Jewish Memorial Hospital

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| location = Inwood, Manhattan

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| state = New York

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| beds = 186

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| opened = 1934

| closed = 1982

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Jewish Memorial Hospital was a former hospital in New York City.{{cite news |date=May 4, 1934 |title=PARKS COME FIRST, MOSES DECLARES; Commissioner Insists Private Interest Must Not Hold Up Public Improvements. SETS FORTH HIS POLICY. He Notifies Jewish Memorial Hospital to Vacate by the End of This Year. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/04/archives/parks-come-first-moses-declares-commissioner-insists-private.html}} It opened 1898 and subsequently relocated twice.{{cite news |author=Ronald Sullivan |date=June 5, 1982 |title=2 Agencies seek to shut Jewish Memorial Hospital |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/05/nyregion/2-agencies-seek-to-shut-jewish-memorial-hospital.html}}{{cite news |date=June 20, 1937 |title=The new Jewish Memorial Hospital |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/06/20/archives/the-new-jewish-memorial-hospital.html}} The hospital permanently closed in 1982.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/18/nyregion/jewish-memorial-hospital-shuts-after-6-shaky-years.html

|title=Jewish Memorial Hospital shuts after 6 shaky years

|author=Ronald Sullivan |date=August 18, 1982}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/07/25/archives/5251446-awarded-on-land-city-seized-80-former-property-owners-at-in.html

|title=$5,251,446 AWARDED ON LAND CITY SEIZED; 80 Former Property Owners at Inwood Hill and Isham Parks Get Damages in Court. $165,537 FOR G.F. BAKER Jewish Memorial Hospital and House of Mercy Get Larger Sums -- Hospital Must Move.

|date=July 25, 1926}}

History

The 1934-built eight-story 186-bed Inwood, Manhattan hospital, like its earlier 1923 location, was planned{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1921/12/17/archives/plan-jewish-memorial-hospital.html

|title=Plan Jewish Memorial Hospital.

|date=December 17, 1921}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/10/31/archives/obrien-speaks-for-hylan-mayor-unable-to-attend-jewish-memorial.html

|title=O'Brien speaks for Hylan; Mayor Unable to attend Jewish Memorial hospital benefit |date=October 31, 1921}} as a "commemoration of Jewish veterans of World War I."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1923/05/28/archives/dedicate-jewish-hospital-memorial-to-war-dead-will-have-400-beds.html

|title=DEDICATE JEWISH HOSPITAL.; Memorial to War Dead Will Have 400 Beds.

|date=May 28, 1923}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/07/14/archives/work-is-rushed-on-new-hospital-jewish-memorial-building-may-be.html

|title=WORK IS RUSHED ON NEW HOSPITAL; Jewish Memorial Building May Be Ready for Operation by March 1, 1935. STEEL MEN ARE FINISHED PWA Funds Allotted as Loan to Assure Completion of Plant on Time.

|date=July 14, 1934}}

The Inwood building was opened in 1934 and expanded in 1959.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/10/19/archives/hospital-will-expand-jewish-memorial-to-increase-bed-space-more.html

|title=Hospital will expand: Jewish Memorial to increase Bed Space more than 23%

|date=October 19, 1958}} In 1981 the Jewish Memorial Hospital was part of a three-hospital neighborhood primary care coalition described as novel and unique.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/14/opinion/l-a-manhattan-community-s-novel-approach-to-health-services-120169.html

|title=A Manhattan community's novel approach to health services

|date=May 14, 1981}} In 1982, oversight agencies, after weighing reports that the hospital had serious "deficiencies" and recognition that it

"serves a large minority community" forced it to close.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/09/nyregion/cutoff-ordered-of-us-funds-for-a-hospital.html

|title=Cutoff ordered of U.S. Funds for a Hospital

|quote=the first such decision by a court since Medicare and Medicaid were enacted in 1965. .. Federal officials have called the area "medically underserved."

|author=Ronald Sullivan |date=August 9, 1982}} 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."{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/30/opinion/l-too-few-hospitals-for-the-doctors-to-put-the-patients-in-131213.html

|title=Too few hospitals for the doctors to put the patients in

|author=Quentin B. Deming, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

|date=August 30, 1982}}

References

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Category:Defunct hospitals in Manhattan

Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1934