CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY

From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s blood donations to ensure a healthy supply, our purpose is to make the world a better place by bringing life-changing health technologies to the people who need them. That’s our commitment to helping you live your best life.

LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE

We understand that the first step to living your best life is good health. Everything we make is designed to help you do just that. That’s our commitment to building life-changing technologies that keep your heart healthy, nourish your body at every stage of life, help you feel and move better, and bring you information, medicines and breakthroughs to manage your health.

ABBOTT AT A GLANCE

We create breakthrough products – in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals – that help you, your family and your community lead healthier lives, full of unlimited possibilities. Today, 103,000 of us are working to make a lasting impact on health in the more than 160 countries we serve.

DISCOVER OUR HISTORY OF INNOVATION

For more than 130 years, we've put science and innovation to work – to create more possibilities for more people through the power of health. We adapt and respond quickly to changes in the world around us to deliver better solutions to help people live their best lives.

In 1888, physician and drug store proprietor Dr. Wallace C. Abbott began producing accurate, scientifically formulated medications with the goal of providing more effective therapies to patients and the physicians providing their care.

Under the pioneering leadership of Dr. Abbott, our company was among the founders of the scientific practice of pharmacy, expanding its business to meet rising global health needs by championing new areas of medical research. By continually entering new areas—both scientific and geographic—we've established a now long-standing tradition of helping people live healthier lives around the world.

A HISTORY OF NURTURING HUMAN POTENTIAL

Dr. Abbott’s spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and caring lives on in our culture, our business and our contributions to medical science. Read below for historical moments that highlight our pursuit of the extraordinary throughout the years.

    1888: Production of “alkaloidal” medicine granules by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott, a 30-year-old practicing physician, begins in the rear of his People's Drug Store in Chicago. Remedies contain the active ingredients of plants and herbs. First-year total sales reach $2,000.

    1894: Incorporated as the Abbott Alkaloidal Company. Abbott is a medical publisher as well as a manufacturer.

    1907: Expansion outside the United States for the first time with an office in London, England.

    1916: Production of our first synthetic medicine, Chlorazene, a breakthrough antiseptic developed by British chemist Dr. Henry Dakin to treat wounded soldiers in World War I.

    1922: Development of Butyn by scientists Dr. Ernest Volwiler and Dr. Roger Adams, the first in a long line of breakthrough anesthetics to come from our company.

    1929: Initial public offering provides shares for the first time in the year of the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. While the timing seems inauspicious, our stock grows in value from that first day—and approximately 10,000 times over so far.

    1932: Expansion continues even at the height of the Great Depression thanks to our leadership in new fields such as vitamins and intravenous solutions. "Few of the leading industrial organizations of the country," notes Nation's Commerce magazine, "can show a sounder record for the past year than the Abbott Laboratories."

    1935: Introduction of Pentothal, which will be the world’s leading anesthetic for years to come and win our inventors, Dr. Volwiler and Dr. Donalee Tabern, induction into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame.

    1942: Abbott joins a consortium of pharmaceutical makers, at the behest of the U.S. Government, to ramp up production of penicillin for wartime use. Together we increase production more than 20,000%.

    1959: Adoption of our Abbott "A" logo, a classic of industrial design that remains the cornerstone of our visual identity to this day.

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    1964: Acquisition of M&R Dietetics, with its popular baby formula, Similac, makes us a leader in nutrition.

    1972: Introduction of the ABA-100 blood chemistry analyzer as well as Ausria, a breakthrough radioimmunoassay test for detecting serum hepatitis. This marks the beginning of our modern diagnostics business, in which we quickly became a world leader.

    1985: Approval of the first licensed test to identify the HIV virus in blood, helping to secure the safety of the blood supply. This is one of our greatest achievements and the first significant medical victory against what had, until then, seemed an unstoppable threat.

    1998: Introduction of Glucerna, a group of cereals, health shakes and snack bars formulated specifically for diabetics and others with dietary restrictions.

    2002: FDA approval of Humira, the first fully-human monoclonal antibody drug. It will go on to become the world's leading pharmaceutical product.

    2006: Launch of the Xience V drug-eluting stent. It goes on to become the market leader.

    2010: We continue our focus on globalism as we become the largest pharmaceutical company in India, the world's second-largest country by population.

