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See New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, in the section on hospitals in Manhattan above. Beth David Hospital, 321 East 42nd Street, Manhattan. Incorporated as the Yorkville Dispensary for Women and Children at 246-248 East 82nd Street on November 29, 1886, moved to 1822-1828 Lexington Avenue and 113th Street in April 1912 and into a ...
Later the hospital moved to 161 East 90th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The first occupant of 161 East 90th Street was Pan American Hospital, which was intended "to serve the Latin-American people through their own Spanish and Portuguese-speaking doctors and nurses."
The State Emigrant Refuge and Hospital is also notable in American health history. In 1888, a baby incubator was used there for reportedly the first time in the United States. [31] On September 7, 1888 baby Edith Eleanor McLean was born approximately 13 weeks prematurely to mother Agnes McLean of Glasgow, Scotland.
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. [2] It is located in East Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the eastern border of Central Park stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. [3]
The petition was granted by a charter bearing the date of June 13, 1771 incorporating the "Society of the Hospital in the city of New York, in America", later termed the "Society of the New York Hospital". Between 1816 and 1818 the Society of the New York Hospital purchased 26 acres (11 ha) of land on which to build an asylum in a part of upper ...
Hospital for Special Surgery was incorporated in New York City on March 27, 1863, as The Hospital of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, [4] by a group that included Dr. James Knight, a general practicing physician, and Robert M. Hartley, a secretary of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
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The hospital was founded in its original building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan [2] in 1884 as New York Cancer Hospital by a group that included John Jacob Astor III and his wife Charlotte. [5] The hospital appointed as an attending surgeon William B. Coley, who pioneered an early form of immunotherapy to eradicate tumors. [6]