Alfred A. Richman
{{Short description|Surgeon, hospital founder}}
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Alfred A. Richman (c. 1892 - December 8, 1984){{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/11/obituaries/dr-alfred-richman-92-dies-founded-hospital-in-the-city.html
|title=Dr. Alfred Richman, 92, Dies; Founded Hospital in the City
|date=December 11, 1984}} was "an orthopedic surgeon and an honorary trustee of Beth Israel Hospital"
who "founded Manhattan General Hospital in 1928 and was its executive director."
Medical career
Richman graduated from New York Medical College and was a "practicing orthopedic surgeon for a number of years." The rest of his career involved medical facilities:
- a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" (1925-1928){{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/06/09/archives/eviction-stay-won-by-sanitarium-head-supreme-court-grants-grace-to.html
|title=EVICTION STAY WON BY SANITARIUM HEAD; Supreme Court Grants Grace to Dr. Richman in Contest With Warren Smadbeck. HARM TO PATIENTS FEARED Some Would Be Imperiled by Move, It is Contended--Marshal Seizes Furniture.
|date=June 9, 1928}}
- 136 East 61st Street (1928-1930): a 20-bed facility named Plaza Hospital. Closed.
- 161 East 90th Street (1930-1934): Manhattan General Hospital. MGH relocated, and another hospital purchased the building.
- 305 Second Avenue (1934-1964): Manhattan General Hospital.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/22/archives/deaths.html
|quote=Medical Board of .. SAMUEL A. THOMPSON, M.D. President Medical Board; ALFRED A. RICHMAN, M.D. Executive Director
|title=Deaths |date=May 22, 1964}} acquired by Beth Israel in 1964.
Richman{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/13/archives/leagues-party-at-plaza-friday-to-aid-children-mrs-marshall-keating.html
|title=League's Party At Plaza Friday To Aid Children; Mrs. Marshall Keating Heads Benefit for Disabled Youths
|date=November 13, 1944}} subsequently served Beth Israel "as a trustee and as an administrative consultant."
=Tuberculosis=
"In 1949, under Dr. Richman's direction, Manhattan General became the first private, nonvoluntary institution in the city to set aside wards for the care of tuberculosis patients." A 1951 journal noted the unit's "multiple and vesatile" treatments.{{cite web
|url=https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0096-0217(16)60116-4/abstract
|author=J. S. Edlin |year=1951
|title=The Tuberculosis Patient in the General Hospital}}
Family
References
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External links
- [https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc1911801/pdf/bullnyacadmed00075-0053.pdf hospital founding history of Dr. Alfred A. Richman]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/12/archives/proprietary-hospitals-they-are-it-is-held-performing-necessary-and.html Alfred A. Richman Letter to The Editor]
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Category:New York Medical College alumni
Category:20th-century American physicians
Category:Year of birth uncertain
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