    2013: Beginning of a new era for Abbott, as a more global, consumer-focused company than ever before, we created a new, Fortune 200 corporation, AbbVie, from our former proprietary pharmaceutical business.

    2014: Abbott establishes a strong new expression of its corporate identity with"Life. To The Fullest." The company promotes its identity more vigorously than ever before, advertising to consumer audiences around the world and becoming the sponsor of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a series of the world’s most prominent races.

    2014: With the launch of its cutting-edge continuous glucose monitoring system, FreeStyle Libre, Abbott revolutionizes diabetes care by eliminating the need for routine fingersticks.1

    2016: Abbott launches the first systems in its Alinity series, a family of diagnostics and informatics systems that represent a major leap forward in terms of reliability, cost, capacity, space efficiency, and ease of use. We are creating the future of diagnostic labs.

    2017: In its largest acquisition ever, Abbott acquires St. Jude Medical, adding breakthrough inventions and extensive expertise across the areas of cardiovascular and neuromodulation. Abbott now competes in nearly every area of cardiovascular health and holds the No. 1 or 2 positions in a variety of large, high-growth markets.

    2017: Abbott acquires Alere Inc., making Abbott the leader in point-of-care diagnostic technology filling out its array of diagnostics technologies. Abbott now holds the No. 1 position in rapid testing for cardiometabolic disease, infectious disease and in toxicology.

A PROMISE FOR LIFE: THE STORY OF ABBOTT

You can learn more about our rich history in “A Promise for Life: The Story of Abbott.” Featuring hundreds of historical images and over 400 pages, this comprehensive history draws on materials from our extensive archives, vintage interviews with key Abbott people and information in the public record to create a detailed portrait of our remarkable company and the accomplishments we've achieved. Click here to download a PDF of our e-book.

A FUTURE FULL OF POSSIBILITIES

For more than 130 years, we've adapted to an increasingly complex healthcare environment by keeping our focus where it belongs—on helping people achieve their best possible health, in all stages of life, around the world. And that’s a goal we'll continue to pursue far into the future.

1Fingersticks are required for treatment decisions when you see Check Blood Glucose symbol, when symptoms do not match system readings, when you suspect readings may be inaccurate, or when you experience symptoms that may be due to high or low blood glucose.

Cigna is a global health service company with 95 million customers around the world and more than 40,000 employees worldwide. As your partner in health, we're available for our customers 24/7 with an expansive network built to help them meet their health goals. We're on a mission to improve the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve.

OUR VALUES

Customers: We make experiences with our company easy and reliable in ways that are personal and empathetic. 

Community: We embrace our diverse, individual strengths as one team.

Innovation: We push for a better tomorrow — and hold ourselves accountable.

Collaboration: We partner to build sustainable solutions to increase value for all — our customers, our stakeholders, and our company.

YOUR PARTNER IN HEALTH

For more than 200+ years, we’ve worked in the spirit of true partnership to change lives — keeping you healthy with preventive care, simplifying access to health care, and helping you recover from illness or injury to provide for your families. When it comes to you, our customers and their families, we’re in this together, all the way.

Integrity—a Cigna corporate value

Building a culture of integrity in today's competitive business environment demands high standards in every area of our global operations. Cigna's commitment to healthy corporate governance practices is reflected in our independent Board, comprehensive governance policies and open communications.

Cigna Milestones

Cigna is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security.

For more than 225 years, Cigna and its predecessor companies have been in the insurance field. In 1792, a group of Philadelphia citizens formed the Insurance Company of North America (INA), the first marine insurance company in the United States. In 1865, the Governor of Connecticut signed a special law creating Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (CG). In 1982, Cigna was formed through the combination of INA Corporation and Connecticut General Corporation.

Today, Cigna continues to innovate, expand and grow globally. Our dedication to the people we serve and protect has grown with each milestone in Cigna history.

We are a health care innovation company with a simple and clear purpose: Helping people on their path to better health.

CVS Health - Our Suite of Assets

Our Suite of Assets

CVS Health’s extensive suite of assets positions us to play an important role in solving the cost, quality and access issues in the evolving health care landscape.

