HISTORY

Hospital San José Tec de Monterrey was founded in 1969 by Mr. Ignacio A. Santos and his wife, Mrs. Consuelo De la Garza Evia as a Non–for–Profit Medical Institute for Health Excellence.  In 1978, it was granted as a donation to the Tecnológico de Monterrey through the Santos y De la Garza Evia Foundation.  Since then, it has evolved into a Medical Center of Specialties with Five Centers of Excellence (Cardiology, Oncology, Neuroscience, Organ Transplant and Liver Disease). It is nowadays considered one of the most prestigious private and academic hospitals in Latin America, since it complies and exceeds the strictest hygiene and safety standards currently employed worldwide.

Remarkable achievements:

» Mexico

  • First private hospital to combine Emergency, Surgery and Recovery services and first to offer Periodic Medical Evaluation and Early Cancer Detection programs (1973).
  • First private hospital to perform a kidney transplant (1979).
  • First coronary by-pass in a private hospital (1975).
  • Inauguration of the first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a private hospital (1980).
  • First private hospital to have a cardiovascular surgery program (1981).
  • Inauguration of the most advanced coronary angiograph equipment in a private hospital (1989).
  • First private hospital to perform a lung transplant (1994).
  • First liver transplant in a private hospital, the only one authorized by the Mexican Secretary of Health (1999).
  • First successful artificial hepatic support treatment with MARS (2003).
  • Inauguration of the most highly equipped cath lab rooms for the diagnosis and interventionist treatment of heart, brain, and peripheral circulation artery diseases (2006).

» Latin America

  • First use of a laser beam in ocular surgery (1986).
  • Inauguration of the greatest capacity Nuclear Magnetic Resonance machine (1993).
  • First private hospital to use Healthcare SAP information technology to support its operations (2003).
  • First totally robotic surgery in the country performed with Da Vinci, the second robot surgeon in Latin America (2006).
  • First hospital to have dual source computed tomography, which leads to safe and accurate heart diagnoses (2007).