Jewish Memorial Hospital

Jewish Memorial Hospital opened 1905,[1] relocated[2] twice.[3][4] They closed in 1983.[5][6]

History

The 1936-built eight-story 186-bed[1] Inwood, Manhattan hospital,[5] like its earlier 1923 location, was planned[7] [8] as a "commemoration of Jewish veterans of World War I."[5][2][9]

The Inwood building was opened in 1937[3] and expanded in 1959.[10] In 1981 Jewish Memorial was part of a three-hospital neighborhood primary care coalition described as novel and unique.[11] In 1983, oversight agencies, after weighing reports that the hospital had serious "deficiencies" and recognition that it "serves a large minority community"[1] forced it to close.[5][12] An aftereffect of this closure, along with 30 others "in the last seven years" is an observation that it's "harder to get a sick patient into a decent hospital without dangerous delay."[13]

References
  1. Ronald Sullivan (June 5, 1983). "2 Agencies seek to shut Jewish Memorial Hospital". The New York Times.
  2. "DEDICATE JEWISH HOSPITAL.; Memorial to War Dead Will Have 400 Beds". The New York Times. May 28, 1923.
  3. "The new Jewish Memorial Hospital". The New York Times. June 20, 1937.
  4. "PARKS COME FIRST, MOSES DECLARES; Commissioner Insists Private Interest Must Not Hold Up Public Improvements. SETS FORTH HIS POLICY. He Notifies Jewish Memorial Hospital to Vacate by the End of This Year". The New York Times. May 4, 1934.
  5. Ronald Sullivan (August 18, 1983). "Jewish Memorial Hospital shuts after 6 shaky years". The New York Times.
  6. "$5,251,446 AWARDED ON LAND CITY SEIZED; 80 Former Property Owners at Inwood Hill and Isham Parks Get Damages in Court. $165,537 FOR G.F. BAKER Jewish Memorial Hospital and House of Mercy Get Larger Sums -- Hospital Must Move". The New York Times. July 25, 1926.
  7. "Plan Jewish Memorial Hospital". The New York Times. December 17, 1921.
  8. "O'Brien speaks for Hylan; Mayor Unable to attend Jewish Memorial hospital benefit". The New York Times. October 31, 1921.
  9. "WORK IS RUSHED ON NEW HOSPITAL; Jewish Memorial Building May Be Ready for Operation by March 1, 1935. STEEL MEN ARE FINISHED PWA Funds Allotted as Loan to Assure Completion of Plant on Time". The New York Times. July 14, 1934.
  10. "Hospital will exapnd: Jewish Memorial to increase Bed Space more than 23%". The New York Times. October 19, 1958.
  11. "A Manhattan community's novel approach to health services". The New York Times. May 14, 1981.
  12. Ronald Sullivan (August 9, 1983). "Cutoff ordered of U.S. Funds for a Hospital". The New York Times. the first such decision by a court since Medicare and Medicaid were enacted in 1965. .. Federal officials have called the area "medically underserved."
  13. Quentin B. Deming, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (August 30, 1983). "Too few hospitals for the doctors to put the patients in". The New York Times.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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