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Montefiore Milestones

The following milestones illustrate Montefiore’s tradition of leadership and responsibility:

1884	Montefiore founded by philanthropic leaders to care for patients with tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses.
1890	Montefiore was among the first to test tuberculin for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.
1905	Montefiore established one of the nation’s first hospital-based departments of social work.
1913	Montefiore expands its services to the community with new hospital in the Bronx.
1945	Nation’s first headache unit opens.
1945	Nation’s first hospital-based Department of Home Health Care created.
1947	Montefiore Medical Group established to serve one of the nation’s first HMOs.
1950	Nation’s first hospital-based Department of Social Medicine.
1958	World’s first transvenous pacemaker system developed and used at Montefiore by Dr. Seymour Furman.
1962	Loeb Center opens for post-hospital nursing care and rehabilitation.
1966	Montefiore’s Children’s Kidney Center was one of the world’s first pediatric renal programs.
1970	Nation’s first community-based lead poisoning prevention program established.
1970	Residency Program in Social Medicine established to train physicians for inner-city primary care practice.
1972	One of the nation’s first pediatric kidney transplants performed at Montefiore.
1980	Montefiore earns designation as one of the first comprehensive AIDS centers in New York state.
1981	Established the Mosholu Preservation Corporation as a powerful antidote to widespread housing deterioration and abandonment.
1989	Expansion of primary care network across the Bronx and lower Westchester.
1991	Montefiore was the first to use Taxol for the successful treatment of throat cancer.
1992	Montefiore surgeons are the first in the U.S. to perform a minimally invasive repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
1994	South Bronx Children’s Health Center opens to serve a community in need of physicians.
1995	Montefiore establishes the Care Management Organization, a pioneering provider-driven insurance structure.
1996	One of the first hospitals to utilize Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), a technology designed to help avoid medical errors.
1998	Innovative emergency room opens at the Weiler Division.
1998	Montefiore is one of the first to perform carotid stenting using a device to protect patients from stroke.
1999	Montefiore receives heart transplant designation.
2001	Montefiore becomes the nation’s first medical center to develop a Code of Organizational Ethics.
2001	The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore opens in a state-of-the-art facility.
2004	First successful operation performed to separate craniofacial conjoined twins.
2006	Our Lady of Mercy (now the North Division) joins the newly established Montefiore Health System, Inc.
2008	Montefiore leads development of a Bronx-wide consortium to share patient health information.
2008 and 2009	The Children’s Hospital and Montefiore ranked as one of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" in US News & World Report's annual listing.
2009	First pediatric heart transplant in the Bronx successfully performed at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.