|
Year |
Milestone |
| 1955 |
Purchased first heart pump in
Wisconsin, the forerunner of today's heart-lung machine |
| 1957 |
Performed first open heart
procedure |
| 1960 |
Initiated Wisconsin's first
cardiac catheterization program |
| 1961 |
Implanted Milwaukee's first
pacemaker |
| 1968 |
Performed first multiple
coronary bypass surgery among Milwaukee's private hospitals |
| 1968 |
Performed first heart
transplant in the Midwest |
| 1985 |
Became first hospital in
nation to offer Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMLR) to restore
blood flow to damaged heart muscle |
| 1986 |
Implanted Wisconsin's first
Jarvik-7 artificial heart as a bridge to transplant |
| 1987 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to use the drug TPA for emergency treatment of heart attack victims |
| 1987 |
Established St. Luke's
Immunotherapy Program based on work conducted at the National Cancer
Institute, becoming Wisconsin's first hospital to offer cellular
immunotherapy to stimulate cancer-fighting cells |
| 1989 |
Became one of 12 medical
centers nationwide to perform an atherectomy procedure |
| 1989 |
Performed the first
successful coronary laser angioplasty in Wisconsin |
| 1990 |
Performed 100th heart
transplant operation since initiating the program in 1968 |
| 1990 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to receive Medicare approval for heart transplants |
| 1990 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to send patients home with semiautomatic defibrillator system |
| 1991 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to insert a "stent" into a patient's coronary artery to prevent
collapsing |
| 1991 |
Received United Network for
Organ Sharing (UNOS) approval for lung transplantation and performed the
first lung transplant operation |
| 1991 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to implant the pneumatic Heartmate, a ventricular assist device |
| 1994 |
Became first hospital in
Midwest to offer vented electric Heartmate ventricular assist device, and
first to manage care of a patient at home while heart was being supported by
the device |
| 1998 |
Ranked first among all
Milwaukee hospitals in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics and overall care by
America's Health Network |
| 1998 |
Became first hospital in the
Midwest to implant a permanent ventricular assist device |
| 1998 |
Received UNOS approval for
liver transplantation and performed the first liver transplant operation |
| 1999 |
Performed 300th bone marrow
transplant since program began in 1991 |
| 1999 |
Received UNOS and Medicare
approvals for kidney transplantation |
| 1999 |
Performed first multiple
organ (heart-kidney) transplant operation |
| 1999 |
Performed first cadaver
kidney transplant operation |
| 2000 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital to offer Gamma Knife technology for non-invasive treatment of brain
disorders |
| 2000 |
Performed first live donor
kidney transplant operation |
| 2000 |
Nurses earned Magnet
certification from the American Nurses Association, signifying excellence in all
areas of nursing |
| 2000 |
Became first hospital in the
country to install breakthrough "open" MRI |
| 2001 |
Became nation's first
hospital to use microwave ablation to treat atrial fibrillation |
| 2001 |
Named one of top 10 hospitals
in nations for volume of adult heart transplants and best one-year survival
rates |
| 2002 |
Performed first robotic
surgery, involving the removal of a tumor behind the heart |
| 2002 |
Performed Midwest's first
closed-chest coronary bypass surgery with robotic surgical system |
| 2003 |
Performed 500th heart
transplant operation since first heart transplant in 1968 |
| 2003 |
Performed Wisconsin's first
ceramic-on-ceramic hip implant |
| 2003 |
Performed Wisconsin's first
beating heart valve repair surgery |
| 2003 |
Performed nation's first
atrial fib ablation combining arrhythmia mapping and ultrafast CT imaging
technology |
| 2003 |
First robotic prostatectomy
in Wisconsin |
| 2005 |
Nurses again receive Magnet
certification from the American Nurses Association |
| 2005 |
100th robotic prostatectomy,
the first in Wisconsin to reach that level |
| 2006 |
Became Wisconsin's first
hospital and one of the 40 in the U.S. to install Cyberknife, an advanced
system for treating inoperable cancers of the head, neck, spine, lung, liver
and pancreas |
| 2006 |
Performed the state's first
implant of the only FDA approved temporary Total Artificial Heart |
| 2007 |
Inpatient rehabilitation
programs are the 1st in Wisconsin to achieve accreditation by Commission on
Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities as stroke specialty programs |
