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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),
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.
The Foundling became a teaching hospital. It was here that Doctor Joseph O'Dwyer developed a life saving method of intubation for children afflicted with diphtheria. [7] By 1894, a report was given by social reformer Elbridge Gerry that child murder has been practically stamped out in the City of New York from the time that the New York ...
The Sisters in New York established The New York Foundling in 1869, [6] an orphanage for abandoned children but also a place for unmarried mothers to receive care themselves and offer their children for adoption. (New York immigrant communities were plagued by prostitution rings that preyed on young women, and out-of-wedlock pregnancies were a ...
New York Nursery and Child's Hospital was an obstetrics and pediatrics hospital founded on May 2, 1854 by Mary Ann Delafield DuBois and Ana R. Emmit in New York City. [1] [2] Initially the Hospital served as a foundling home and provided care for New York's working women and their children. It was a pioneer in treating infants under the age of two.
Nurses staged a strike at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan in January 2023. It led to a contract deal being struck that included staffing minimums, which an arbitrator later determined were not met ...
Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon (1823–1896) – nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital; Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1876–1950) – author of children's books; Rolf G. Fjelde (1926–2002) – playwright, educator and poet; Yonnette Fleming (born 1968) – urban farmer; Farrah Fleurimond – singer-songwriter and member of R&B group Lyric
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