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In 1883, the Long Island Rail Road opened its Atlantic Branch to Brooklyn, making Jamaica a suburb of New York City. The residents held a fundraiser in 1883 and collected $179.40 (equivalent to $5,866 in 2023). This money was saved until the Jamaica Hospital was opened in 1891 near what is now Jamaica Avenue and 169th Street.
More detailed descriptions are in the lists of hospitals in New York City's five boroughs and separate articles for many notable hospitals. 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 ...
El Shaddai Medical Centre Jamaica; Gynae Associates Hospital (private) Heart Institute of the Caribbean; Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Maxfield Park Medical Center; Medical Associates Hospital (private) National Chest Hospital (NCH) Nuttall Memorial Hospital (private) Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Center; St. Joseph's Hospital
River Crest Sanitarium, a New York State licensed mental hospital located in Astoria, Queens. [62] Closed by 1961, replaced by a private high school. Rockaway Beach Hospital, 152 Beach 85th Street, Queens. Opened on April 30, 1911, renamed Peninsula Hospital, and moved to 51-15 Beach Channel Drive on June 12, 1960, closed in April 2012. [59 ...
[98] [99] Beginning in fall 1954, Queens Hospital Center and Queens College began an experimental two-year nursing program free of tuition, funded by a $50,000 grant from the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York (now the City University of New York). [100] [101] This program would evolve into the Queens Hospital Center School of ...
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In 1859, KPH began offering 24-hour service seven days per week. In 1936, the then Senior Medical Officer, Dr Arthur Westmorland, separated surgical from medical cases for the first time. Four new operating theatres were built in 1962, in addition to the two previously built in 1928.
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.