Diversity

CVS Health serves millions of people every day. For our company to thrive, it’s important to have a workforce that reflects not only our customers, but also the communities they live in.

Expanding MinuteClinic Care to Veterans Nationwide

Support for our country’s veterans and members of the military is central to the work we do at CVS Health, whether it’s through our Workforce programs or our efforts to connect this population with easily accessible, high-quality care.

Since 2016, through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), CVS Health has provided health care services to more than 4,000 veterans at select MinuteClinic locations.

Now, through the enactment of the VA MISSION Act, we have been able to expand that care to all of our 1,100 MinuteClinic locations nationwide.

“Our participation in the MISSION Act will give deserving veterans across the country greater access to quality health care when and where they need it while ensuring they are still linked into the Veterans Health Administration,” said Sharon Vitti, President of MinuteClinic. “We’re proud to be able to support the VA on such a meaningful and impactful program.”

Care for Veterans through the MISSION Act

Under the MISSION Act, veterans can now access urgent care and walk-in medical services under their VA benefits without pre-authorization. Veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria can receive care at any MinuteClinic location, including treatment for minor illnesses, minor injuries and skin conditions. Following the visit, MinuteClinic is able to make the full record of medical services provided available to the VA with the patient’s consent.

The expansion builds upon our previous pilot programs with the VA, which gave veterans the option to receive care at MinuteClinic locations in Corpus Christi, Texas; Palo Alto and Santa Clarita, California; and Phoenix, Arizona.

Our History of Support for Veterans

Our support of the MISSION Act is one example of the many ways we stand with veterans, active military and their families.

We have several Workforce Initiatives programs dedicated to recruiting, hiring, training and retaining veterans to build a pipeline of workforce talent. Since 2015, CVS Health has hired almost 15,000 people with military experience and more than 5,000 military spouses.

In addition, we provide charitable support to military and veteran-focused organizations, including the National Guard, Operation Reinvent and the USO. And colleagues can connect through the CVS Health Colleague Resource Group BRAVE, which is comprised of nearly 1,400 members with a passion to serve those who have served our country.

We were recently recognized for our efforts to support veterans and military members.

In May, Military Times named CVS Health to its 2019 list of best companies for veterans seeking a civilian job.

And four CVS Health managers were recently honored with 2019 Patriot Awards from the Rhode Island Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (RI ESGR) for their support of three colleagues serving in the National Guard and Reserve.

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We’re in an era of unprecedented complexity in healthcare. Patient care is not where it should be. While many of the organizations delivering the care need to get much healthier, too.

This is why our vision is to improve care in every setting — one product, one partner, one patient at a time. And we’re making this happen every day by touching virtually every aspect of healthcare.

We partner with biopharma companies, care providers, pharmacies, manufacturers, governments and others to deliver the right medicines, medical products and healthcare services to the patients who need them, when they need them — safely and cost-effectively.

United by our ICARE values, our 78,000 employees work together every day to make better care possible for patients around the globe.

Our vision

To improve care in every setting — one product, one partner, one patient at a time.

The difference we make in one minute

McKesson is the central nervous system of health care. At any given moment, in any given minute, we simultaneously execute thousands of critical operations that improve the businesses of our customers and the lives of their patients.

This is the difference we make in one minute. This is the difference we make every minute.

Who We Are

We believe higher-quality care comes when health organizations across settings are truly healthy. We provide the products, technology and resources they need to operate more effectively, lower costs and improve patient health.

Our Businesses

The health care industry depends on our collective distribution and technology solutions to operate more effectively, lower costs and improve patient health.

Distribution Solutions

U.S. Pharmaceutical

Our commitment to delivery excellence, order accuracy and safety enables us to supply branded, generic and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals to more than 40,000 customers. We provide retail chains, independent retail pharmacies, hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks and long-term care providers with supply chain technology, marketing programs, managed care, and repackaging products and services to help them exceed their business goals.

Medical-Surgical

We provide a comprehensive range of medical-surgical supplies and equipment to physicians' offices, post-acute care agencies and surgery centers. From bandages to exam tables, our catalog includes more than 150,000 national brand products along with our own line of high-quality products.

Specialty Health

We unite independent providers with manufacturers and payers, strengthening the business foundations of specialty care, delivering end-to-end efficiencies and clinical excellence.

