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The Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility is located at the site of the former North General Hospital, which was closed in July 2010. [2] [3] This facility partially offset the closure of the Goldwater Memorial Hospital of the Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility located on the south side of Roosevelt Island.
the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital after James Hood Wright in 1895, the Knickerbocker Hospital in 1913, and finally, in 1974, as the Arthur C. Logan Memorial Hospital [8] after Arthur C. Logan only a few years before it closed in 1979. [9] [4] [5] The 1914 Directory of Social and Health Agencies listed the hospital as such:
Goldie D. Brangman-Dumpson was one of the surgical team at Harlem Hospital that saved Martin Luther King Jr. in 1958. [35] Clara Brawner was the only African American woman practicing medicine in the Memphis area in the mid 1950s. [48] Mary Elizabeth Britton in 1904 became the first African American woman licensed as a physician in Lexington ...
In 1867, the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania legally changed its name to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. [6] In 1874, the college began construction of its own building, thanks to an earlier bequest of Isaac Barton, one of the corporators. [7] The new location was adjacent to the Woman's Hospital of Pennsylvania on North College ...
Collyer brothers – compulsive hoarders; lived in a townhouse at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem their entire adult lives; Countee Cullen – poet [33] Lillian Harris Dean – entrepreneur known as "Pigfoot Mary" Aaron Douglas – painter; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue [35] [37] W. E. B. Du Bois – activist, writer; lived at 409 ...
Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in south Georgia one year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday, enjoyed tributes to his legacy and lost his wife of ...
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]
Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center.