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Bellevue Hospital Center, First Avenue and East 26th Street, Manhattan. The oldest public hospital in the United States, founded as City Hospital on the future site of City Hall and opened on March 31, 1736. Moved to its current site and was named Bellevue for the name of the location in 1794. [11] [12]
It served both inmates and New York City's poorer population. [2] [3] In 1870, the hospital was renamed Charity Hospital and a medical superintendent was hired after the quality of care was criticized. [2] In 1877, Charity Hospital opened a school of nursing, the fourth such training institution in the United States. [4]
Weill Cornell Medical Center (/ w aɪ l /; previously known as New York Hospital, [3] Old New York Hospital, and City Hospital) is a research hospital in New York City. It is the teaching hospital for Cornell University's medical school and is part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital was founded in 1771 with a charter from George III.
Cabrini Medical Center of New York City was created in 1973 by a merger of two Manhattan hospitals. It closed in 2008 due to financial difficulties cited by the Berger Commission, [1] followed by a bankruptcy filing. [2]
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Metropolitan Hospital Center was founded in September 1875 as the Homeopathic Hospital. [5] It was established by the New York City Department of Public Charities and Correction on Wards Island. The island already had other hospitals dating to at least 1847. [6] [7] The new hospital was soon known as the Ward's Island Homeopathic Hospital. [8]
Alfred A. Richman, who had opened a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" in 1925, [1] subsequently "founded Manhattan General Hospital". [2] The hospital was at one point located at Second Avenue and 18th Street in Manhattan, New York City; that building was once used by the Lying-in Hospital. [3]
The hospital assumed the city's largest ambulance district for many decades [1] and worked at the forefront of treatments for polio, alcoholism, and gynecological care. Manhattan Hospital's successive names were: the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital after James Hood Wright in 1895, the Knickerbocker Hospital in 1913,