Pharmacy Technology

Our technology and connectivity businesses – RelayHealth Pharmacy Solutions, Macro Helix, McKesson High Volume Solutions, McKesson Pharmacy Systems and Supplylogix – provide solutions to pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, health systems, clinics and payers across the healthcare industry. As pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, providers and payers continue to evolve within this dynamic environment, our technology and connectivity solutions help them stay competitive, compliant and focused on healthy patient outcomes.

McKesson Canada

We partner with the Canadian health care industry to provide better, safer care by delivering vital medicines, supplies and information technologies. For more than 100 years, our solutions have helped pharmacies, manufacturers, hospitals and other health care institutions improve the quality and safety of care they provide to millions of patients every single day.

McKesson Europe

McKesson Europe, owned by McKesson Corporation, is a pharmaceutical wholesale and retail pharmacy leader focused on bringing better health to people across Europe. Every day, the company’s 39,000 employees serve more than two million patients and consumers across 8,100 owned and banner retail pharmacies. Additionally, through its 117 pharmaceutical distribution centers, the company delivers needed medicines and supplies to more than 55,000 pharmacies and hospitals throughout Europe.

    Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission—you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe.

Our Shared Principles:

Guiding us in our mission for better health

At McKesson, the way we do business is just as important as the business itself. Our employees all understand the responsibility we bear as we work together toward our common goal: to advance the health care system for better health for all.

That’s why we look toward our ICARE shared principles as a unifying set of values to guide us in our mission. Our company-wide values are the foundation of McKesson’s reputation as a trusted organization that goes the extra mile to advance our customers’ success.

Learn what our ICARE shared principles mean to us.

Integrity

McKesson employees make decisions, both big and small, with a focus on what is ethically right. Above all, we are committed to the greater good—for our company, our customers and the health care industry.

Customer-First

Our commitment to our customers sets us apart. We hear time and again from our customers that they choose McKesson for our follow-through and customer-focused service. Our customers are at the center of everything we do, and our success comes from their success. They benefit from McKesson’s customized approach to their business and our ability to help them stay ahead of the changing health care landscape.

Accountability

We make personal commitments—to our customers, vendors, our colleagues. We hold ourselves accountable for keeping those promises. We take individual responsibility for the decisions we make to get results for our customers. We build trust with our customers by delivering on our promises. We all own accountability for McKesson.

Respect

Our people treat each other, our customers and our vendors with dignity, consideration, open-mindedness and respect. By valuing diverse styles and skills, recognizing each individual’s contribution, and staying open to each other’s perspectives, McKesson cultivates an environment of innovation and collaboration—which pays off in the way we solve problems for our customers.

Excellence

Our journey to excellence never ends—we always aim higher for our customers and partners. We take action with success in mind and focus on results, constantly finding new ways to innovate and improve, and we rigorously measure our progress. When customers choose McKesson, they’re choosing an industry leader who will work tirelessly to achieve excellence in quality, safety and efficiency—for the better health of our customers and the entire health care industry.

Our History

Spanning the Centuries for Better Health

McKesson took roots in the earliest days of the United States—when organized health care in America was just taking shape. Over the past 180+ years we have played a fundamental role in helping to shape the design and direction of health care: helping to set standards for the health care supply chain and playing a large role in our industry’s technology revolution.

    1830s

    Early Pioneers

    1833: Founded by John McKesson and Charles Olcott in New York City to import and sell therapeutic drugs and chemicals wholesale.

    1853: Renamed McKesson & Robbins, after a new partner, Daniel Robbins. Distributing pharmaceutical products by covered wagon to 17 states and territories from Vermont to California.

    1855: Became one of the first wholesale firms to manufacture drugs. The company’s fluid extracts, tinctures, pills and tablets won medals for its pioneering work.

    1900s–1980s

    Expanding Horizons

    1900s: Persuaded several wholesalers to its subsidiaries, forming a national drug wholesaling company and becoming the leading distributor of pharmaceutical drug products.

    1929: Achieved unprecedented sales million and sustains steady growth despite the Great Depression.

    1960s: Merged with Foremost Dairies to form Foremost-McKesson Inc. becoming the largest U.S. distributor of pharmaceutical drugs, alcoholic beverages and chemicals.

