BronxCare Hospital System#Bronx Hospital

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The current hospital center owes its origins to the immigration of European Jews in the late 19th century that caused an even greater strain on the area's hospitals. Jonas Weil, after a poor experience in trying to obtain treatment for a friend decided to look for a solution to this problem. The first step in this process was the creation of the Lebanon Hospital Association via his own donation of $10,175. Further monies followed from others, and the Lebanon Hospital was chartered in 1890 and opened in 1893 at the corner of Westchester Avenue and 151st Street.{{cite book

|last=Jackson |first=Ken |title=The Encyclopedia of New York City |year=2010 |publisher=Yale University Press

|isbn=978-0-3001-8257-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&q=%22Bronx+Lebanon+Hospital%22&pg=PT3387}} A nursing school was added in 1894, and several expansions followed that coincided with continued population growth in the region.

Finally, Lebanon Hospital moved to a newer building on Grand Concourse at Mount Eden Parkway in 1946. During World War II, it had served as "the Army's {{visible anchor|Bronx Area Station Hospital}}."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/06/08/archives/soldier-aid-stressed-mayor-urges-volunteers-to-help-wounded-after.html

|title=Soldier Aid Stressed – Mayor Urges Volunteers to Help Wounded After War

|date=June 8, 1944}}

The Bronx Hospital, meanwhile, was founded in 1911 to meet the healthcare needs of the growing South Bronx community and was caring for more than 30,000 patients per year within its first seven years of operation. The operational team of the new hospital purchased the Eichler estate on Fulton Avenue and turned the home into a 110-bed hospital. Within an additional seven years, the local population grew further, necessitating a 310-bed hospital.

By the time the 1950s had drawn to a close, the two hospital boards shared staff and resources in order to serve the needs of the Bronx's still-growing population, and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center was created in 1962. The current center consists of two major facilities: one at the Lebanon Hospital Grand Concourse site, a 17-story tower that provides medical, specialty, outpatient and emergency services; and one on Bronx Hospital's Fulton site, now a psychiatric and substance abuse program and a 240-bed skilled nursing facility. The hospital's promise is that it does not turn anyone away,{{cite news|title=The Best Doctors in New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UeECAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Bronx+Lebanon+Hospital%22&pg=PA183|access-date=2012-06-09|newspaper=New York Magazine|date=1996-05-20}} although it has come under scrutiny due to its billing practices that left some patients facing large bills.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

On December 6, 2017, the organization's name was changed from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center to BronxCare Health System.{{cite web |title=Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Consolidation of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center |url=https://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/public_health_and_health_planning_council/meetings/2018-02-08/docs/blhc.pdf |website=New York State Department of Health |access-date=13 January 2022}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/nyregion/bronx-fire-building.html |title=Fire at Bronx Apartment Building Kills 4 |author1=Neil Vigdor |author2=Mariel Padilla |date=March 31, 2020}} In addition to the hospital on the Grand Concourse{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/nyregion/bronx-lebanon-hospital-neighborhood.html |title=Bronx-Lebanon, Site of Shooting, Is More Than a Hospital to Neighbors |author1=Nikita Stewart |author2=Vivian Wang |date=July 4, 2017}} and the building that houses the psychiatric and substance abuse program and the skilled nursing facility, BronxCare has more than 30 ambulatory medical practices throughout the community.{{cite web |url=http://blhcpediatrics.org/node/32 |title=Department of Pediatrics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403081216/http://blhcpediatrics.org/node/32|archive-date=2013-04-03}}

{{Main|Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack}}

At approximately 3 p.m. on June 30, 2017, gunman Dr. Henry William Bello,{{cite web|url=https://www.africanews.com/2017/07/01/new-york-bronx-lebanon-hospital-shooter-identified-as-nigerian/|title=New York Bronx-Lebanon Hospital shooter identified as Nigerian|last=AfricaNews|date=1 July 2017|website=Africanews}} a doctor who left Bronx-Lebanon after sexual harassment complaints, entered the building with an AR-15 rifle concealed under a lab coat. He attempted to locate a female target, then shot other medical staff, killing one doctor and wounding six other people.{{cite web |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-lebanon-hospital-shooter-henry-bello-article-1.3292140 |title= What we know about Bronx Lebanon Hospital shooter Henry Bello |first1= Rocco |last1=Parascandola |first2=Noah |last2=Goldberg |first3=James |last3=Fanelli |date= June 30, 2017 |work= New York Daily News |access-date= June 30, 2017 }}{{cite web |url= http://www.businessinsider.com/bronx-lebanon-nyc-shooting-hospital-2017-6 |title= At least 3 doctors shot at New York City hospital, NYPD says one shooter is dead |author= Mark Abadi and Michelle Mark |date= June 30, 2017 |work= Business Insider |access-date= June 30, 2017 }} Approximately one hour later police found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.{{cite web |url= http://www.fox5ny.com/news/264943082-story |title= Doctor opens fire in Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; gunman dead |author= |date= June 30, 2017 |website=www.fox5ny.com |access-date= June 30, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170630232418/http://www.fox5ny.com/news/264943082-story |archive-date= June 30, 2017 |url-status= dead }}

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