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‘A Hospital of Great Importance’

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Established in 1903

story by WILL MADDOX

HOSPITAL HISTORY

The Texas Memorial Sanitarium was estab-W lished in 1903 on the site of the Good Samaritan Hospital in East Dallas. when dr. charles rosser founded the university of Dallas Medical Department in 1900, there wasn’t a nearby hospital that accepted medical students for training. So, he established his own by purchasing a two-story, 14-room mansion on Junius Street in East Dallas and named the 25-bed facility the Good Samaritan Hospital when it opened in 1901. At the time, an office visit c t $1 and a home visit cost $2, with 50 cents added every mile the physician traveled beyond Dallas city limits. On the same site in 1903, the Texas Memorial Sanitarium was established and eventually the school and hospital became affil ted with Baylor University and was renamed the Baylor University Medical Center. In 1950, another expansion led to a seven-story, George W. Truett Memorial Hospital on the Baylor University Hospital campus.

Nine years ago, Baylor Health Care and Scott & White Healthcare combined, creating Texas’ most extensive nonprofit healthcare sytem. Today, it has 52 hospitals, with academic medical centers in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Temple. The system delivered on Rosser’s mission to build “a hospital of great importance.” Even back then, he believed his actions would be “the initial step in the promotion of a great general hospital of the future.”

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