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St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital has been involved with the earliest research in cardiac surgery and performed the first open-heart surgical procedure in New York State in 1954
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Research performed on early techniques of cardiac bypass as well organ perfusion systems for renal transplant was performed in the St. Luke's laboratory
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Although the Sisters of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion originally took charge of the nursing in the hospital, a shortage of adequately trained nurses available led to the formal creation of the nursing school in 1888
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The history of the St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses can be traced to the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion, which was created in 1845 by the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D. (1796-1877).