Manhattan Medical Malpractice

Manhattan Hospitals: A – I

• Bellevue Hospital Center, First Avenue and East 26th Street, Manhattan. The oldest public hospital in the United States, founded as City Hospital on the future site of City Hall and opened on March 31, 1736. Moved to its current site and was named Bellevue for the name of the location in 1794.
• Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, 1752 Park Avenue, Manhattan. Opened in 2013 on the former site of North General Hospital.
• Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital, 900 Main Street, Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), Manhattan. The Welfare Hospital for Chronic Disease opened on July 6, 1939 and was renamed Goldwater Memorial Hospital in 1942 for Dr. Sigismund Schulz Goldwater, a former New York City and Health Commissioner and Hospitals Commissioner who died that year. Bird S. Coler Hospital opened on July 15, 1952 and occupied most of the north tip of the island. The two hospitals merged in 1996, and is located on the Coler site. The Goldwater portion was closed in 2013 and is being converted to a high-technology center.
• Gracie Square Hospital, 420 East 76th Street, Manhattan. Opened on March 22, 1959.
• Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan. Opened as Harlem Hospital on April 18, 1887 at East 120th Street and the East River, moved to Lenox Avenue on April 13, 1907, renamed Harlem Hospital Center.
• Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, Manhattan. Opened in the residence of Dr. James A. Knight, its founder, as the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled at 97 2nd Avenue on May 1, 1863. Moved to Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street on November 10 or 11, 1870, moved to 321 East 42nd Street in 1912, renamed Hospital for Special Surgery in 1940, moved to its present site in 1955.
• Lenox Hill Hospital, 100 East 77th Street, Manhattan. Incorporated at the German Hospital and Dispensary in the City of New York on April 13, 1861, opened on September 13, 1869, renamed Lenox Hill Hospital in 1918. The dispensary unit was located at 8 East 3rd Street Currently part of Northwell Health.

Manhattan Hospitals: M

• Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 210 East 64th Street, Manhattan. Specialized hospital, incorporated May 5, 1869.
• Manhattan Psychiatric Center, 600 East 125th Street, Ward’s Island, Manhattan. Opened as The New York City Asylum for the Insane in July 1868, renamed Manhattan State Hospital on February 28, 1896, renamed Manhattan Psychiatric Center and split into Dunlap, Kirby, and Meyer divisions in the 1970s.
• Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital (VA New York Harbor Healthcare System), 423 East 23rd Street, Manhattan. Opened in 1954.
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, Manhattan. Founded as New York Cancer Hospital at 455 Central Park West in 1884, renamed General Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in 1899, renamed Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in 1916, moved to its present location in 1939, renamed Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1960. It has an academic partnership with Cornell Medical School, known as the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Took over running James Ewing Hospital in 1968.

• Metropolitan Hospital Center, 1901 1st Avenue, Manhattan. Founded as the Homeopathic Hospital affiliated with the New York Homeopathic Medical College (now New York Medical College) in 1875, in a building originally built for the Inebriate Asylum on Ward’s Island. Later known as Ward’s Island Hospital. Moved to the site of the former New York City Asylum for the Insane on Blackwell’s Island (later known as Welfare Island and currently Roosevelt Island) in 1894, renamed Metropolitan Hospital, moved to its current location in 1955, renamed Metropolitan Hospital Center in 1965.
• Mount Sinai Beth Israel, 1st Avenue and East 16th Street, Manhattan. Incorporated as Beth Israel Hospital on May 28, 1890 and opened at 206 Broadway in 1891, moved to 70 Jefferson Street (at the corner of Cherry Street) on May 25, 1902, moved to its current location on March 12, 1929, merged labor and delivery services with Jewish Maternity Hospital on December 19, 1929, renamed Beth Israel Medical Center on March 10, 1965, renamed Mount Sinai Beth Israel on January 22, 2014 following its merger with Mount Sinai in 2013.
• Mount Sinai Hospital, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Manhattan. Incorporated on January 5, 1852, opened on West 28th Street and 8th Avenue as The Jews’ Hospital on May 17, 1855, renamed Mount Sinai Hospital in 1866, moved to Lexington Avenue between East 65th and East 66th Streets in 1870, and moved in 1904 to Fifth Avenue and 100th Street, a portion of which was renamed Gustave L. Levy Place in 1977.
• Mount Sinai Morningside, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. Incorporated on May 12, 1848, opened as St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in 1856 and originally housed in the Church of the Holy Communion at Sixth Avenue and 20th Street in Manhattan, moved to Fifth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets on May 13, 1858, moved to its current location in 1896, merged with Roosevelt Hospital to form St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital in 1979, acquired by Mount Sinai Hospital in 2013 and renamed Mount Sinai St. Luke’s on January 22, 2014.
• Mount Sinai West, 1000 10th Avenue, Manhattan. Incorporated as Roosevelt Hospital on February 2, 1864, via a bequest of James H. Roosevelt, opened on November 2, 1871, merged with St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital to form St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in 1979, acquired by Mount Sinai Hospital in 2013, renamed Mount Sinai Roosevelt on January 22, 2014, renamed Mount Sinai West in November 2015.

