Cabrini Medical Center

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Cabrini Medical Center
Cabrini Medical Center (New York City)
Cabrini Medical Center
Shown within New York City
Location
Place New York City, New York, (US)
Coordinates 40°44′36″N 73°59′04″W / 40.743258, -73.984337 (Cabrini Medical Center)Coordinates: 40°44′36″N 73°59′04″W / 40.743258, -73.984337 (Cabrini Medical Center)
Organization
Care System/Type Unknown
Services
Emergency Dept. Unknown
Beds Unknown
History
Founded 1973
Closed 2008
Links
Website Homepage
See also Hospitals in New York

Cabrini Medical Center of New York City is a hospital that was formed in the late 20th century by a merger of two pre-existing New York City hospitals.

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[edit] Columbus Hospital

Columbus Hospital was founded in 1892[1], incorporated in 1895[1], and officially opened on March 18th, 1896[2] by a mission of the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to address the needs of Italian immigrants.

The founding group included the (now canonized) Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini[3] and among the first physicians of the hospital was George Frederick Shrady.[2]

The original address of the hospital was 226 and 228 East Twentieth Street which had a capacity of 125 beds in 1886.[1] In 1913 it was moved to more adequate quarters vacated by the New York Polyclinic Hospital on 214-218 East Thirty-Fourth Street.[4]

[edit] Italian Hospital

Italian Hospital was founded in 1937 by the Italian Hospital Society with the assets of and at the West 110 Street location of the defunct Parkway Hospital.[5]

[edit] Merger

In July 1973 Columbus Hospital and Italian Hospital merged.[5] The combined organization took the name Cabrini Medical Center and was located at East 19th Street in Gramercy Park.[3]

[edit] Discontinuation of Services

As of April 2008 the Cabrini Medical Center web site reports "As of March 14, 2008, many of the services at Cabrini Medical Center are no longer available."

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Medical Directory of the City of New York, 1886, New York: Medical Society of the County of New York, 1886, pp. 326-327, OCLC 8665366, <http://books.google.com/books?id=Gc814MLVQx4C&printsec=frontcover#PPA326,M1> 
  2. ^ a b George Frederick Shrady, Editor (March 28th, 1896), “Opening of the Columbus Hospital, New York”, Medical Record (Washington Institute of Medicine) 49 (13): 451, ISSN 0363-0803, <http://books.google.com/books?id=0h4CAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA451,M1> 
  3. ^ a b Columbus Hospital / Cabrini Medical Center. Immigrant Heritage Trail. Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
  4. ^ “COLUMBUS HOSPITAL; Seeks to Increase Accommodations for Italian Poor”, The New York Times, April 6, 1913, <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE7DE103BE633A25755C0A9629C946296D6CF> 
  5. ^ a b Italian Hospital Society - About Us. Italian Hospital Society. Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
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