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A Century Of Miracles
The new Miami City Hospital opens with 13 beds and a handful of employees.
The Miami Training School for Nurses opens.
The Miami City Commission renames the hospital in honor of Dr. James M. Jackson, a prominent surgeon and first president.
In the wake of "The Great Miami Hurricane," Jackson cares for more than
700 of the city's injured.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak are taken to Jackson after an assassination attempt on the President-elect.
Florida's first tumor clinic opens at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Jackson helps fight a severe polio epidemic with 95 cases reported in Miami.
The University of Miami School of Medicine becomes the first medical school in Florida and designates Jackson Memorial Hospital as the school's teaching hospital.
Dr. Robert S. Litwak performs the first open-heart surgery in Florida at Jackson.
Jackson provides medical care to Cuban refugees.
Nearly 38,000 refugees were treated by 1966.
Jackson treats burn patients with an innovative silver nitrate solution after the cruise ship SS Yarmouth Castle catches fire.
Plans are unveiled for the development of a 50-acre medical district with Jackson as its nucleus.