Calvary Hospital is an American

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specializing in

hospice Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life b ...

palliative Palliative care (from Latin root "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Man ...

and end of life care, headquartered in

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, a

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. The hospital has a total of 225 beds.

History

Calvary Hospital was founded in 1899 and is operated in connection with the

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. The hospital was one of the first, and is still one of the largest, medical complexes focusing on end-of-life

care. In addition to its main facility in the

Morris Park, Bronx Morris Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its approximate boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are Neill Avenue and Pelham Parkway to the north, Eastchester Road to the east, the Amtrak Nort ...

it has had a 25-bed facility within the Lutheran Medical Center in

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since 2001. It also has various outreach programs. Calvary Hospital operates a third location, the Dawn Greene Hospice, a 10-bed facility located on the 15th Floor of Mary Manning Walsh Home (MMW) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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References

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History

Deaths of notable people

See also

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