Post-war America brought further expansion needs at Millard Fillmore Hospital. Several adjacent houses to our Gates Circle Facility were razed to accommodate this growth in 1947. In the 1950s as Buffalo continued its economic surge, the hospital continued to stretch its walls. The Gift Shop expanded with gift selections now including books, magazines, cards and jewelry. In 1955, construction equipment again rumbled around the site as Gates Circle Hospital went far beyond its original four-story facility.
Medical advancements are also a hallmark of our heritage.
Perhaps the most significant was the first successful pacemaker implant in the United States, performed at MFH in 1963 by Andrew Gage, M.D. with Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch's wondrous life-preserving invention. Lead by its director, William R. Kinkel M.D., the Dent Institute has become a world-renowned facility in neurologic research and treatment.