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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]
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]
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]
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers (also known as Saint Vincent's or SVCMC) was a healthcare system in New York City, anchored by its flagship hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. St. Vincent's was founded in 1849 and was a major teaching hospital in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is a list of hospitals in the five boroughs of New York City, sorted by hospital name ...
Strecker Memorial Laboratory is a historic building at Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City.Built in 1892 to serve as a laboratory for City Hospital, it was "the first institution in the nation for pathological and bacteriological research".
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.
It was founded by the City of New York in 1885. It was named after Willard Parker, a prominent physician and surgeon, who at the time was a member of the Citizens' Association which called for the state legislature to establish an independent city health department. Parker later became the Vice President of the first New York City Board of Health.