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University of Missouri Hospital
University Hospital and nursing programs. In 1906 it was decided that the
hospital needed to be upgraded and a new 75 bed facility
University of Missouri Health Care was opened in 1923, bringing the total bed number to
120. Both Parker Memorial Hospital and Noyes Hospital
still serve the University Hospital as Parker and Noyes
Halls, respectively.
Geography
Location Columbia, Boone County, Missouri,
United States of America
Organisation
Care system Tertiary
Hospital type General
Affiliated University of Missouri
university
Parker Memorial Hospital, 1901.
Services
After ten years of political debate, it was decided that
Emergency Level I trauma center
department the University of Missouri needed a new hospital facility
and that this facility should be located in Columbia, Mo.
Beds 307 $13,500,000 was appropriated for construction and the
History seven floor structure was designed as a 441 bed, 28
bassinet, outpatient and emergency care facility, which
Founded 16 September 1956
was completed in 1956. The Medical Sciences Building
Links and McHaney Hall, the nurse dormitory, were connected
to the structure to make up the University of Missouri
Lists
Medical Center.
Constructed in the mid-1960s, the Harry S. Truman
University Hospital is located in Columbia, Missouri. It
Veterans Administration Hospital, located due south of
has the only Level I trauma center and helicopter service
the Medical Center, shares medical staff with the hospi-
in mid-Missouri, and the only burn intensive care unit in
tal. Also constructed in the mid-1960s was the Mid-Mis-
Mid-Missouri. It also has an accredited chest pain cen-
souri Mental Health Center. Although separate from the
ter cardiology program and a multidisciplinary digestive
hospital, Mid-Mo and the Medical Center shared many
disease program. Physicians throughout the state refer
functions and helped to reduce costs due to duplication
many of their cases to this hospital of University of Mis-
of effort. In 1976 the hospital and clinics were adminis-
souri Health Care. The hospital is affiliated with the
tratively separated from UM Medical School control and
University of Missouri and the University of Missouri
became officially known as University Hospital and Clin-
School of Medicine
ics. In 1979 a new building was constructed for the School
of Nursing.
History The parent organization of University Hospital,
University of Missouri Healthcare, struggled financially
University Hospital is the third hospital owned and op-
for several years and lost nearly $40 million between fis-
erated by the University of Missouri. Parker Memorial
cal 2000 and 2002. In 2001, hospital officials embarked on
Hospital, built in 1901, was a 45 bed facility that served
a plan to attack the deficit by laying off some employ-
as the original clinical home for the University’s medical
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Ambulance service
University Hospital Ambulance Service is an ALS emer-
gency care provider that operates from four bases strate-
gically located around Boone County. The MU Ambulance
Service is the exclusive provider for all concerts, athletic
and other events in Mizzou Sports Park and Faurot Field,
including all MU football games. University Hospital Am-
bulance Service was one of the first ALS ambulance ser-
vices in the Country and has been in operation for over
40 years.
University Hospital and Clinics
Staff for Life
ees, improving billing procedures and realigning some
hospital services. The university system hired a private
medical management firm, The Hunter Group, in 2002
which created a turnaround based on management and
accountability practice changes. Hunter Management al-
so recruited nearly 50 new faculty members.
In 2003, MU Health reported more than $8 million in
profits, and Hunter Management handed control back to
MU in spring 2004. In fiscal years 2006-2007, the system
continued its financial turnaround by posting combined
earnings of $72.7 million.
In 2009 ground was broken for a new $203 million
dollar patient care tower to be located north of the hos- Staff for Life 1
pital main entrance. The six story patient care tower is
expected to house Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, room for Staff for Life Helicopter Service, a partnership between
up to 12 additional operating rooms and 51 pre-and post- Air Methods and the University of Missouri Health Care
operation recovery rooms, and 90 private patient rooms. System, operates helicopters based in Columbia, Osage
The addition is expected to be complete by 2013.[1][2][3] Beach, Missouri, and LaMonte, Missouri. The Staff for
Life Helicopter Service was initiated in November 1982.
Trauma and emergency care Crews consist of three personnel: a pilot, a flight nurse,
and a flight paramedic. Each year, the team makes more
The Frank L. Mitchell Jr., M.D., Trauma Center at Univer-
than a thousand emergency and patient transport flights.
sity Hospital is designated a Level I trauma center by the
state of Missouri and is one of only two Level I trauma
centers in Missouri verified by the Committee on Trauma Other specialty services
of the American College of Surgeons. Approximately University Hospital contains the region’s only cochlear
45,000 patients are seen each year in its emergency room. implant center (through the Mason Eye Institute), a di-
abetes center, an ophthalmology institute, a sleep disor-
ders center, the only burn center in Mid-Missouri (The
George David Peak Memorial Burn Care Center) and a
SameDay Surgery Center that offers hundreds of differ-
ent procedures in its fully equipped operating rooms.
