Doctor's Hospital Of Queens

Van Wyck Hospital was a private hospital located on Van Wyck Boulevard in Queens, NY and was among those ''New York City'' hospitals which passed newly tightened regulations enacted in 1936 "governing the physical equipment and the clinical and nursing standards."

''Van Wyck'' later changed its name and subsequently closed.

History

The hospital, equipped with "fifty beds for surgery and medicine," was subsequently known as ''Doctor's Hospital of Queens''. ''Doctor's'' was a partnership of two individuals "doing business as."

Controversies

A doctor sentenced to jail for perjury subsequently refused to reveal details of surgery he performed at ''Van Wyck Hospital'' on an 18-year-old girl whose weight had dropped from 110 to 67 pounds.

Another case at this hospital involved "an illegal operation" performed at ''Van Wyck'' on a police officer's wife, "mother of a boy, 14 an4 a girl, 12." The court continued despite a claim that the statute of limitations had expired and one of the doctors involved was dead.

References

Defunct hospitals in Queens
History of Queens, New York

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