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Kings County Hospital was born of necessity, dedicated to caring for the underprivileged of Brooklyn. In 1824, New York State established a law requiring several counties, including the County of Kings (Brooklyn), to purchase lands to be used exclusively to house the poor, deferring all potential real estate taxes which could be levied on the land.
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Patients requiring more were taken to Kings County Hospital, about seven miles away, in a horse-drawn ambulance. [ 3 ] Construction of "the first part of the Hammett Pavilion, the yellow building facing Ocean Parkway," [ 6 ] to build a 100-bed hospital, began in 1908, north of Coney Island Creek and east of Ocean Parkway .
New York Community Hospital, 2525 Kings Highway, Brooklyn. Founded as Madison Park Hospital in 1929. Later Hospital of the Jacques Loewe Foundation. Renamed Community Hospital of Brooklyn in the mid-1960s. Became New York Community Hospital when it was acquired by New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 1997.
The American Hospital Directory lists 261 active hospitals in New York State in 2022. 210 of these hospitals have staffed beds, with a total of 64,515 beds. The largest number of hospitals are in New York City. [ 1 ]
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In May 2007, the New York State Mental Hygiene Legal Service, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Kirkland & Ellis, a private law firm, filed a lawsuit against Kings County Hospital. The plaintiffs charged that its psychiatric unit was "a chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger."
Merged with New York Hospital and Lying-In Hospital, moving with the latter into New York Hospital's building on September 1, 1932. [147] Medical Arts Center Hospital, 57 West 57th Street, Manhattan. Now drug rehabilitation. Metropolitan Throat Hospital, opened January 5, 1874 at [154] 17 Stuyvesant Street (Third Avenue).