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The Foundling: The Story of the New York Foundling Hospital (2001) Carolee R. Inskeep. The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to Its Federal, State, and Local Census Records, 1879–1925 (Baltimore, 1995) Sisters of Charity. The New York Foundling Hospital: Its Foundress and Its Place in the Community (1944),
Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when abandoned infants were routinely sent to almshouses with the sick and insane.
St. John's Episcopal Hospital was founded in 1871 as a sectarian hospital. It was later known as St. John's Hospital of Brooklyn, [1] 1545 Atlantic Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Central Brooklyn, and became a major teaching affiliate of the State University of New York Downstate Medical School.
The New York Foundling Hospital was established in 1869 by Sister Mary Irene Fitzgibbon of the Sisters of Charity of New York as a shelter for abandoned infants. The Sisters worked in conjunction with Priests throughout the Midwest and South in an effort to place these children in Catholic families.
Opened as St. Joseph's Hospital on June 25, 1905, became the South Shore Division of Long Island Jewish Hospital in January 1973, renamed St. John's Episcopal Hospital South Shore on July 1, 1976. [28] [29] [30] St. Mary's Children's Hospital, 29-01 216th Street, Bayside, Queens. Founded in Manhattan in 1870, moved to Queens in 1951.
By 1901, local community leaders saw the need to expand the Society to a 50-bed hospital. They incorporated as Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn on November 9, 1901, and by 1903, had purchased an older hospital campus, the Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, to renovate and reopen. It was located on the block of Classon Avenue, between Prospect ...
[2] [6] A proposed closing was avoided via a takeover by a related hospital group. A bankruptcy filed in 1999 by that group resulted in selling one of the group's hospitals. [9] In 1987 the 300-bed hospital installed a dairy kosher kitchen. [10] Peninsula Hospital, which in 2006 a state agency wanted St. Johns to absorb, [11] closed in 2012.
St. John's Riverside Hospital is a private, community hospital located in Yonkers, New York. It was founded in 1869 as the first hospital in Westchester County, and shares a location and history with the Cochran School of Nursing, which was founded in 1894 as the first nursing school in Westchester. The hospital was two primary locations in ...