Manhattan Hospitals: N

• NewYork–Presbyterian – Allen Hospital, 5141 Broadway, Manhattan. Named in honor of Charles F. and Frances Allen after a donation by their children, Herbert and Charles Allen Jr. Opened July 21, 1988.
• NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, Manhattan. Founded as Presbyterian Hospital at Park Avenue and East 70th Street on February 28, 1868, renamed Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and moved to its current location on 1927, renamed Columbia University Medical Center upon its merger with New York Hospital in 1997.
• NewYork–Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, 170 William Street, Manhattan. New York Infirmary was founded by Elizabeth Blackwell as the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children at 207 East 7th Street in 1853, renamed New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children in 1857, moved to 321 East 15th Street in 1858, and renamed New York Infirmary. St. Gregory’s Free Emergency Accident Hospital and Ambulance Station was founded by the Volunteers of America at 93 Gold Street in 1905, and renamed Volunteer Hospital by 1908, moved to 117 Beekman Street in 1917, renamed Beekman Street Hospital in 1922, and renamed Beekman Hospital by 1924. Broad Street Hospital was founded on April 12, 1916, opened at 127-129 Broad Street on September 17, 1917, and was renamed Downtown Hospital in 1938. Beekman and Downtown Hospitals merged to form Beekman-Downtown Hospital on August 19, 1945. New York Infirmary and Beekman Downtown Hospitals merged to form New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital on November 19, 1979, consolidated at the Beekman site in 1981, renamed New York Downtown Hospital in 1991, renamed NYU Downtown Hospital in 1997, reverted to New York Downtown Hospital in 2005, and renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital in 2013.
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, Manhattan. Granted a royal charter by William III on June 13, 1771 and opened as New York Hospital on January 3, 1791 on the block bounded by Broadway, Church Street, Catherine (now Worth) Street, and Anthony (now Duane) Street. Moved to 7-25 West 15th Street in 1877, became affiliated with Cornell University in 1927, moved to its current site in 1932, renamed Weill Cornell Medical Center upon its merger with Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in 1997.
• New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, 310 East 14th Street, Manhattan. Incorporated March 29, 1822 as the New York Eye Infirmary at 218 2nd Avenue, renamed New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1864, renamed on January 22, 2014 after being acquired by Mount Sinai Hospital.
• NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, Manhattan. Incorporated as the Jewish Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases on October 11, 1905 and opened on November 4, 1906 at 1919 Madison Avenue. The Jewish was dropped from the name within two years and Deformities by 1921. Moved to East 17th Street in 1979, merged with NYU in 2006.
• NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, Manhattan. Consists of Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases. Tisch Hospital was founded as New-York Post-Graduate Hospital and affiliated with the New York Post-Graduate Medical School on June 15, 1882, opened at 226 East 20th Street on March 21, 1884, moved to 222 East 20th Street on May 8, 1894, then to 303 East 20th Street, took over Reconstruction Hospital on December 1, 1929, merged with NYU-Bellevue on November 9, 1948, renamed University Hospital on December 1, 1948, moved to 560 First Avenue on June 9, 1963, renamed Tisch Hospital for the Tisch family on January 25, 1989, and is currently part of NYU Langone Medical Center. The Hospital for Joint Diseases opened as the Jewish Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases at 1919 Madison Avenue in 1906, moved to 301 East 17th Street in 1979 and was named The Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, and merged with NYU Medical Center in 2006. The Rusk Institute was founded as the Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine by Dr. Howard A. Rusk and opened on East 38th street in June 1948, and renamed the Rusk Institute in his honor on June 18, 1984.

Manhattan Hospitals: O – Z

• Rockefeller Institute Hospital, 1230 York Avenue, Manhattan. Opened on October 17, 1910, first patient hospitalized on October 26, 1910. This is a 20-bed research hospital, and all patients are subjects in research studies.