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Appendices: Timeline
The board of trustees initiates a $600,000 building campaign. 1960 Presbyterian starts an inhalation therapy department, adds a serology department to the laboratory, and remodels Old Main for a geriatric unit. 1961 Presbyterian opens the new B Tower building, adding 120 beds to the Central Avenue campus. 1965 Presbyterian announces the addition of twenty-four beds in the Maytag Building. 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs legislation establishing Medicare. 1967 George Savage, prominent Albuquerque real estate and insurance investor, replaces Cale Carson as chair of the Presbyterian board of trustees. 1968 The Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation is established. 1969 Dick Olsen is appointed administrator of Anna Kaseman Hospital to supervise the construction; Dick Barr succeeds Ray Woodham as Presbyterian Hospital administrator. Woodham remains president and chief executive officer of the hospital system. 1970 The Anna Kaseman Hospital opens on Albuquerque’s northeast side, and the Central Avenue campus of Presbyterian opens its first cardiac laboratory. 1971 Presbyterian branches outside the Albuquerque market for the first time when it acquires the Belen Hospital. 1972 The Presbyterian Synods of New Mexico and Arizona merge, and Presbyterian Hospital amends its bylaws to provide for
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fifteen members on the board of trustees. Presbyterian and St. Joseph’s form Cooperative Health Services (CHS), which provides a health insurance called Mastercare. 1973 The Presbyterian Professional Building opens, and CHS purchases Albuquerque Ambulance Service. 1978 During the 1970s, Presbyterian adds to its hospital network and has operations in Belen, Ruidoso, Artesia, Clovis, Socorro, Gallup, Española, and Tucumcari. In the early 1980s, Presbyterian will add operations in Lovington, Raton, and Springer. 1981 Presbyterian is awarded a state Certificate of Need to build the 120-bed Northside, which opens in 1985. PHC changes it name to Southwest Community Health Services (SCHS); Dick Barr is named president of SCHS and Presbyterian Hospital. Mastercare is discontinued. Presbyterian evaluates hospital information systems for patient registration, order entry, results, ancillary communication, and nurse charting. 1982 Presbyterian selects Technicon Data Systems (TDS) as the new computerized hospitalization information system called PACIS (Patient Care Information System). 1983 Presbyterian opens its first three urgent care centers in Albuquerque. The PACIS name is patented for Presbyterian use only. Presbyterian Hospital begins using the PACIS system, becoming the first hospital in New Mexico to be computerized. Transcription is autometed using the new WANG system. 1984 Presbyterian and St. Joseph form Cooperative Health Care (CHC) to reenter the health plan market. Mrs. Van dies in Albuquerque in her sixty-third year of service to Presbyterian. 1985 CHC launches a health maintenance organization (HMO) called Health Plus of New Mexico. PACIS is implemented at Kaseman Hospital.
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