completed in the fall of 1919 at a cost of $257,699. Long Hospital remained in operation until 1970 when it was replaced by University Hospital. The cornerstone of the Riley Hospital for Children was laid on October 7, 1923, and dedicated on October 7, 1924. The hospital, named in honor of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, was erected north of Long Hospital. The James Whitcomb Riley Association (now known as the Riley Children's Foundation) hoped to raise an initial $250,000 in funding to add to the state's appropriation. By 1923 it had received $911,518 in pledges from more than 30,000 citizens, including $45,000 in donations from a mass fundraising event. Significant additions to the hospital were built over the years, including three in the 1930s: a Kiwanis Unit, dedicated in 1930; a Rotary Unit, dedicated in 1931; and a hydrotherapy pool in 1935. Another of the medical school's early teaching hospitals was the William H. Coleman Hospital for Women. Erected west of Long Hospital and dedicated on October 20, 1927, Coleman Hospital's total cost was about $300,000. Other early buildings erected on the medical school campus in Indianapolis included the Ball Residence for Nurses, dedicated on October 7, 1928; and Fesler Hall, built in 1939. Myers Hall was built in Bloomington in 1937 for the medical students there. The school's medical research building was expanded in 1947 with a five-year grant from the Riley Children's Foundation. The VanNuys Medical Sciences Building opened in Indianapolis in 1958. Consolidation and expansion Following the opening of VanNuys, all medical instruction was moved to Indianapolis. About half of the Bloomington faculty moved, with the remaining faculty forming the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at IU Bloomington. Not wanting Myers Hall to go unused, IU president Herman B. Wells secured funding for an advanced degree program that combined the first two years of basic science training of the MD program with a master's degree or PhD. A similar program was available at Stanford University at the time. Due to a projected shortage of American physicians in the early 1960s, some state politicians called for a second medical school. IUSM ceased its consolidatory efforts in Indianapolis and instead looked for partners throughout the state to expand medical education; Bloomington students were also now able to once again transfer to Indianapolis after the completion of their first two years. IUSM found its partners in 1968 at the