1872.3.9 Dr. Mackay arrived at Tamshui and began treating patients on June 1.

1880 The first western medical institution in Northern Taiwan, the Mackay Clinic, was set up by Dr. Mackay at Tamshui.

1884.8.5 French warships fired upon Tamshui in a war with the Ching Dynasty. Mackay Clinic helped provide emergency medical care for the wounded, which might be considered as the first kind of Red Cross endeavor in Taiwan.

1901.6.2 Dr. Mackay died at Tamshui and the Mackay Clinic was closed.

1905 Dr. J. Y. Ferguson of the Canadian Presbyterian Church came to Taiwan. Mackay Clinic was reopened the next year.

1911 Dr. Ferguson suggested that the Clinic be moved from Tamshui to Taipei and be renamed the Mackay Memorial Hospital (M.M.H.) to honor Dr. Mackay.

1912.12.26 M.M.H. held its opening ceremony in Taipei.

1912 Miss Isabel Elliot was commissioned by the Canadian Presbyterian Church to Taiwan and founded the Nursing School. Most of the nurses in northern Taiwan at that time received their training here.

1918.6 During World War I, M.M.H. closed for six years.

1923 Dr . Gushue Taylor was sent by the Canadian Presbyterian Church to Taiwan.

1924 Dr. Taylor started providing free medical treatment to patients with leprosy from around the island.

1925.1.1 Mackay Memorial Hospital resumed its operation under the guidance of Dr. Taylor.

1934.4.30 Dr. Taylor established the Happy Mountain Leprosarium.

1940 The Canadian Presbyterian Church transferred ownership of M.M.H. to the Northern Taiwan Presbyterian Church.A Hospital Management Board was immediately formed, and Elder Chin-Ting Cheng was appointed the first chairman. Later, Dr. Da-Jwang Li was appointed by the Board to be the first superintendent of the hospital.

1943.10.25 The Japanese Governor’s Office of Taiwan arbitrarily conscripted the hospital. M.M.H. was renamed the Japanese Brotherhood Hospital and a Japanese superintendent was appointed. This situation lasted for two and a half years until the restoration of Taiwan to China at the end of WWII.

1945.3.16 An air raid by the American Air Force destroyed parts of the hospital building and dormitory. Two physicians and several employees and nurses were killed.

1946 The synod of the Northern Taiwan Presbyterian Church resumed control of M.M.H. and set up a new unit called the Bureau of Social Work to manage the hospital.

1948 The Management Board of M.M.H. was reestablished to be in charge of the hospital. This board was renamed the Board of Directors in 1958, the designation that is still used.

1949 A reorganized Nurses Training Class graduated its first five students.

1956 M.M.H. established the Social Service Department, which sent traveling medical teams to remote mountain areas.

1957 The Board of Directors appointed Dr. Holleman to be the superintendent of M.M.H. It was through his dedicated efforts that many hospital services were improved.

1960 .3.14 Dr. Samuel Noordhoff became the superintendent. During his sixteen years of service, he transformed M.M.H. not only into a first-rate teaching hospital but also one that emphasized health care management.

1962 .3.9 A three-story hospital building was erected. The modern phase of the development of the hospital can be said to have started here.

1964 The Women’s Sponsorship Association was initiated to provide better and broader services to patients through volunteer workers. The name of the Association was changed to the Mackay Sponsorship Association in 1982.

1966 A Preventive Care Outpatient Clinic for Children was established to promote the concept that prevention is better than a cure.

1967 A 12 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the first of its kindin Taiwan, was initiated.

1969 The first Suicide Prevention Center in Southeast Asia was formed. It was the forerunner of the present Life Line, Peace Line, and telephone counseling program.

1969 A traveling medical team provided free outpatient services to seventeen aboriginal villages on Tai-Pin Mountain.

1971 A system whereby patients could register with the physicians of their choice was implemented for the first time in Taiwan.

1975 Dr. Tsai-Cheng Wu became the superintendent. During his seventeen years of service, he led the hospital through many crises. Under his leadership, M.M.H. experienced extraordinary expansion. Two new medical buildings were constructed. Information technology systems were upgraded and the hospital was modernized. M.M.H. gradually became a modern medical center.

1979 An explosion occurred on Fu-Yuan Street in Taipei. Rescue efforts by M.M.H. gained general acclaim.

1982 The Hospital began to send physicians to Orchid Island, remote island off the eastern coast, to provide medical services on a long-term basis. It was quite unprecedented for a hospital to do so at that time.

1982 .3.25 In the Fu-Tien coal mine disaster at the Nei-Hu District, Taipei, doctors and nurses from M.M.H. were among the first group of rescuers to risk their lives in the collapsed tunnel. The bravery of these medical workers exemplified the Mackay Model.

