Misericordia Hospital is a 3-block medical center in

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. that opened in 1887 in Staten Island, moved to

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in 1889, and moved to The Bronx in 1958. The hospital was renamed Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in 1985, acquired by Montefiore Medical Center in 2008 and renamed as their North Division, then renamed the Wakefield Division of Montefiore. Misericordia is a not-for-profit

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History

There are other hospitals that use the ''Misericordia'' name. This one originated well over a century ago. They share the word ''misericorde'' which ''the New York Times'' translates to English as ''mercy''.

Staten Island

"Six Roman Catholic Sisters of Misercorde with a capital of $1" opened ''Misericordia Hospital'' in 1887 in "a tumble-down old residence on Staten Island."

Manhattan

The hospital moved from Staten Island to Manhattan in 1889. The facility's mailing address was 531 East 86th Street, New York City in the orkville, Manhattanneighborhood.

The Bronx

In 1955 the hospital announced that it had purchased land in the Bronx and was beginning construction of a modern 3-block medical center. Their 531 East Eighty-sixth Street building in Manhattan was sold, via a real-estate agent, to "erect a tall apartment house on the site." The reported $9 million construction costs were higher than the $7,250,000 that had been announced 3 years prior.

Renamings

Beginning in 1985 the hospital underwent a series of name changes: * 1985: ''Our Lady of Mercy Hospital'' / ' * 2008: acquired by Montefiore Medical Center ** renamed as their North Division ** then renamed the Wakefield Division of Montefiore.

Affiliation

Beginning in 1963, ''Misericordia'' had "an

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agreement, whereby it supplies medical personnel to Fordham." In 1971 this led to ''Misericordia'' ''letting go'' "85 physicians and other personnel assigned to Fordham Hospital under an affiliation contract, because of what it described as a $1.4-million cutback by the city's Health and Hospitals corporation." Another ''affiliation'', this time with Lincoln Hospital, began in 1976. That same year, New York City's

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"questioned the large proportion of foreign-trained physicians on the Misericordia staff, in the belief that training in the United States was generally superior." In 1979 these doctors unionized.

Controversy

Since Lincoln Hospital's doctors were supplied by ''Misericordia'', and the latter, for religious reasons, "have never performed abortions," this created a conflict with the mayor's "policy to provide abortion services for poor women in the communities where they live."

References

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