Newport Hospital
{{Short description|Hospital in Rhode Island, US}}
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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Newport Hospital
| Org/Group = Brown University Health
| Image = Emergency_entrance,_Newport_Hospital_Rhode_Island.jpg
| Caption = Emergency entrance
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| Location = Newport
| coordinates = {{Coord|41.49724|-71.30625|type:landmark_region:US-RI|display=inline,title}}
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| State = Rhode Island
| Country = US
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| HealthCare = Private
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| Emergency = Yes
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| Founded = 1873
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| publictransit = RIPTA {{rint|bus|1}} 60, 63
| Website = {{URL|www.brownhealth.org/locations/newport-hospital}}|
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Newport Hospital is a private, nonprofit hospital located in Newport, Rhode Island. Together with The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, Newport Hospital is a member of the Brown University Health system.{{cite web |url=http://www.lifespan.org/about/history.htm |title=The history of Lifespan, Rhode Island's first health system |publisher=Lifespan (lifespan.org) |accessdate=2009-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125051325/http://www.lifespan.org/about/history.htm |archive-date=2010-01-25 |url-status=dead }}
History
File:Newport Hospital in Rhode Island.jpg
Newport Hospital was founded in 1873 to provide better medical access to residents of Aquidneck Island, including the many mariners who previously travelled to Providence for treatment, an especially hazardous journey in the winter. Henry Ledyard served as the first president and co-founder of the hospital. Initially, the hospital was supported solely with private donations including the land upon which the first hospital, a small cottage, was built. Longtime Newport resident, George Peabody Wetmore, played a large role in building a new hospital building in the late nineteenth century.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}
In 1903 Alice Vanderbilt, a Newport summer resident, donated a facility to the hospital in honor of her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt II, which is currently called the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center.{{Cite news |last=Times |first=Special to The New York |date=1903-08-02 |title=VANDERBILT MEMORIAL OPENED; New Pavilion Donated by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., Transferred to Trustees of Newport Hospital. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1903/08/02/archives/vanderbilt-memorial-opened-new-pavilion-donated-by-mrs-cornelius.html |access-date=2022-10-06 |issn=0362-4331}} Upon her death in 1978, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's widow, bequeathed $1 million to the hospital.{{cite news |title=Vanderbilt will |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/137019006/?terms=%22Gertrude%2BVanderbilt%22 |accessdate=June 15, 2018 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=August 19, 1978|page=13|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}
In 2000 another new wing opened at the hospital. The Hospital partners with the Naval Station Newport in offering services to the military. Newport Hospital currently offers various services "including emergency care, diagnostic imaging, a birthing center, behavioral health unit, comprehensive surgical services, intensive care, acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation."http://www.lifespan.org/newport/about/history.htm (Jan. 2, 2009)
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.newporthospital.org/ Newport Hospital Official Website]
{{Newport, Rhode Island}}
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Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1873
Category:Hospitals in Rhode Island