1990 M.M.H. established the first hospice in Taiwan with 18 beds. This made Taiwan the 18th country in the world to set up a hospice.

1992 .3.1 Dr. Chung-Chi Lan assumed the superintendency and strove towards the goal of having M.M.H. designated a medical center. A general research building and a dormitoryfor nurses were subsequently completed in Tamsui.

1994 The Hospital founded the first Demonstration Burn Ward in Taiwan. A joint medical team of plastic surgeons, rehabilitation physicians and therapists, special nurses and social workers collaborated to care for patients with serious burns.

1994 .2.23 A strategic decision was made that M.M.H. would establish its own medical college.
1995 The Taipei County Government, in appreciation of the contribution of Dr. Mackay, erected a bust of him near the historical site of the Mackay Clinic.

1996 .3.1 Dr. Kun-Wu Tsan became the superintendent. He continued to supervise the construction of the third medical building to its completion. He was also committed to modernizing the hospital’s medical information system. The plans for the Mackay Medical College and the Mackay Nursing College enjoyed great progress under his direction. M.M.H. moved towards the goal of better
medical quality and more efficient administration.1996 The Rape Crisis Management Center ( the first of its sort ) was established.

1998 .4.27 Mackay Hospice and Palliative Care Center had its opening ceremony in the Tamshui Branch Hospital. It is the first educational hospice in Taiwan.

1998.11.27 The Taipei City Government commissioned M.M.H. to manage its Ta-Tong Day Care Center for the Elderly, the first day care center administered by a private hospital.

1999 .3.9 The third medical administration building reached its completion. Miss Jen-Nai Wang, a woman pastor and nurse, was commissioned as a medical missionary to the Akah tribe in northern Thailand.

1999.8.1 Mackay School of Nursing was upgraded to Mackay Nursing College.

1999.9.27 Mackay Tamsui Branch Hospital Nursing Home was completed.

2000.1 Responding to the 921 earthquake, a medical team was sent to the Zen-Ai Hsiang.

2000.2 The Nan-Men General Hospital, Guan-Fu Branch, was purchased with a view to starting a Hsin-Chu Branch Hospital for M.M.H.

2000.4.1 Vice Superintendent Chun-Hsiung Huang became the superintendent and continued the goal of medical evangelism. Primary strategic decisions included revamping of older buildings, construction of a new medical building in Tamsui, establishing the Hsin-
Chu and Seh-Men Lau-Mei Branch Hospitals, and continuing efforts towards the construction of the Mackay Nursing College and Mackay Medical College. New goals consisted of strengthening personnel policies, promoting human resources, continuing computerization, boosting efficiency and quality, and reducing costs. In addition, new efforts were dedicated to the integration of church hospitals, of churches with M.M.H., and of medical services for remote areas and islands. Overseas medical evangelism, Christian faith for the staff, founding of a communication center, the production of gospel programs, and the like, are other objectives.

2000.4.29 A ground-breaking ceremony was held for the new medical building in Tamsui.

2000.5.4 A ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Mackay Nursing College 2000.5.5 The donation of land by Seh-Men Shiang was accepted to be used for the Lau-Mei Branch Hospital.

2000.5.8 M.M.H. passed the accreditation process and was designated a medical center.

2000.5.22 Vice Superintendent F. Y. Huang became deputy Minister of the Department of Health (DOH) in Taiwan.

2000.10.22 120th Anniversary Walk.

2000.11.19 120th Anniversary Games.

2000.12.26 120th Anniversary Thanksgiving Ceremony, with President Shui-Bien Chen as guest speaker.

2001.3.9 100th memorial musical celebration of Dr. G. L. Mackay.

2001.5.30 Dr. John Ross Mackay (grandson of Dr. G. L. Mackay) visited Taiwan.

2001.6.1 Celebration of the Dr. G. L. Mackay postage stamp.

2001.6.2 Proclamation of Mackay Day in Tamsui Township.

2001.9.15 Balanced Scorecard Workshop.

2001.10.10 Mackay Medical College Organizing workshop.

2002.6.1 Grand opening of the Mackay Innovation Center.

2002.8.8 Grand opening of the Mackay Examination Center.

2003.4.7 Proactive anti-SARS efforts.

2003.7.1 Mr. W. C. Chang became administrative Vice-Superintendent.

2003.8.12 Anti-SARS Thanksgiving Ceremony in Taipei.

2003.8.19 Anti-SARS Thanksgiving Ceremony in Tamsui.

2004.4.1 Dr. C. S. Huang started his 2nd term as superintendent.