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SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is a public medical school and hospital in Brooklyn, New York.It is the southernmost member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and the only academic medical center for health education, research, and patient care serving Brooklyn's 2.5 million residents.
Its collegiate division would later form the Downstate Medical Center, an academic unit of the State University of New York in 1948. [citation needed] The Polhemus Memorial Clinic, an eight-story 1897 tower that was part LICH until July 2008, is considered to be the first example of skyscraper hospital, anywhere in the world. [3]
The site where the Downstate Medical Center stands was purchased in 1946. In 1950, the state university merged with Long Island College Hospital to form SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. [6] Later, the university was called The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn and the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of New York.The hospitals are listed by the most recent hospital name with the name of the health system, county, city, date the hospital first opened, and most recent number of beds, when known.
Founded in 1871, merged with Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn to become Interfaith Medical Center in 1982. Both sites remained open, although the larger of the two, Jewish, reduced its number of beds to comply with a state directive. [85] [13] [17] [61] [107] St. Mary's Female Hospital, 155 Dean Street, Brooklyn. Maternity.
Victory Memorial Hospital was a 254-bed medical facility. [1] It was announced in 2006 that they're closing; [2] [3] they were acquired by SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2009 and renamed SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge. [4]
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The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic (Brooklyn Free Clinic or BFC) is a student run free clinic located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY.Nearly all the positions from front desk administration and clinical volunteers to Executive Board are staffed by students from the various colleges of SUNY Downstate Medical Center.