generation: grandparents, parents and now their children,” Dr. Shani said. Physicians have grown at the hospital as well, including Dr. Shani’s son, orthopedic surgeon Raj Shani, M.D., who used to attend rounds with his mother as a child. The Shanis are one of four families with two genera-
tions of physicians concurrently affiliated with the hospital. “It’s a proud moment for me to see my son working in the same place where I started,” Dr. Tara Shani said. “Maybe my grandchildren will be physicians here one day.” The growth of Memorial Hermann Greater Heights was See Turning 50 P. 7B
1989 The six-story North Tower opens.
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1997 Nov. 4, 1997 – The hospital changes its name to Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital as a result of the Memorial Healthcare System and Hermann Hospital merger.
2003 July 14, 2003 – The 165,000 sq. ft. South Tower is opened, featuring a revamped family birthing center (increasing from 15 beds to 30), ambulatory medicine center, 8 additional ICU beds and a 40bed orthopedic/surgical unit. The addition helps to expand the number of affiliated physicians with the hospital to more than 600. Three months later, the hospital opens an outpatient testing center. August 2005 – The hospital begins performing open-heart surgery and interventional cardiology.
2012 Feb. 21, 2012 - Dr. Michael P. Macris, boardcertified in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, performed the first live surgical twittercast of a beating open heart surgery in the United States at the hospital.
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Contributed Photo Memorial Hermann Greater Heights originally opened as Memorial Northwest Hospital in January 1966 as part of the nation’s first satellite hospital system. The hospital, which was originally two floors, looks much different today.
2016 Jan. 5, 2016 – The hospital officially turns 50 years old.
Advancing Heart Health in The Heights Michael Macris, M.D., a Memorial Hermann-affiliated cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, founded the Memorial Hermann Greater Heights cardiovascular program in 2005 and serves as its medical director. “At Memorial Hermann Greater Heights we offer state-of-the-art
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expertise when caring for patients who arrive at its Emergency Center with symptoms of a heart attack. Memorial Hermann Greater Heights consistently achieves the gold standard of 90 minutes or less doorto-balloon time between patients’ arrival and undergoing balloon angioplasty to open blocked arteries. Additionally, the hospital recently won the Cardiac Award for hospitals with fewer than 250 beds from the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council, the agency coordinating trauma providers in a nine-county area of Southeast Texas.
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February is American Heart Month to bring awareness to heart disease as the leading cause of death among Americans. For Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital, every month is heart month as it educates residents in The Heights and surrounding neighborhoods about heart-healthy living and delivers award-winning cardiovascular care in a family-type atmosphere. The hospital’s comprehensive cardiovascular program features a wide range of specialized services, clinical excellence and state-of-the-art technology. Numerous awards validate a relentless focus on exceeding national quality standards.
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2015 Sept. 11, 2015 – TIRR inpatient services are officially added to hospital, bringing world-class rehabilitative inpatient care to the Greater Heights. Oct. 14, 2015 – Hospital renamed Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital; Memorial Hermann announces plans for Urgent Care Center (2016) and Convenient Care Center (2017) to further meet the healthcare needs of the surrounding communities.
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Hospital capacity is expanded from 130 beds to 220, making the hospital the largest in northwest Houston at the time.
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treatment for heart surgery patients,” says Dr. Macris, a second-generation student of the Cooley/DeBakey School of Cardiovascular Surgery. “Our multidisciplinary cardiac care team is constantly honing patient care plans, studying literature, going to meetings and staying abreast of the newest developments in cardiovascular surgery.” A frequently performed heart procedure at Memorial Hermann
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