Endowments; Hospitals; Hospitals--Finance; New York (State); Broad Street Hospital
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 80
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
New York–Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, 170 William Street, Manhattan. New York Infirmary was founded by Elizabeth Blackwell as the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children at 207 East 7th Street in 1853, renamed New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children in 1857, moved to 321 East 15th Street in 1858, and renamed New York Infirmary. St. Gregory's Free Emergency Accident Hospital and Ambulance Station was founded by the Volunteers of America at 93 Gold Street in 1905, and renamed Volunteer Hospital by 1908, moved to 117 Beekman Street in 1917, renamed Beekman Street Hospital in 1922, and renamed Beekman Hospital by 1924. Broad Street Hospital was founded on April 12, 1916, opened at 127-129 Broad Street on September 17, 1917, and was renamed Downtown Hospital in 1938. Beekman and Downtown Hospitals merged to form Beekman-Downtown Hospital on August 19, 1945. New York Infirmary and Beekman Downtown Hospitals merged to form New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital on November 19, 1979, consolidated at the Beekman site in 1981, renamed New York Downtown Hospital in 1991, renamed N.Y.U. Downtown Hospital in 1997, reverted to New York Downtown Hospital in 2005, and renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital in 2013." [SOURCE: "List of hospitals in Manhattan." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Manhattan. Accessed 24 Sep. 2018.] “After the first treatment room was established, citizens recognized the need for more medical services locally. In 1896, a citizen-donated bathhouse was established as a makeshift hospital. With the support of Oneida Mayor, J. M. Goldstein, who donated a plot of land on Williams Street, a four-bed hospital opened in 1899. The first Broad Street Hospital was built in 1906 to meet the ever-growing needs of Oneida and the surrounding areas. A year later the Broad Street Hospital School of Nursing opened and within eight years, the Hospital's size had tripled..." [SOURCE: "Our History." Oneida Healthcare, https://www.oneidahealthcare.org/our-hospital/our-history. Accessed 5 Nov. 2018.]