Carrie Tingley Hospital, the sole provider of pediatric orthopedics and children’s rehabilitation in New Mexico, established the CTH Education & Research fund in May 2001. The fund is newly named the “Frederick C. Sherman, MD Education & Research.”
Sherman was CTH director from 2000 – 2007 and was responsible for establishing the fund, created to expand programs for both medical education and the care for pediatric orthopedic rehabilitative needs of children in the State of New Mexico. Donations can be made through United Way under UNM Foundation, CTH Frederick C. Sherman Education & Research account.
Carrie Tingley Hospital’s history dates back to autumn of 1937, when a ceremony was held to open the doors of New Mexico’s new children’s hospital. Named after Carrie Tingley, wife of then-Governor Clyde Tingley, who felt a hospital was needed for New Mexico children suffering from polio.
The Tingleys chose Hot Springs, later named Truth or Consequences, located in southern New Mexico. It was known for its healing mineral waters and resembled a similar site in Warm Springs, Georgia, where their friend Franklin Roosevelt was treated for polio.
As polio became less wide spread due to new vaccines, the hospital’s direction began to focus on other orthopedic conditions such as scoliosis, clubfoot, cerebral palsy and spina bifida.
In 1981, the hospital relocated to Albuquerque to align itself closely with local medical services and consultants. In 1987 the UNM Board of Regents was appointed as the CTH Board of Directors. Subsequent legislative action merged Carrie Tingley Hospital into the UNM Health Sciences Center with its own advisory board.
In the last 20 years Carrie Tingley has developed into the premier provider of orthopedic and pediatric services in New Mexico with special emphasis on children with disabilities.