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Jewish Memorial Hospital
Defunct Manhattan hospital From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jewish Memorial Hospital was a former hospital in New York City.[1] It opened 1898 and subsequently relocated twice.[2][3][4] The hospital permanently closed in 1982.[5][6]
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History
The 1934-built eight-story 186-bed[3] 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 1934 and expanded in 1959.[4][10] In 1981 the Jewish Memorial Hospital was part of a three-hospital neighborhood primary care coalition described as novel and unique.[11] In 1982, oversight agencies, after weighing reports that the hospital had serious "deficiencies" and recognition that it "serves a large minority community"[3] 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]
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