Victory Memorial Hospital was a 254-bed medical facility.
It was announced in 2006 that they're closing;
[ they were acquired by ]SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (Downstate) is a public medical school and hospital in Brooklyn, New York. It is the southernmost member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and the only academic medical center for health e ...
in 2009 and renamed ''SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge''.
History
''Victory Memorial'' was a not-for-profit, voluntary hospital.[ Most of the hospital's "complex of dun-colored buildings at the southeastern edge of ]Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and ...
" were built in 1927,Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
location.
Decades ago, the families whose children were born therein were largely Irish and Italian; before closing, they were "more likely to be Chinese or Russian" or "speak Urdu, Tagalog, Arabic and Spanish."[
In the 1960s, ''Victory Memorial'' built a new wing and added 64 beds, with recognition given for "increasing hospital facilities in Brooklyn."
On June 25, 2021 ]Maimonides Medical Center
Maimonides Medical Center is a non-profit, non-sectarian hospital located in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Borough Park, in the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Maimonides is b ...
broke ground for a new 15,000 square foot, free standing Emergency Department at Victory. The event was seen WABC-7, WPIX-11 and News12.
Incidents
* Two patients were murdered in the hospital by the son of one of them in 1999.
* The driver and a bystander died when "a tank truck delivering liquid oxygen exploded outside" the hospital. A year-long investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board
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discovered "a complex, explosive chemi cal reaction, lasting a second or less" described as a "series of events never before observed."
* H.I.V.-Tainted blood given "during emergency ulcer surgery."[
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See also
* List of hospitals in Brooklyn
This is a list of hospitals in Brooklyn, sorted by hospital name, with addresses and a brief description of their formation and development. Hospital names were obtained from these sources.
A list of hospitals in New York State is also availab ...
References
Defunct hospitals in Brooklyn
Hospitals established in 1927
Maternity hospitals in the United States
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
History of women in New York City
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