| May 7, 1884 |
The cornerstone laid for Cedar Rapids' first hospital: St. Luke's. |
| 1912 |
Gas anesthesia used for major surgery for the first time in Iowa at St. Luke's. |
| 1914 |
First Caesarean delivery in Cedar Rapids performed at St. Luke's. |
| 1944 |
St. Luke's opens a School of X-Ray Technology |
| 1966 |
The first intensive Coronary Care Unit in a private hospital in Iowa opens at St. Luke's. |
| 1972 |
First total joint replacement performed in Cedar Rapids at St. Luke's |
| 1975 |
The Dental Health Center for low-income patients established at St. Luke's. |
| 1977 |
The first Level II Regional Neonatal Care unit in Cedar Rapids is established at St. Luke's. |
| June 27, 1978 |
The first open-heart surgery performed in Cedar Rapids at St. Luke's |
| 1983 |
St. Luke's becomes the first private hospital in Iowa to offer Digital Subtraction Angiography. |
| 1983 |
First cardiac rehab facility in eastern Iowa. |
| 1990 |
First community hospital to put in an internal cardiac defibrillator. |
| 1995 |
First community hospital to put in cardiac stents. |
| 1996 |
First hospital in the state to do jet ventilation with air neonatal transport |
| 1999 |
First community hospital to use AngioJet System to treat blood clots. |
| 2001 |
First in the state to have private Neonatal Intensive Care rooms. |
| 2001 |
First eastern Iowa hospital to implement EECP (for angina). |
| 2001 |
First in the state to use Beta-Cath System for treating heart disease. |
| 2001 |
St. Luke's opens Cedar Rapids' largest outpatient surgery facility. |
| 2002 |
First hospital in Iowa to use InFUSE Bone Grafts to treat low back pain. |
| 2002 |
First in Cedar Rapids to use Frontrunner Coronary Catheters. |
| 2002- 2003 |
First hospital to used medicated stents in treating heart disease. |
| 2005 |
First in Cedar Rapids to perform robot-assisted surgery. |
| 2006 |
First program in the state to receive the CARF Inpatient Rehabilitation Stroke Specialty Program accreditation. |
| 2006 |
First Hospitalist Program in Cedar Rapids began at St. Luke's. |
| 2007 |
First patent foramen ovale (PFO) procedure at a Cedar Rapids hospital. |
| 2007 |
First hospital in the state to install a Siemens SOMATOM Definition CT scanner, the world's most advanced computed tomography system. |
| 2009 |
First program in the state to receive the CARF Inpatient Rehabilitation Brain Injury Program accreditation. |
| 2010 |
First hospital in the state to earn the IRPE Gold Award. |
| 2011 |
Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center opens. |
| 2012 |
First hospital in the state to offer intraoperative radiation therapy in an operating room.
|
| 2013 |
Among the first hospitals in the state to
offer a new radioactive injection, Radium 223, for the treatment of advanced prostate
cancer, which can extend the lives of
certain men with advanced prostate cancer.
|
| 2014 |
First hospital in Cedar Rapids to perform Bronchial Thermoplasty
|
| 2014 |
Achieved Magnet recognition for
the second time from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC),
signifying successful implementation of the national Magnet standards
for nursing excellence.
|
| 2014 |
Mayo Clinic Care Network member
|
| 2015 |
6 time Top 100 Hospital award recipient
|
| 2016 |
Heart & Vascular Institute performs first TAVR in Cedar Rapids |
| 2017 |
Becker's Hospital Review Top 100 hospital for the fourth time. |
| 2018 |
Achieved Magnet recognition for the third time from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), signifying successful implementation of the national Magnet standards for nursing excellence.
|
| 2018 |
Heart & Vascular Institute performs first mitral valve commissurotomy |
| 2019 |
One of the first hospitals in the state to offer a minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer. |
| 2020 |
First minimally invasive rib fracture surgery in Iowa using a new rib fixation system. |