Dallas Regional Medical Center History
Dallas Regional Medical Center originally opened in 1964 as Mesquite Memorial Hospital. The hospital had 27 beds, 5 bassinets, 1 operating room, 1 delivery room, an Emergency Room and 7 physicians on staff. The hospital was expanded in 1975, purchased by Charter Medical Corporation in 1976 and renamed Charter Suburban Hospital. The campus continued to grow through the 1980's with the purchase of a three-story Medical Office Building (MOB). In 1990, the hospital underwent another ownership and name change and Paracelsus Healthcare Corporation, later known as Clarent Hospital Corporation, renamed the hospital Medical Center of Mesquite.
A full-service Heart Center was established in 1991. The Heart Center included a cardiac cath lab, open-heart surgery, cardiac rehabilitation, a centralized outpatient diagnostic and surgery area and a new Emergency Department. Since this time, a second cardiac cath lab has opened and nuclear medicine/special procedures have continued to grow.
The hospital campus expanded in 1994 with the acquisition of commercial property located to the south of the MOB. This property today contains both hospital office space and physician office practices. In 1996, a three-story patient tower was constructed and currently contains a 14-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit on the 1st floor, a 10-bed Orthopedic Unit and Total Joint Center on the 2nd floor, and shelled space for the future Cardiac Care Unit on the 3rd floor. In 1998, a parking lot behind the MOB was constructed allowing for an additional 100 parking spaces. And in 2000, the hospital purchased 1 acre of land north of the Emergency Department and expanded the Emergency Department into the current 23 bed unit, with eight Fast Track bays.