Bay Ridge Hospital's

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building became a nursing home.

History

Pre-

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plans to build a hospital at Seventh Avenue, to be named ''Bay Ridge Hospital'', were altered, and that location became

Victory Memorial Hospital Victory Memorial Hospital was a 254-bed medical facility. It was announced in 2006 that they're closing; they were acquired by SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2009 and renamed ''SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge''. History ''Victory Memorial'' was ...

, as "a monument to the soldiers of the section who died in service." The result was described as "There would be no more Bay Ridge Hospital. Or would there?" A series of steps led to what actually became ''Bay Ridge Hospital'': * In 1912 "a group of local doctors" bought and converted a mansion "on Ovington Avenue, between Third and Fourth" into what was named "''Bay Ridge Sanitarium'', which had 12 beds." * In 1920 "a fireproof, one-story maternity ward was built." * By 1926 they had added space to the fire-vulnerable Sanitarium, and they had a total of 96 beds. After a major fire, they rebuilt, resulting in a five-story fireproof 437 Ovington Street main building and, across the street, "the hospital purchased 438 Ovington Avenue for use as its nurses’ home." The 438 building "no longer exists" and 437 became "St. Nicholas Home for the elderly."

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