Centennial timeline: 1990s

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1990

February 12 - Board votes to reverse La Sierra College and Loma Linda University 23-year consolidation.

March 7 - LLU Riverside Trustees vote to rename the campus "La Sierra University."

May 17 - Board of Trustees merge the School of Public Health and the department of preventive medicine.

June 3 - Behavioral Medicine Center holds open house.

August 25 - Constituency votes to separate Loma Linda and Riverside campuses.

September 20 - Board of Trustees votes to formally recognize and designate LLU as a health sciences university.

October 18 - Department of pathology and laboratory medicine becomes first academic department of SM to be sufficiently endowed to sustain its teaching functions with earnings from endowment assets.

October 23 - First patient receives treatment at Proton Treatment Center.

1991

January 18 - BMC becomes operational.

June 26 - First-in-the-world use of rotating gantry for proton therapy.

September 29 - "Just For Seniors" program launched.

1992

March 9 - Newly remodeled and refurbished TotalCare Birth Center at LLUMC is reopened.

June 3 - Groundbreaking services are held for the Ronald McDonald House.

July 9 - LLUMC celebrates its 25th anniversary.

July 20 - Children's Hospital Foundation established.

December 8 - Drayson Center groundbreaking is held.

1993

January 16 - First kidney/pancreas transplant is performed at LLUMC.

August 20 - The first local liver transplant is performed at LLUMC.

November 10 - Children's Hospital holds grand opening ceremonies.

1994

February 15 - Groundbreaking is held for Rehabilitation Institute.

May 9 - Grand opening held for Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.

November 4 - First artificial heart is implanted at LLUMC.

December 1 - Memorandum of agreement signed between MC and NASA to collaborate on proton research projects.

1995

January 11 - Dedication and grand opening held for Drayson Center.

May 15 - Center for Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy officially opens.

July 31 - Open house is held for LLUMC Adult Day Care Center.

October 14 - Unveiling ceremonies for bronze Good Samaritan are held.

October 16 - Grand opening ceremonies for SAC Norton are held.

December 1 - LLU&MC launches combined web site.

1996

April 13 - Transplantation Institute performed its 50th liver transplant.

May 30 - Roderick conjoined twins are separated.

June 29 - First bone-marrow transplant is performed at LLUMC.

July 16 - Ricketts Research Library and Learning Center is dedicated.

September 26 - Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are held for the Judefind House.

October 30 - Ceremonies are held honoring United States Congressman Jerry Lewis for his longtime support.

November 29 - Baby Juan Santiago receives skin transplant, a first at LLUMC.

1997

February 17 - Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness is established.

March 1 - Wong Kerlee International Conference Center opens.

March 2 - Opening ceremonies are held for the LLU Coleman Pavilion.

March 27 - Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center entity is created.

March 30 - Chan Shun Pavilion Cancer Institute named.

September 11 - Grand opening of Ronald McDonald House is held.

October 20-24 - First Seventh-day Adventist International Nursing Conference is held.

November 16 - Center for Joint Replacement hosts grand opening.

December 11 - Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are held for the Assistive Technology Assessment Center.

1998

February 3 - Groundbreaking ceremony is held for Geoscience Research Institute.

February 6 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the School of Dentistry expansion.

March 17 - Opening ceremonies are held for the A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation Activity Room.

May 20 - MC holds open house for children's outpatient program.

July 27 - LLUMC is recognized as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News and World Report.

August 5 - Stamp honoring organ donations is unveiled at LLUMC.

1999

February 4 - 100th liver transplant is performed at LLUMC.

May 26 - First stem-cell transplant is performed at LLUMC.

September 14 - "Big Hearts for Little Hearts" is formed.

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