    1980s–1990s

    1990's: Decided to focus more on health care by divesting unrelated businesses and acquired General Medical, the largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies.

    1993: Pioneered Acumax™, a proprietary barcode warehouse-management solution, and received the Computerworld Smithsonian Award for information technology innovation.

    1998: Acquired HBO & Company and operated for a time as McKesson HBOC — the world’s largest health care services company.

    2000s–Today

    McKesson Today

    2010: Acquired US Oncology, becoming the second-largest specialty company.

    2013: Announced CommonWell Health Alliance™, a collaborative effort among health IT suppliers that supports universal access to health care data through interoperability.

    2014: Acquired Celesio to become a global health care leader moving its ranking to 11th on the FORTUNE 500 with more than $179 billion in annual revenue.

As the academic medical center and University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center is nationally recognized for clinical excellence—breaking new ground in research, training the next generation of healthcare leaders, and delivering science-driven, patient-centered care.

Montefiore is ranked among the top hospitals nationally and regionally by U.S. News & World Report. For more than 100 years we have been innovating new treatments, new procedures and new approaches to patient care, producing stellar outcomes and raising the bar for medical centers in the region and around the world. As we build on this momentum, we continue to advance the practice of medicine and set the standard for excellence.

Enduring Mission and Distinguished History

The mission of Montefiore is to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. 

From its beginning in 1884, as a facility for the care of patients with tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses, to the new millennium, Montefiore has been at the forefront of patient care, research and education and steadfast commitment to its community.

Our Services

We provide coordinated, compassionate and leading-edge care designed to reach people when and where they need it most. Through highly integrated teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, mental health professionals and other caregivers, we have created an innovative, seamless system of care focused around the patient.

Centers of Excellence

At the intersection of Einstein science and Montefiore medicine is our commitment to scientific inquiry. This commitment has resulted in the creation of the Montefiore-Einstein Centers of Excellence in cancer care, cardiovascular services, transplantation and children’s health, where nationally recognized investigators and multidisciplinary clinical teams collaborate to develop and deliver advanced, innovative care.

Advanced Specialty and Surgical Care

We offer advanced, multidisciplinary care across specialties, delivering one standard of excellence for all. Our interventions are designed to help patients understand and manage their illness, advocate for their health, access the right treatments and receive the vital social support they need to flourish. On multiple fronts, Montefiore is developing more effective and less invasive approaches to complex problems from procedures to repair diseased hearts, protocols to treat complex cancers and medical devices designed to meet the needs of growing children.

Primary Care

With nearly 50 primary care locations throughout the New York metropolitan area, we are focusing on accessible, patient-centered primary and preventive care provided by leading physicians in the areas of family and internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and a team of experts in nursing, health education, nutrition and pharmacy.

Providing Care Without Walls

Montefiore combines its deep commitment to the community with nationally-renowned expertise to reach people in locations easiest for them. Through Montefiore’s School Health Program (MSHP), Primary Care at Home programs, mobile medical and dental health vans and health education initiatives, Montefiore provides primary care services in non-traditional settings.

Through the formation of highly integrated teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, mental health professionals, care managers and other caregivers, we provide care around the patient, when and where they need it.

Research and Education

Montefiore's partnership with Einstein advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients. Together, the two institutions are among 38 academic medical centers nationwide to be awarded a prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) by the National Institutes of Health.

The second-largest medical residency program in the country, with 1,251 residents and fellows across 89 programs, Montefiore provides the doctors of tomorrow a unique opportunity for education and training in one of the most diverse urban areas in the country — one where the population is global, the disease burden is high, and the need for quality care is great.

The partnership is further strengthened by the dual appointments of faculty and physicians across both organizations—enhancing synergies and collaborations for research, teaching and patient care.

Comprehensive Care Management

Since 1996, Montefiore has developed advanced models of care management to help patients, especially those with chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart failure and mental illness, achieve better health and improved wellbeing in a cost effective way. Montefiore goes beyond fragmented fee-for-service payments, assuming total responsibility for the quality and costs of care for some of our sickest patients.

Through CMO, Montefiore Care Management, we use a global prepayment or similar strategies to manage care for 200,000 individuals over the continuum, including hospital care, rehabilitation, outpatient care, professional services, home care, mental health counseling, community-based services, remote patient monitoring and many other programs.

