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 by ...

and

palliative care Palliative care (derived from the Latin root , or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Wit ...

, 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 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

Companies based in the Bronx Hospices in the United States Catholic hospitals in North America Hospitals established in 1899 Hospitals in the Bronx Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Morris Park, Bronx {{Bronx-struct-stub

History

Deaths of notable people

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