NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital is a
nonprofit
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,
acute
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care,
teaching hospital
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in
New York City
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and is the only hospital in
Lower Manhattan
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south of
Greenwich Village
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. It is part of the
NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System is a network of independent, cooperating, acute-care and community hospitals, continuum-of-care facilities, home-health agencies, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes in the New York metropolitan a ...
and one of the main campuses of
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises seven distinct campuses located in the New Y ...
.
The Lower Manhattan Hospital operates 170 beds, and offers a full range of
inpatient
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and
outpatient
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services, as well as community outreach and
education
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. It is also a leader in the field of
emergency preparedness
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and
disaster management
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. The Hospital houses numerous medical and surgical sub-specialties with out-patient offices in both the 170 William St and 156 William St buildings. The Hospital serves the area's diverse neighborhoods including
Wall Street
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,
Battery Park City
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,
Chinatown
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,
SoHo
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,
TriBeCa
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,
Little Italy
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, and the
Lower East Side
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Traditionally an im ...
. It is the closest acute care facility to the
Financial District
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, to the seat of the City government, and to some of New York's most popular
tourist attractions
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.
History
![(King1893NYC) pg486 NEW-YORK DISPENSARY FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 15TH STREET AND LIVINGSTON PLACE](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/%28King1893NYC%29_pg486_NEW-YORK_DISPENSARY_FOR_WOMEN_AND_CHILDREN%2C_15TH_STREET_AND_LIVINGSTON_PLACE.jpg)
The name and location of the hospital have gone through several changes since
Elizabeth Blackwell
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founded the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children in 1853. In 1857 she opened the hospital under the name of New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children at East 7th Street near the present day
Tompkins Square Park
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. As the hospital required more space it moved in 1858 to
Stuyvesant Square
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. One of the hospital's administrators,
Anne Daniel, who headed the hospital from about 1894 to 1944
[ ] wrote a history of the hospital in the 1930s, entitled ''′A cautious experiment.′ The history of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary'', which was serialized in the ''Medical Woman’s Journal'' (46) between May 1939 and December 1939.
Finally in 1981, merging with the Beekman Downtown Hospital, it relocated to its present site in Lower Manhattan under the name of New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital.
In 1929
Narcissa Cox Vanderlip
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She attended the University of Chicago, but left in her senior year to get married. On May 19, 1903, she married Frank A. Vanderlip in her home town of Chicag ...
became the president of the hospital, which position she held for thirty-seven years.
In 1991, the hospital was renamed New York Downtown Hospital. In 1997, after three years of affiliation with
NYU Medical Center
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, the name was changed to NYU Downtown Hospital. In 2005 the affiliation with the
NYU Medical Center
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ceased and the hospital reverted to the name New York Downtown Hospital. Following a full merger in 2013 with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, it was renamed NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.
![New York Downtown Hospital Staff Residence 69 Gold Street](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/New_York_Downtown_Hospital_Staff_Residence_69_Gold_Street.jpg)
In 2005 the hospital discharged nearly 12,000 inpatients. The hospital, an affiliate of
Weill Cornell Medical College
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, provides approximately 100,000 outpatient visits and 6,000 surgical procedures annually. In addition, as
Lower Manhattan
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’s only
emergency department
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, the hospital treats 32,000 patients annually in its emergency department and provides more than 5,000
ambulance
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transports.
In 2006 the hospital introduced a new
decontamination
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unit built as part of the $25 million
Lehman Brothers
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Emergency Room. The project was begun after the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001
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, when the hospital treated about 1,500 victims. Before construction of the new facility the hospital's small decontamination unit could handle about 20 patients an hour. The new unit can treat between 500 and 1,000 patients an hour. The design is based on the decontamination unit at
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
The Shaare Zedek Medical Center ( he, מרכז רפואי שערי צדק, ''Merkaz Refu'i Sha'arei Tzedek'') (lit. "Gates of Justice") is a large teaching hospital in Jerusalem established in 1902, It affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusal ...
in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
.
In May 2018, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at the former location of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.
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NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System
Teaching hospitals in New York City
Hospitals in Manhattan
Civic Center, Manhattan
1853 establishments in New York (state)
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