Our leadership in coordinating care across multiple settings has earned us federal recognition from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization. Montefiore's ACO is one of only 32 organizations in the nation, as well as the only one in New York State, to operate under this new model of providing Medicare beneficiaries with higher quality care, while reducing expenditures through enhanced care coordination.

Mission, Vision and Values

Montefiore Medical Center’s mission, vision and values serve as our guide for pursuing clinical excellence—breaking new ground in research, training the next generation of healthcare leaders, and delivering science-driven, patient-centered care.

Mission

To heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve.

Montefiore builds upon our rich history of medical innovation and community service to improve the lives of those in our care. Our mission is exemplified in our exceptional, compassionate care and dedication to improve the well-being of those we serve.

Vision

To be a premier academic medical center that transforms health and enriches lives.

Through our enduring partnership with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, we combine clinical care with research to deliver the most current treatments available to our patients. Together, with state-of-the-art treatment and facilities and the highest ethical standards, we are challenging the limits of medicine.

Values

Our values define our philosophy of care.

They shape our actions and motivate and inspire us to pursue excellence and achieve the goals we have set forth for the future. Our values include:

Humanity: Our physicians, nurses and other clinical and support staff serve with extraordinary care and compassion. These attributes are rooted in a rich history that began more than 125 years ago when Montefiore was established to care for patients with debilitating and chronic illnesses. We see our patients as people first, with a set of values, beliefs and experiences that shape their needs and our care.

Innovation: Our innovative delivery system, research endeavors and use of technology to improve how care is provided are fundamental to our success. Together, Montefiore and Einstein advance clinical and translational research to facilitate the transformation of new discoveries into treatments and therapies that benefit our patients. We are never satisfied with the status quo and are always challenging ourselves to elevate to a new level of patient care.

Teamwork: At Montefiore, our collaborative approach ensures a culture of participation, learning and respect. We build on the knowledge and specialized expertise of all disciplines, which contribute vital insights and new perspectives in pursuit of a common goal. By bringing together multidisciplinary teams and involving patients and their families throughout the treatment process, we improve the quality of patient care, enhance patient safety and provide the broadest range of expertise possible.

Diversity: We embrace our diverse workforce and community, knowing that it is an intrinsic part of who we are. Montefiore is proud of its heritage, serving residents of the Bronx, and the surrounding New York metropolitan area, as well as patients from across the nation and around the globe. Different backgrounds bring new contributions to patient care and medical advances. We seek to recruit and retain candidates with a breadth of experiences and backgrounds.

Equity: Our actions are the result of a deep belief in fairness to those we serve. We are committed to offering access to vital programs and exceptional care to all patients regardless of social or economic status, ethnicity, creed, gender, and sexual preference. Montefiore also advocates for government policies that ensure equitable access to all care – both primary and advanced specialty care.

History and Milestones

From its founding in 1884 by Jewish philanthropists as a care facility for patients with chronic illnesses to its status today as one of the largest healthcare systems in the nation, Montefiore Medical Center has been at the forefront—translating scientific breakthroughs into diagnostics and treatments that save lives, educating the next generation of compassionate healthcare professionals, and combining our deep commitment to the community with nationally-renowned expertise.

A look at our history reveals traditions set in our earliest days that still guide our mission today.

1884-1920sMontefiore Home seal

The Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids was founded in 1884 by Jewish philanthropists who wanted to do something for chronically ill people whom other hospitals of the day would not help. Montefiore quickly expanded and began an age of delivery system innovation, medical education and scientific research that it continues today as a premier academic medical center.

It was in 1890 that Montefiore was among the first to test tuberculin for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. In 1901, asthma patients at Montefiore were treated with adrenalin chloride—one of the earliest clinical uses of adrenalin.

Groundbreaking milestones continued with the development of the cardiotachometer in the 1920s, an innovative instrument to measure the heart’s beat. The device is now on display in the Smithsonian Museum. Montefiore would also build the foundations of its commitment to innovative health care when, in 1905, it established one of the nation’s first hospital-based departments of social work to meet the psychosocial and home-care needs of patients and their families. In 1912, Montefiore expanded its services and built a new hospital in the Bronx. Thus began a new era for Montefiore as it began partnering with the borough to create a world-class healthcare model accessible to anyone in need. Continuing to blaze trails, the first woman joined Montefiore's house staff in 1916.