Educational affiliates
Sinclair School of Nursing
Even though the School of Nursing was not an estab-
lished part of the University of Missouri School of
Medicine until 1920, MU graduated its first class of nurses
MU ambulance in 1904. Those first few graduated from Parker Memorial
Hospital Training School for Nurses with a three year de-
gree in nursing.
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In 1973 the school became an autonomous division; • 1970 - Dr. John C Schuder develops the first
additionally, construction on the School of Nursing automatic and completely implanted defibrillator for
building was begun in 1978, with the building being occu- the human heart
pied in 1979. The School changed its name to the Sinclair • 1970’s - Origin of the first paramedic program in the
School of Nursings after an endowment made by Charles state by Frank L. Mitchell, Jr. MD
and Josie Smith Sinclair in 1994. • 1972 - Gilbert Ross, MD, leads the first kidney
Affiliated with the Sinclair School of Nursing are: transplant procedure in central Missouri
Tiger Place, a retirement home that is a joint venture • 1977 - George Peak Memorial burn intensive care
between the School of Nursing and Americare;[4][5] MU unit opened
Sinclair Home Care, a home care arm of the School that • 1982 - Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Zuhdi Lababidi
was purchased in 2009 by Oxfard Healthcare;[6] and the performs the first pediatric angioplasty to correct
MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging, which combines aortic valve stenosis in newborns
all three health science schools in an effort to enhance • 1982 - Foundation of Staff for Life helicopter service
the quality of health care for older adults.[6] • 1996 - Dr. Zuhdi Lababidi performs his pediatric
angioplasty procedure on a patient weighing 13
MU School of Medicine ounces, the smallest patient known to have
The University of Missouri School of Medicine was the undergone the procedure
first publicly supported medical school west of the Mis- • 2002 - MU’s Randall Prather along with Immerge
sissippi River.[7] Created as the Medical School of the BioTherapeutics, clones the first miniature swine
University of the State of Missouri in 1873, Parker Memo- with a specific gene that causes human rejection
rial Hospital was the clinical site for studies when it was “knocked out” of their DNA. The feat takes scientists
built in 1901. a step closer to the possibility of pig-to-human organ
Today the MU School of Medicine operates out of transplantation
University Hospital and Clinics and is a primary provider • 2006 - In 2006 and 2009, University Hospital was
of training for all physicians in Missouri. The School of named a Chest Pain Center for Excellence by the
Medicine’s more than 650 faculty physicians and scien- Society of Chest Pain Centers
tists educate approximately 1,000 medical students, res- • 2009 - University Hospital’s Medical and
idents, fellows and other students seeking advanced de- Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (MNSICU) wins
grees. Prospective students compete for 96 first-year the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’
slots. The School uses a problem-based learning style, Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. This
which emphasizes self-directed learning and early clini- marks the first time a hospital in Missouri has won
cal experience.[7] this prestigious award.
• 2009 - The MU Health System receives the 2009
MU School of Health Professions Honoring Outstanding People Everywhere (HOPE)
The MU School of Health Professions (SHP) is the Univer- Award for the forYOU Team, a group of
sity of Missouri system’s only school of health profes- approximately 50 trained physicians, nurses,
sions and the state’s only public allied health program chaplains, social workers and other health care
located on a health sciences campus. The school com- professionals who provide 24-hour peer support and
prises five departments and ten disciplines, each with counseling to colleagues affected by stressful events
their own specialized accreditation processes. Examples while caring for patients.[9][10][11]
of the programs within the School of Health Professions
include: Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy, Nuclear
Medicine, and Radiologic Science.[8]
References
[1] Plans approved for new tower at University
Notable advances [2]
Hospital - Columbia Missourian
History of the Review of the Hospital 1986
• 1958 - The first open-heart surgery in mid-Missouri [3] Hospital business keeps on showing pattern of
performed at University Hospital growth
• 1962 - A giant coronary artery aneurysm successfully [4] Independent Living Columbia - TigerPlace -
resected for the first time in the world Columbia, MO 65201
• 1966 - MU completes construction on its world-class [5] Aging in Place - TigerPlace
Research Reactor Center, which focuses on nuclear [6] ^ Our history | Sinclair School of
medicine research, including medical diagnostic Nursing|University of Missouri
tools and radiopharmaceuticals [7] ^ History of the School of Medicine | Mizzou -
• 1968 - Foundation of first ambulance service in mid- University of Missouri
Missouri, based out of University Hospital [8] http://shp.missouri.edu/about/index.php
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[9] http://www.modernmedicine.com/
modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/
Sources
Sharing-the-load-of-a-nurse-second-victim/ • MU Health Care
ArticleStandard/Article/detail/ • University Hospital’s 50th Anniversary
570171?contextCategoryId=47338 • Goldstein, Max A. One Hundred Years of Medicine
[10] A Mizzou Timeline of Accomplishments | Office of and Surgery in Missouri. St. Louis Star. 1900.
the Chancellor • Potter, Ruby Mildred. A Portrait of Success: Mizzou
[11] Facts and Figures Nursing, 1901-1989. UMC. 1989.
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