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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.
Calvary Hospital is an American non-profit institution specializing in hospice, palliative and end of life care, headquartered in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York. The hospital has a total of 225 beds. [2]
United Health Services (UHS) (United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.) is the largest and most comprehensive provider of healthcare services in upstate New York's Southern Tier. [ 3 ] A locally owned, not-for-profit system, it is governed by a volunteer board of directors composed of residents from around the region. [ 4 ]
The modernization project completed in 2014 created a new 450,000-square-foot state-of-the-art health care center; [6] and 85 new nursing home beds (increasing the total to 295) for The Residence at Gouverneur Court, a modern skilled nursing facility with rehabilitative medicine, long-term care, wound management, and hospice services. [2]
The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. It is a level II adult trauma center [1] and is a major clinical affiliate for clinical clerkship of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. [2] [3] [4]
Zucker Hillside Hospital is an inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital. In the 1940s, they were an early deployer of electroconvulsive therapy. [5] In 1948, it reported that over half their mentally ill patients reportedly "recover[ed] or show[ed] much improvement". [6]
The hospital features more than 75 divisions of specialty care, offering comprehensive [buzzword] inpatient and outpatient programs and services to address every stage of life. NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island also has a Research Institute that conducts robust [buzzword] research and studies that are helping to shape the future of medicine. [2]
On February 8, 2013, the Trustees of the State University of New York voted to close the hospital, which met with immediate protest from the public and the unions. [6] A re-vote by the State University of New York board of trustees was taken on March 19, 2013, who again voted to close down the hospital. [7]