Jackson Heights Hospital was a "small community hospital" in

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. It opened in 1935 as ''Physicians Hospital'', was sold and renamed in the 1990s, and subsequently closed. The hospital was torn down, and the site is now a public school. Jackson Heights Hospital was a "private,

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hospital" that was operated by

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, functioning as a subsidiary of

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, in the neighborhood of

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. A Junior High School, I.S. 230, was built on the hospital's site two years after the hospital closed and was torn down.

History

Physicians Hospital was opened in 1935 within a building that occupied a single

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, and was originally staffed by nine physicians. One of them, financier and philanthropist

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, "served for many years as its president and as a director." In 1989, under different ownership, ''Physicians'' had "not met its payroll in more than six weeks" (and had other debts too),

was given the task to assume operational responsibility. By 1990 the hospital was operating under the name Jackson Heights Hospital. Jackson Heights Hospital closed eight years after

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. It was seen as "an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City." Some of this was attributed at the time to the opening nearby of "specialized treatment centers" (some of them operated as "hospital satellite centers"). Two decades prior to the closing, the ''New York Times'' had headlined a "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting." Months before the hospital closed, "the 83-bed facility had 20 beds filled."

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