A host of programs and procedures earned accreditation and approval during this period, and BMC launched a number of important community-based initiatives. In 1995, Baptist Medical Center officially became part of INTEGRIS Health Inc., a system of 14 hospitals across Oklahoma, and its name changed to INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center.
Under Stan Hupfeld’s leadership, a new era of growth began. Baptist Medical Center became known as the “heart hub” of Oklahoma, the first medical center in Oklahoma and the only non-teaching hospital in the nation to receive Medicare approval for its transplant program.
Another BMC Center of Excellence opened in 1989: the Sleep Diagnostic and Research Center, now known as the M.J. and S. Elizabeth Schwartz Sleep Disorders Center, treating people with sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Four new floors topped the East Tower, and the emergency department received numerous updates, improving its efficiency.
Outside the medical center, Children’s World changed its name to Children’s Place and moved to a new 13,000-square-foot building as the result of a $1.2 million donation from the Volunteer Auxiliary. It quickly earned the state’s highest rating for daycare centers. Meanwhile, women benefited from enhanced care and facilities when the Baptist Women’s Health Center opened, offering a full range of gynecological, obstetric and breast care.
Project 2000, later renamed Positive Directions, provided mentoring for at-risk elementary school students, beginning in 1992. Children whose parent or sibling died found help through Calm Waters, an outpatient counseling program, which has assisted more than 15,000 young people since its founding.
Continuing its history of expansion and innovative enhancements, officials penned a $21 million plan for 10 new operating rooms, a new hyperbaric area at the Burn Center, a 700-car parking garage and an eight-story medical office building along with renovations of all surgical suites, expansion of the surgical recovery area and more ambulatory surgery space.
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- Dr. Scott Newton of the Baptist Care Center discusses a treatment plan with a patient in 1989.
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- The strategic location of Baptist Medical Center gave emergency room nurses many opportunities to prove their fast, efficient care to multiple trauma patients.
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- Stan Hupfeld congratulates mentors in the Positive Directions program (from left: Clay Rivers, Marvin King, Hupfeld, Ed Hamilton, Kenneth Peoples).
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- Harold Stansberry honored in 1995 (from left: Hupfeld, Stansberry, Frank McPherson)
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- Buttons have been used through the years to promote new themes and promotional events.
