Monroe Community Hospital

Monroe Community Hospital^[1][2] is a chronic-care center in Rochester ^[3] that is operated by Monroe County.^[4] They also have a Skilled Nursing Facility^[5]

Monroe Community Hospital
Monroe County Community Hospital at the East Henrietta Road, designed by the Rochester architect Siegmund Firestone (2002)
Geography
Location	Rochester, New York, United States
Services
Beds	566
History
Opened	1933
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York State

History

The nonprofit^[4] 566-bed^[6] hospital's roots can be traced to the 1933-built Monroe Community Home and Infirmary,^[7] which was a replacement for the 1820s-built Monroe County Almshouse.^[8] The Community Home structure "was designed by local architect Sigmund Firestone." ^[7] Firestone employed Thomas Wilson Boyde Jr. (1905-1981),^[9][10] who later became^[11] "Rochester's first Black architect." Boyde's "decorative architectural elements added to" Firestone's design.^[12]

Some of the 190-year-old facility's^[13] attending physicians are "affiliated with the University of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital."^[4]

Controversy

In 2017 a local newspaper headlined "Two lawsuits in a month against Monroe Community Hospital."^[14] They had publicly fired their director in 2013.^[15][16]