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St. John's Episcopal Hospital was founded in 1871 as a sectarian hospital. It was later known as St. John's Hospital of Brooklyn , [ 1 ] 1545 Atlantic Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Central Brooklyn , and became a major teaching affiliate of the State University of New York Downstate Medical School.
Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when abandoned infants were routinely sent to almshouses with the sick and insane.
The Foundling: The Story of the New York Foundling Hospital (2001) Carolee R. Inskeep. The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to Its Federal, State, and Local Census Records, 1879–1925 (Baltimore, 1995) Sisters of Charity. The New York Foundling Hospital: Its Foundress and Its Place in the Community (1944),
St. John's Episcopal Hospital South Shore, Queens, New York St. John's Hospital Camarillo , Camarillo, California St. John's Regional Medical Center (California) , Oxnard, California
By 1901, local community leaders saw the need to expand the Society to a 50-bed hospital. They incorporated as Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn on November 9, 1901, and by 1903, had purchased an older hospital campus, the Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, to renovate and reopen. It was located on the block of Classon Avenue, between Prospect ...
In 1987 the 300-bed hospital installed a dairy kosher kitchen. [10] Peninsula Hospital, which in 2006 a state agency wanted St. Johns to absorb, [11] closed in 2012. This closing left St. John's, whose emergency room "was last renovated in the 1960s" [12] as the only hospital in Far Rockaway.
The New York Foundling Hospital was established in 1869 by Sister Mary Irene Fitzgibbon of the Sisters of Charity of New York as a shelter for abandoned infants. The Sisters worked in conjunction with Priests throughout the Midwest and South in an effort to place these children in Catholic families.
St. Catherine & St. Charles Health & Wellness Center in 2017; St. John's Smithtown Hospital was purchased by the Catholic Health Services of Long Island (now known as Catholic Health) on February 29, 2000, and renamed St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center [14] after the 14th-century Catholic saint, theologian, and nurse Catherine Benincasa.