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Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC, also referred to as Metropolitan Hospital) is a hospital in East Harlem, New York City. It has been affiliated with New York Medical College since it was founded in 1875, [ 1 ] representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States.
At its largest, the hospital had a total of 392.30 acres. [2] The hospital was self-sufficient in its early days. A dairy, garden, pigs, and cows produced income and food products that could be used by the staff and patients. The farm also kept food costs at a minimum, at a time when milk prices alone had increased from 17 cents per gallon in ...
Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the President of the United States and other world leaders if they become ill or injured while in New York City. [ 5 ] The organization underwent a rebranding initiative in November 2015, shortening its name from 40 characters to 19 characters, as "NYC Health + Hospitals".
This is a list of hospitals in the five boroughs of New York City, sorted by hospital name, with addresses and brief descriptions of their formation and development.
Metropolitan Throat Hospital, opened January 5, 1874 at [155] 17 Stuyvesant Street (Third Avenue). [156] [157] It moved to 314 East 45th Street in 1879 [158] and then 351 West 34th Street in 1883. [159] It is unrelated to Metropolitan Hospital, though the throat hospital was sometimes reported under that name in its early years. [160]
The hospital was originally equipped with only 28 beds. By the late 1970s, the hospital had grown to include over 200 beds. After decades of growth, the hospital was renamed Metropolitan Hospital so it could represent the multiple specialties now working with patients. [4] By the 1990s, Metropolitan Hospital was seeking to expand.
Renamed Community Hospital of Brooklyn in the early 1960s, renamed New York Community Hospital when it was acquired by New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 1997. Maternity Hospital of Brownsville and East New York, 1395 Eastern Parkway. Later Brooklyn Hebrew Maternity Hospital [96] and then Brooklyn Women's Hospital (1930-1960s).
Bennett also trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1893 and 1895. Bennett was described as being a much-loved matron, who had happy and contented staff. [11] In the First World War, the Metropolitan Hospital was an outpost of Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital in Millbank for wounded and sick officers. [12]