1930-1940s

doctors at MontefioreDuring the 1930s, African-American medical residents were accepted at Montefiore at a time when such integration was rare. The following decade, in 1945, the first headache unit and the nation’s first hospital-based Department of Home Health Care were both established. Our Montefiore Medical Group practice was established in 1948 to service one of the nation’s first HMOs and has since expanded to more than 20 locations throughout the New York metropolitan area.

1950-1970s

Physicians at Montefiore continued to achieve medical breakthroughs when they developed a heart-lung machine used in a series of operations to correct congenital heart defects in children while researchers developed a transvenous cardiac pacemaker in 1958.

Some of our biggest breakthroughs have come as a result of a unique pairing that began in 1963, when Montefiore began to serve as the teaching hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, providing clinical education for medical students and residents.

Montefiore continued to mark milestones, including the creation of Montefiore’s Children’s Kidney Center in 1966, one of the world’s first pediatric renal programs.

And as Montefiore continued to evolve, so did our patient care. A Montefiore physician invented the system of cardiac pacemaker monitoring by telephone, and in 1972, one of the nation’s first pediatric kidney transplants was performed at the medical facility

In addition to advances in medical care, Montefiore also made community care a priority. Our Bronx community represents one of the most economically-chsocial services in Montefiore's historyallenged urban counties in the nation. Inspired by those we serve, Montefiore created the nation’s first hospital-based Department of Social Medicine in 1950.

Montefiore took the idea of social medicine one step further in July 1966 when it created, through $1.9 million in federal funding, the Dr. Martin Luther King Health Center. The funding helped bring a level of comprehensive health care to the South Bronx community that had been relatively non-existent for almost 20 years, involving physicians working directly in the community to meet the local needs of its predominantly Black and Hispanic population. Knowledge of the people, buildings and streets helped physicians get a better understanding of the health problems affecting the local communities they served.

In 1970, the medical center established one of the first residencies in social medicine. At this time, the community-based Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was launched (the program remains a national model to this day) and, for the next two decades, Montefiore began providing care for prisoners at New York City’s Rikers Island Detention Center.

Montefiore also became a model for how other medical centers treated their healthcare workers when, in 1959, it became the first hospital to recognize a hospital workers union, with a standalone 1199 SEIU.

1980s

During the 1980s, Montefiore launched an early response to the emerging AIDS epidemic—earning designation as one of the first comprehensive AIDS Centers in New York State—and established the Child Protection Center, the first center in New York dedicated to the evaluation, treatment, follow-up and prevention of child abuse. In 1981, the Mosholu Preservation Corporation was established as a hospital-sponsored community development and renewal initiative, a powerful antidote to widespread housing deterioration and abandonment.

1990s

The 1990s were a time of clinical advancements at the medical center. In 1991 Montefiore was the first to use Taxol, developed by researchers at our partner institution, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, for the successful treatment of throat cancer.

The following year, Montefiore surgeons were the first in the U.S. to perform a minimally invasive repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. As the millennium came to a close, the medical center performed the first carotid stenting using a device to protect patients from stroke and received designation to perform heart transplant surgery.

emergency departmentThe 1990s also saw the integration of a delivery network between Moses and Jack D. Weiler hospitals to create one true Montefiore. The latter of the two hospitals would open a new, innovative emergency room in 1998.

The New York Children’s Health Fund would collaborate with both Montefiore and Einstein during this time period, establishing the South Bronx Health Center in 1993 serve underserved children and families in the community. The medical center also demonstrated its global reach through an affiliation with the Rabin Medical Center in Israel that saw the two facilities exchange health professionals and collaborate on research. Montefiore would also join with other New York medical centers to form the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, or BRANY, a clinical research consortium.

The 1990s also saw the creation of the Montefiore Integrated Provider Association (MIPA), providing innovative solutions to the challenges of managed care through contracting arrangements, provider and member services, and its investment in technology and support systems.

