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- 1959 - Florida’s
first open heart surgery on an 8-year-old patient.
- 1960 - Florida’s first Neonatal Care Unit is established.
- 1962 - The Birth
Defects Treatment
Center for Children was established
at Shands at the University of Florida
with a grant from the National March of Dimes Foundation.
- 1966 - Maternal and Infant Care Program at Shands
at the University of Florida
was established to serve North Central Florida.
- 1966 - UF
physicians at Shands at UF perform state's first successful adult and pediatric
kidney transplants.
- 1967 - Florida’s first pediatric intensive care unit is
established at Shands at the University of Florida.
- 1976 - Florida’s
first Regional Pediatric
Pulmonary Center
opens.
- 1976 - Shands at the University
of Florida open’s U.S. ’s
first computerized cardiac catheterization lab equipped to treat adults and
children.
- 1983 - Florida’s first pediatric bone marrow transplant for
cancer is performed by UF physicians at Shands Children's Hospital at UF.
- 1985 – Shands at UF joins Children’s Miracle
Network, an international alliance of premier hospitals for children.
- 1988 -
2006 Shands Children’s Hospital launch the First “Red Alert” Asthma Program in
the United
States .
- 1986 - UF physicians at Shands Children's
Hospital at UF perform Florida's
first pediatric heart transplant.
- 1990 - Shands
Children's Hospital, the Southeast’s first pediatric neuro-oncology center,
opens.
- 1991 - UF
physicians at Shands Children's Hospital at UF perform Florida's
first pediatric kidney-liver transplant.
- 1991 - UF
physicians at Shands at the University
of Florida perform Florida’s
first pediatric segmental liver transplant.
- 1993 - UF
physicians at Shands Children’s Hospital at the University
of Florida perform Florida’s
first neonatal heart transplant.
- 1994 – Shands
Children’s Hospital was the first to perform a pediatric heart-kidney
transplant in the state of Florida.
- 1995 - UF physicians at Shands Children's
Hospital at UF perform Florida's
first neonatal heart transplant.
- 1995 - UF
physicians perform the Southeast's first pediatric placenta/umbilical cord
blood transplant for Leukemia.
- 1995 – Shands at the University
of Florida was the first hospital
with an In Vitro Fertilization program in the southeast to have a baby born
after pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
- 1996 - Shands Children’s Hospital receives its
designation as a children’s hospital.
- 1996 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do a pediatric lung transplant.
- 1996 - Shands Children's Hospital was the first
on Florida to do Gene Therapy for
Cystic Fibrosis.
- 1997 - Shands Children's Hospital was the first
in Florida to do a Pediatric
Heart-Lung Transplant.
- 1997 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do a Pediatric Pancreas-Liver Transplant.
- 1997 – Shands
at the University of Florida was the first in the region to perform a Rotational
arthroplasty for bone cancer.
- 1997 - UF physicians at Shands at UF perform the United States ’
first embryonic tissue transplant for spinal cord repair.
- 1998 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do a Pediatric Double Lung Transplant.
- 1999 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do Interventional Cardiology in small infants.
- 2000 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do a Cord-Blood Transplant for Sickle Cell Anemia.
- 2002 - The Ronald McDonald House opens in the pediatric
family hospitality suite near PICU at Shands at the University
of Florida.
- 2002 - The Shirley A. Graves, M.D. and James L.
Talbert, M.D. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit opens in new location - all
individual, private rooms – at Shands at the University of Florida.
- 2002 - Shands
Children's Hospital was the first in Florida
to do the youngest Double Lung Transplant.
- 2003 - Shands Children's Hospital was the first
in Florida to do a Recombinant
Protein Replacement for Pompe's Disease.
- 2004 - UF physicians at Shands at the University
of Florida perform Florida's
first procedure to remove pediatric hypothalamic hamartoma.
- 2004 - Shands Children’s Hospital is one of 10
children’s hospitals in the nation to partner with March of Dimes to establish the
NICU Family Support Program.
- 2004 - Pediatric Hospitalist Service Program is
established at the Shands Children's Hospital.
- 2005 - The Donald V. Eitzman, M.D. Regional
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level 3 expands at Shands Children’s Hospital
through a grant provided by Children’s Miracle Network.
- 2005 - Pediatric Catheterization Lab Opens at
Shands Children's Hospital.
- 2005 - Pediatric Dialysis celebrates 30 years of
excellence at Shands Children’s Hospital.
- 2006 – Shands
at the University of Florida is the first in the region to perform a Titanium
rib surgery to treat pediatric patient with Scoliosis.
- 2006 - First
patient in Florida to receive the Berlin Heart - mechanical
heart device sized for children, at Shands at the University of Florida.
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