Princeton Health | Timeline

			2019 Princeton Health celebrates its 100th Anniversary.
			2018 Princeton HealthCare System became part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and changed its name to Penn Medicine Princeton Health.
			2013 The Jim Craigie Center for Joint Replacement opened at Princeton Medical Center.
			2012 The new, state-of-the-art hospital with 319 licensed beds and 171 acre health campus opened in May 2012. With overwhelming community support, the Design for Healing capital campaign raised over $171 million to build Princeton's new hospital.
			2010 Construction of the New University Medical Center at Princeton continued.
			2009 The final steel beam was placed in the new hospital after it was signed by employees, donors and members of the community.
			2008 On October 7, groundbreaking for a new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro took place. On June 5, the public phase of the Capital Campaign is launched with the theme, “Design for Healing”.
			2007 David and Patricia Atkinson pledged $25 million gift to the Design for Healing campaign—the largest gift to a New Jersey hospital at that time. The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services unanimously endorsed PHCS’ plans to relocate, and granted a certificate of need.
			2006 Preliminary design work for the new UMCP began. PHCS hosted an Emergency Preparedness Design Workshop with the New Jersey Hospital Association, soliciting input from emergency experts on best practices for building a new hospital with the flexibility to deal with a variety of disaster scenarios.
			2005 After a thorough and thoughtful process, PHCS Board of Trustees approved a strategic plan to build an entirely new hospital and health campus on land close to the existing site. A site was chosen for the new UMCP at U.S. 1 and Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro.
			2003 Introduction of Princeton HealthCare System as the new name of the healthcare system. The Medical Center at Princeton changed its name to University Medical Center at Princeton to reflect its role as a teaching hospital and affiliation with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Princeton Fitness & Wellness Center established. First NJ hospital with Laerdal SimMan Universal Patient Simulator Technology. Radiation Oncology Services acquired country's most advanced Linear Accelerator.
			2000 Inpatient dialysis unit opened.
			1998 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit installed
			1997 Cardiac catheterization lab opened. Princeton Caregivers established.
			1993 A new 6-story building completed to replace the former hospital building that was built in 1926.
			1986 Princeton Surgical Center opened.
			1980 Supportive Care Program (Hospice) founded.
			1978 The Medical Center at Princeton Foundation established.
			1972 Princeton Hospital changed its name to The Medical Center at Princeton. Medical Center became a teaching affiliate of Rutgers Medical School (now Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School).
			1971 Princeton House Behavioral Health established.
			1968 J Building opened, offering new laboratory and radiology services.
			1967 Department of Emergency Services established.
			1966 Department of HomeCare established.
			1963 Intensive Care Unit established.
			1957 Merwick Nursing Home opened.
			1955 Albert Einstein died at Princeton Hospital at age 76.
			1954 The first FETE, sponsored by the Auxiliary, was held to benefit the hospital. Merwick, an estate which had belonged to a former Episcopal bishop of NJ, was donated to the hospital by his son Thomas S. Matthews.
			1953 Princeton Hospital became a 138-bed hospital with the completion of its new wing.
			1944 Penicillin was administered at Princeton Hospital for the first time.
			1939 A group of Princeton Hospital volunteers was established and a First Aid Unit (ambulance service) was formed by local firefighters.
			1933 Pediatrician Jeannette Munroe, M.D. became the first female physician to join the hospital staff.
			1928 New, expanded hospital opened, with 56 beds, an operating room, a delivery room and 12 bassinets.
			1925 Hospital purchased its first x-ray machine.
			1919 Converted farmhouse opened as Princeton's first hospital.
			1918 Moses Taylor Pyne donated 5 acres on Witherspoon St. for the hospital site. Flu epidemic made a temporary hospital necessary. Community raised funds to support the establishment of a new hospital.