Putting patients first, in 1995, we created the Care Management Company to provide medical care coordination and interventions for patient populations, laying the foundation for patient-centered care that focuses on improving clinical quality, enhancing patient experience and reducing healthcare costs.

The following year, Montefiore was one of the first hospitals to utilize Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), a technology designed to help avoid medical errors.

2000 to the Present

In 2001, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) opened in a leading-edge facility. CHAM would be ranked as one of “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” in U.S. News & World Report’s annual listing just a few years later.

Montefiore continued to make national headlines in 2004, when it performed the first successful operation to separate twins joined at the tops of their heads.

On the 10th anniversary of Montefiore’s heart transplant designation, in 2009, the first pediatric heart transplant in the Bronx was successfully performed at CHAM. The following year, a rare dual heart and liver transplant was performed by Montefiore’s heart and liver transplant teams.

Toward the end of the decade, in 2008, Montefiore completed its acquisition of Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center and integrated the hospital as part of our Wakefield Campus.

Montefiore also reached milestones in patient care, becoming the nation’s first medical center to develop a Code of Organizational Ethics in 2001, while also leading the development of BronxRHIO, a Bronx-wide consortium to share patient health information.

artificial heartIn 2011, advances in treatment included a surgical team from the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care receiving certification training for implanting the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart, a replacement heart implanted in patients at risk of imminent death from heart failure as a bridge to human heart transplant. Montefiore’s is one of only two programs in the New York metropolitan area certified to implant this lifesaving device. And Montefiore became the first medical center in the Northeast to provide three types of regional chemotherapy treatments to cancer patients that spare healthy tissue while targeting cancer with potent therapy.

Throughout the last few years, Montefiore has also seen advances in technology, including a state-of-the-art GetWell Network at CHAM that allows physicians to send content to a 42-inch flat screen monitor in every young patient’s room. CHAM patients can also use the network to send email, surf the Internet, watch videos and play games. And Montefiore was among the first medical centers in the country to employ the use of iPads in clinical practice.

Also in 2011, our leadership and more than 15 years of experience in coordinating care across multiple settings to improve the health of patients and populations earned us federal recognition from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization. Through the formation of highly integrated teams of health professionals, we manage care around the patient—focusing on communication, coordination, engagement and prevention to provide higher quality care while reducing costs.

Today, Montefiore is one of the first health care providers in New York State to demonstrate the “Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Record (EMR)” technology, harnessing the power of information technology to deliver higher quality healthcare and continuing to advance the health of the communities we serve.

Montefiore Health System: Expansion

Expansion began in late 2013 when we entered Westchester County by opening Montefiore New Rochelle, Montefiore Mount Vernon, Schaffer Extended Care Center and Montefiore School of Nursing on the former site of Sound Shore Health System. It was a transformative moment, like the acquisition of Westchester Square Medical Center in the Bronx, which created a first of its kind full-service Emergency Department earlier in the same year.

We continued to grow in 2014, by signing a comprehensive affiliation agreement with White Plains Hospital, which brought the hospital into our Health System where it now serves as the tertiary hub of Montefiore's Westchester network.

In 2015, we welcomed Nyack Hospital—a leading community hospital in Rockland County, New York—to MHS. Later in the same year, in a series of pivotal moments, our Health System:

    Entered into a clinical affiliation agreement with the Yonkers New York-based Saint Joseph's Medical Center that also includes the St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester Division, one of NY State's most highly regarded inpatient and ambulatory behavioral health providers.

    Announced a strategic partnership with White Plains' Burke Rehabilitation Hospital.

    Welcomed the Hudson Valley-based St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital into our Health System in a partnership that will strengthen delivery of healthcare locally and enhance access to exceptional specialty care for the region's residents.

    Assumed operational authority and responsibility for Albert Einstein College of Medicine in an agreement that came nearly half a century after our landmark affiliation was forged to strengthen excellence in science, education and clinical care.

Today, we're proud of what our institution has and will become in the years ahead.

Montefiore Health System (MHS) is one of the nation's largest, consisting of eleven hospitals; a primary and specialty care network of more than 180 locations across Westchester County, the lower Hudson Valley and the Bronx; an extended care facility; the Montefiore School of Nursing, and our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

As MHS, we are building upon a 125-year history, while at the same time remaining true to our mission and values and forging a new era of transformative medicine.

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