Flushing Hospital Medical Center (also known as Flushing Hospital) is one of the oldest hospitals in New York City. It survived a 1999

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and subsequently affiliated first with the

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and then with the

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. The hospital is also currently affiliated with the

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to provide clinical rotations for the college's

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students.

History

Established in 1884, in 1951 the hospital celebrated the birth of its 5,000th baby. By 1993 Flushing Hospital was described as "an unaffiliated community hospital that is struggling financially." On that basis, the hospital affiliated with Preferred Health Network, then-described as "a network of hospitals and health centers based in Brooklyn." A

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, Flushing's nursing staff was particularly affected in early 2012 by financial difficulties, having been listed in 2011 as being among six NYC hospitals "in critical condition" - at the time it was part of the

. The hospital's original major building, constructed in 1913, was demolished in 1975.

Affiliations

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MediSys Health Network owns and operates

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and Flushing Hospital Medical Center. Its prior affiliations and management include the New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network.

Parsons Hospital Parsons Hospital was "a small proprietary hospital in Queens" that was transformed into one focused to serving a local largely immigrant population. The hospital, which opened in 1963, closed in 1988, two years after it "was purchased by Asian ...

became a division of ''Flushing''. the latter was acquired by New York Hospital in April 1996.

References

External links

New York Times article on Flushing Hospital and others nearby
Hospitals in Queens, New York Flushing, Queens Hospitals established in 1884 {{QueensNY-struct-stub