It has room for 60 patients. The Nemours Research Laboratories open. The institute starts scoliosis screening for local schoolchildren. Dr. G. Dean MacEwen succeeds Shands as medical director. A new outpatient clinic and more research laboratories are added.
Orthopedic residents begin screening infants for hip dysplasia in local hospitals.
The hospital breaks ground for a new hospital. The Nemours Foundation and institute sign an academic affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. William Norwood, a world-renowned cardiac surgeon, joins the staff. Dr. Michael Trigg agrees to move from the University of Iowa to develop the hospital's bone-marrow transplant program. He performs the first transplant in July.