University Medical Center Brackenridge (UMCB) has been the setting for pivotal moments in the lives of countless patients, families and friends. This year, the Seton Family of Hospitals celebrates the storied past and bright future of this community treasure by collecting and sharing the memories and hopes of patients, practitioners and policy makers.
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University Medical Center Brackenridge Firsts
1884 Texas’ first public hospital, City/County Hospital
1915 Austin’s first publicly funded nursing school, Brackenridge School of Nursing
1948 Central Texas’ first intercranial surgery, Brackenridge Hospital
1960 Region’s first intensive care unit
1961 Region’s first open heart surgery and heart/lung machine
1966 Modern concept of trauma center born
1972 Region’s first kidney transplant
1988 Region’s first pediatric hospital, Children’s Hospital of Austin
1995 Seton assumed operation of city-owned Brackenridge
1996 Region’s first Level II Trauma Center designation
1996 Region’s first endoscopic spine surgery
2002 Brain & Spine Center
2004 Texas’ first Joint Commission stroke certification
2005 Region’s first stereotactic radio surgery
2007 Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge established to provide the region’s first multidisciplinary medical and nursing education programs
2009 North America’s first Adult Stem Cell & Spinal Cord Injury Summit
2009 First Trauma and Critical Care Conference attracts international talent to
Austin
Cynthia tells her story
When I was about 8 years old, I was a patient in the old red brick Brackenridge, for 3 months. I had polio and was quarantined. The only treatment at the time was penicillin, which, they learned later, had no effect on a virus. They also used the “Sister Kinney” treatment, which consisted of wrapping our paralyzed limbs in hot blankets. This was during the polio epidemic and everyone was scared to death of the disease. Of course, my family was devastated but, after about a year, I was back to normal. I returned to Brackenridge as a volunteer in the ER in 1985 and joined the staff in 1992.
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