| 1931 | Children's Convalescent Hospital opened at Wellington Place |
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Child Life program is created at Cincinnati Children's, as the Division of Recreation |
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Cincinnati Children's Research Library (now Pratt Library) opens |
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May 20, 1931 |
Children's Hospital Research Foundation dedicated (and first B.K. Rachford Memorial Lecture) |
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1932 |
Cincinnati Pediatric Society founded |
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Children's Hospital Thrift Shop opens (closed in 1992) |
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January 1, 1932 |
Josef Warkany, M.D., joins Children's Hospital |
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December 1935 |
Cincinnati Children's launches its first public fundraising campaign, raising over $120,000 ($2.3 million today) |
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1936 |
A two-year pediatric residency program and first surgery residency is established |
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1938 |
First CHRF Advisory Council |
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Ruth Lyons begins Christmas fund for children's toys |
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1939 |
Louise Rauh, M.D., and Robert Lyon, M.D., introduce cardiac service for children at CCHMC |
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September 1, 1939 |
Division of Home Health Care begins |
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July 1941 |
Cincinnati Children's physicians physicians Robert Lyon and Louise Rauh, together with social worker Mary Carroll, published a landmark study focusing on how children with heart disease adjusted and adapted to their lives after leaving the hospital. |
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1942 |
A. Ashley Weech becomes third B.K. Rachford Professor of Pediatrics |
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1943 |
The first use of penicillin at Cincinnati Children's |
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January 1944 |
Katharine Dodd, M.D., becomes the first woman physician to hold a full-time position at CCHMC |
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November 1945 |
Ingeborg Syllm, then a pediatric resident, joins in condemning segregation at a meeting of the Southern Medical Association being held in Cincinnati |
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1947 |
Frederic Silverman, M.D., becomes the first full-time chief of Radiology |
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1948 |
The first clinic in pediatric psychiatry was established by Richard E. Wolf, M.D. |
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Louise Flynn, R.N., named director of Nursing |
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1949 |
Hospital budget goes over $1 million |
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1950 |
William Cooper Procter Wing built on the east side of the hospital building |
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1951 |
Leland Clark, James Helmsworth, and Samuel Kaplan develop and perfected the world’s first functional heart-lung machine for extracorporeal circulation |
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1952 |
First open heart surgery performed at Children's Hospital |
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Rainbow Room opens |
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1955 |
Children's Dental Care Foundation created |
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1956 |
Revised constitution and bylaws for the Medical and Dental Staff |
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1957 |
Albert Sabin's live oral polio vaccine was approved by the WHO for worldwide testing |
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Hamilton County Diagnostic Clinic for the Mentally Retarded (later Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders) founded |
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1960 |
Adolescent Clinic for the treatment of mental and psychological problems founded |
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April 24, 1960 |
First Sabin Sunday |