ESKENAZI HEALTH OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL MILESTONES
For more than 160 years, Eskenazi Health has provided high-quality, cost-eective, patient-centered health care to Central Indiana. Accredited by
The Joint Commission, named Indiana’s top hospital for community benet and avoiding overuse by the Lown Institute, nationally recognized
programs include a Level I trauma center, regional burn center, comprehensive senior care program, women’s and children’s services, teen and
adolescent care programs, Lifestyle Health & Wellness Center, Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, and a network of primary care sites located
throughout the neighborhoods of Indianapolis known as Eskenazi Health Center. Eskenazi Health also serves as the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis
Emergency Medical Services. As the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC), Eskenazi Health partners
with the Indiana University School of Medicine whose physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services. In 2013, the
Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital opened, providing a new modern and ecient facility, becoming Central Indiana’s rst Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold health care campus.
1859 Ci Hospial opens, rs o rea he smallpo epidemic, hen as a
miliar hospial. n esimaed 1,000 sic and ounded soldiers
ere reaed in a e-ear period ending in 186.
1866 Dr. reenl inon oolen named hospial superinenden. Ci Hospial
no operaes as a chari insiuion suppored b Indianapolis apaers.
1879 Dr. illiam Niles ishard appoined superinenden o Ci Hospial.
1885 loer Mission raining School or Nurses graduaes is rs class o
e nursing sudens.
1887 irs Ci Hospial ambulances begin carring sic and injured paiens.
1909 Indiana Uniersi IU School o Medicine a Indianapolis opens,
beginning a lengh eaching aliaion ih he hospial.
1914 o our-sor isolaion unis consruced, non as he Burdsal Unis.
S. Margare’s Hospial uild hires seeral Indiana ariss, including
.C. Seele, o pain murals hroughou he hospial.
1918 Social Serice Deparmen esablished o help ih social needs o paiens.
1931 Dr. Charles . Mers appoined superinenden, a pos he ould hold
unil 19.
1935 irs iron lung in he sae o Indiana insalled a Ci Hospial.
1943 o-a radios insalled in Ci Hospial ambulances. his as
he rs hospial in he naion o use his pe o radio o coordinae
ambulance dispach.
1947 Ci Hospial renamed Indianapolis eneral Hospial.
1951 eneral ssembl enacs saue creaing he Healh Hospial
Corporaion o Marion Coun.
1961 irs cancer laboraor in Indiana opened a eneral Hospial.
1969 eneral Hospial designaed b he Indiana Sae Board o Healh o be
a major rauma cener or Indiana. Midon Communi Menal Healh
opens a eneral Hospial.
1975 eneral Hospial renamed ishard Memorial Hospial.
1992 ishard Hospial becomes he rs eried eel I rauma cener in Indiana.
1995 ishard named one o he op 100 hospials in he counr or hird
consecuie ear b HCI, Inc./Mercer Consuling.
1997 Healh danage program begins sering need residens o Marion
Coun. ishard Senior Care launched.
1998 Healh Connecion – a 4-hour-a-da nursing elephone riage ssem –
begins operaion. cue Care or lders Uni esablished.
1999 he IU Naional Cener o cellence in omen’s Healh opens a
ishard. mergenc Medicine Deparmen creaed. Ne Palliaie
Care program launched.
2003 he sae-o-he-ar ichard M. airbans Burn Cener a ishard
opens, replacing he original uni.
2008 ishard Healh ging Brain Cener esablished.
2009 eerendum o build ne hospial campus approed ih 8
oer suppor.
2010 Indianapolis MS is ormed as a parnership beeen he ci and Healh
Hospial Corporaion o Marion Coun ih ishard sering as he
sponsoring hospial.
2011 ishard receies a $40 million gi rom Sidne and ois senai, hich
resuls in Healh Hospial Corporaion o Marion Coun naming he
healh ssem aer he Indianapolis couple.
2013 senai Healh es 8h Sree healh cener opens. he Sidne ois
senai Hospial and senai Healh donon campus opens.
2014 he Mahe . uein Commonground a senai Healh, a
unique oudoor green space ocused on communi, sereni and
ellness, opens.
2015 senai Healh’s donon campus achiees eadership in nerg
and nironmenal Design D old ceriicaion.
2018 or he hird ear in a ro, senai Healh named one o Becer’s
Hospial eie’s “10 op Places o or in Healhcare.”
2019 Sandra senai donaes $ million or menal healh serices, and
Midon Communi Menal Healh, a diision o senai Healh,
is renamed Sandra senai Menal Healh Cener.
2022 he ichard M. airbans Burn Cener a senai Healh is reeriied
or he seenh ime as he onl eriied adul burn cener in Indiana.
2024 senai Healh homas rlene rande Campus opens, senai
Healh’s larges oupaien acili.
[Revised 4-1-24]