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James Ewing Hospital
James Ewing Hospital was a 300-bed Manhattan hospital notable for helping cancer patients. Memorial Sloan Kettering took over running ''James Ewing Hospital'' in 1968. History ''Ewings predecessor was "''City Cancer Hospital on Welfare Island'';" the ''First Avenue'' location opened in 1950. The ''Ewing'' building was a "ten-story structure on First Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Streets" and ''James Ewing Hospital'' was "an affiliate of ''Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases''." an earlier name of ''Memorial Sloan Kettering''. The opening of the hospital happened on August 22, 1950 with 300 beds. In 1950, this was a "modern" hospital and named after James Ewing in honor of his cancer research. Founder In 1899 Ewing was appointed as the first professor of pathology at the Medical College of Cornell University. There, Ewing had access to the research laboratories at the New York Memorial Hospital, now known as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
