EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — University Medical Center (UMC) of El Paso is celebrating 108 years serving the Borderplex region.
Last week, UMC celebrated a century’s worthy of milestones and achievements.
When it archetypal opened its doors successful 1915, it was known arsenic El Paso County General Hospital.
In 1959, the El Paso County Hospital District was created and approved by section voters, which paved the mode for a caller infirmary building.
The infirmary was to beryllium named R.E. Thomason General Hospital, successful grant of Robert Ewing Thomason, a erstwhile politician of El Paso and a United States territory justice for the Western District of Texas.
“As I propulsion this archetypal spade of dirt,” R.E. Thomason said astatine the 1961 groundbreaking ceremony, “it is my anticipation and supplication that the fine, modern infirmary to beryllium erected connected this tract volition basal for galore years to attraction for the sick and suffering successful El Paso and the Southwest.”
In 1963, the 335-bed R.E. Thomason General Hospital, built by Robert E. McKee General Contractor, opened to the public. Ten years later, successful 1973, the infirmary was designated arsenic the superior teaching infirmary of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) and successful 1975, the infirmary received accreditation by the Joint Commission connected Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO).
A $35 cardinal dollar renovation and enlargement task followed and improved its exigency section and pediatric intensive attraction unit. El Paso’s archetypal heliport was added successful 1986. The infirmary was rebranded arsenic University Medical Center of El Paso successful 2009.
In grant of 108 years of service, banners citing UMC’s historical travel volition bent astatine the main campus, located astatine 4815 Alameda Avenue, and astatine clinics passim El Paso.
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