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Queens Hospital Center

<p><b>Queens Hospital Center</b> (<b>QHC</b>), also known as <b>NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens</b><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-NYCHHC-QHCNeeds-2016_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-NYCHHC-QHCNeeds-2016-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> and originally called <b>Queens General Hospital</b>, is a large <a href="/en/Public_hospital" title="Public hospital" class="wl">public hospital</a> campus in the <a href="/en/Jamaica_Hills,_Queens" title="Jamaica Hills, Queens" class="wl">Jamaica Hills</a> and <a href="/en/Hillcrest,_Queens" title="Hillcrest, Queens" class="mw-redirect wl">Hillcrest</a> neighborhoods of <a href="/en/Queens" title="Queens" class="wl">Queens</a> in <a href="/en/New_York_City" title="New York City" class="wl">New York City</a>. It is operated by <a href="/en/NYC_Health_+_Hospitals" title="NYC Health + Hospitals" class="wl">NYC Health + Hospitals</a>, a <a href="/en/New_York_state_public-benefit_corporations" title="New York state public-benefit corporations" class="wl">public benefit corporation</a> of the city.</p>

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<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt7">Hospital in  New York, United States</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Queens Hospital Center, Geography, Location, ...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Queens Hospital Center</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category"><a href="/en/NYC_Health_+_Hospitals" title="NYC Health + Hospitals" class="wl">NYC Health + Hospitals</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span><a href="/en/File:164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg/225px-164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="5152" data-file-height="3864" data-file-type="bitmap" height="169" width="225" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg/338px-164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg/450px-164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg 2x" alt="164th_St_Queens_Hospital_06.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map mw-kartographer-container center wl" style="width: 250px; 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<p>Queens General Hospital opened in 1935 as the first municipal general hospital in the borough. It would absorb the adjacent <b>Queensboro Hospital for Communicable Diseases</b> shortly after opening, and the campus would later include <a href="/en/Triboro_Hospital_for_Tuberculosis" title="Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis" class="wl">Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis</a>, which opened in 1941. Queens Hospital Center was formed in 1952 and 1959 with the official merger of the three hospitals along with two other Queens medical facilities.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-QHC1_3-0"><a href="#cite_note-QHC1-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-LIStar-QHC-May1965_4-0"><a href="#cite_note-LIStar-QHC-May1965-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[4]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-NYTimes-QHC-Fete-Nov1960_5-0"><a href="#cite_note-NYTimes-QHC-Fete-Nov1960-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[5]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-LIStar-QHC-Dinner-Jan1959_6-0"><a href="#cite_note-LIStar-QHC-Dinner-Jan1959-6" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[6]</span></a></span> The current campus consists of modern buildings constructed in the 21st century, along with the former Triboro Hospital building.</p>



Queens Hospital Center , also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and originally called Queens General Hospital, is a large public hospital campus in the Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. It is operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a public benefit corporation of the city. Queens General Hospital opened in 1935 as the first municipal general hospital in the borough. It would absorb the adjacent Queensboro Hospital for Communicable Diseases shortly after opening, and the campus would later include Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, which opened in 1941. Queens Hospital Center was formed in 1952 and 1959 with the official merger of the three hospitals along with two other Queens medical facilities. The current campus consists of modern buildings constructed in the 21st century, along with the former Triboro Hospital building. 