Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian (MSCH or CHONY) is a women's and children's hospital at 3959 Broadway, near West 165th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of

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. It is a part of

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and the

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. The hospital treats patients aged 0–21 from New York City and around the world. The hospital features a ACS verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and is named after financial firm

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, which largely funded its construction through

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. The hospital is affiliated with the

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, and many of its physicians are faculty members of the college.

History

The hospital has nearly 250 years of history in treating children, tracing its roots to the establishment of Columbia University's – then King's College – Department of Pediatrics in 1767. Initially founded as Babies Hospital, it was established in 1887 in a Brownstone on 55th Street and Lexington Avenue. At the time of its opening, New York City's hospitals only had 27 beds catering to infants. In 1929, the hospital moved from its

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site to

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to become part of the Columbia–

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Medical Center. The hospital underwent various expansions throughout the years and, during the planning of the new building, the old hospital had 168 beds and six operating rooms.

The Babies Hospital

The Babies Hospital, which was New York City's first dedicated hospital for children, was founded in 1887 by Drs.

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and Julia McNutt and three members of the board of New York Infirmary, Jeannie Smith, Isabella Satterthwaite, and Isabella Banks. Soon after its opening, Babies Hospital adopted this as its guiding principle: "The mission of the Babies Hospital is to relieve mental and physical distress, and even though the death rate is increasing thereby, a case is never refused admission because it is hopeless." Since its founding, Babies Hospital physicians have helped shape the field of modern pediatrics and established numerous medical subspecialties.

1887–1900

The hospital, which initially had only women resident physicians, had 30 beds for sick infants and children up to three years old; malnutrition was the most common diagnosis. Its early leaders focused on milk sterilization, proper nutrition, and sanitary practices. In 1887, L. Emmett Holt was appointed medical director. Under his leadership, Babies Hospital became the leading pediatric hospital of its time. 2019 2 - signage for NYP MSCH in NYC

Martha Wollstein, MD, the first fully specialized pediatric perinatal pathologist practicing exclusively in a North American children's hospital, became the pathologist of record at Babies Hospital as of 1892. Babies Hospital was also the first hospital to use neonatal incubators in the U.S.

1900–1929

In 1900, Babies Hospital affiliated with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to help train new doctors in pediatrics. In 1900, the Rockefeller family helped to fund the construction of a new Babies Hospital at its original site. That 10-story building still stands today as Children's Hospital North. In 1903,

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall (September 22, 1874 – July 31, 1964) was a prominent pediatric physician specializing in cellular pathology. In 1901, she discovered that Hodgkin's disease was not a form of tuberculosis, by noticing the presence ...

, one of the first female physicians who discovered the blood cell disorder characteristic of Hodgkin's disease, completed an internship in pediatrics at Babies Hospital. In 1922, Babies Hospital physicians established the first pediatric radiology service. Babies Hospital retained an independent corporate identity until it was wholly merged into Presbyterian Hospital on Dec. 31, 1943. The new facility in northern Manhattan had 204 beds for children up to 12 years of age. The New York Times referred to the new Babies Hospital as "the last word in hospital design and equipment," mainly because of revolutionary features such as private and shared patient rooms, playrooms, and a roof garden.

1930–1991

From 1930 to 1960,

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, MD, was chief of pediatrics at Babies Hospital. Under his leadership, the hospital was one of the first in the country to develop programs in neonatal care, pediatric surgery, radiology, neurology, hematology-oncology, and psychiatry. As the director of pediatrics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he assembled a department of noted pediatric subspecialists. These included Dorothy Hansine Andersen (pathology), Hattie Alexander (infectious disease), William Silverman (neonatology), John Caffey (radiology), and James Wolff (Hematology-Oncology). In 1933, Hattie Elizabeth Alexander, MD, was appointed as an adjunct assistant pediatrician at Babies Hospital. During her tenure at the hospital, she developed a cure for influenza meningitis, which reduced the mortality rate to 20 percent in children and infants. Dr. Alexander was also the first woman elected president of the American Pediatric Society. In 1936, Donovan McCune, an attending physician at Babies Hospital, first described a rare genetic disorder later known as

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. In 1940,

Katharine Krom Merritt Katharine Krom Merritt (9 January 1886 in Stamford, Connecticut – 5 August 1986 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American physician specializing in pediatrics. The Kasabach–Merritt syndrome Kasabach–Merritt syndrome (KMS), also known as hema ...

and Haig Haigouni Kasabach, pediatricians at Babies Hospital, first described a case of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome in an infant. In 1949, Conrad M. Riley and Richard Lawrence Day identified

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, a nervous system disorder affecting children of Eastern European Jewish descent mostly. In 1953, Babies Hospital anesthesiologist

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, MD, created an easy scoring method for predicting infant health, now known as the "Apgar score." The Apgar score measures five body functions to determine the need for life-saving assistance within a minute of birth and remains the international pediatric standard for assessing newborn health. James Wolff, MD, was a founding member of the Children's Cancer Group, the first cooperative cancer treatment consortium in the United States, and also collaborated with Dr. Vincent Freda to discover the therapy for Rh disease. In 1959, Baby's hospital physicians developed the sweat test. In 1968, the hospital once again expanded and erected a new adjacent building. The new building doubled the size of the hospital and is now known as the "Central Building" of MSCH.

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was described in 1972. In 1984, Dr. Eric Rose performed the first successful pediatric heart transplant at Babies Hospital.

1992–present

In the early 1990s, the hospital performed a renovation of its pediatric intensive care unit. The renovation was funded by Morgan Stanley. Dr. Driscoll, a neonatologist, had directed the neonatal intensive care unit since 1971. In 1992, Driscoll was named chairman and remained chair until he retired in 2007. In 2000, investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter gifted NewYork-Presbyterian more than $55 million to build the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Children's Hospital at 165th Street and Broadway adding on to the Babies and Children's Hospital. In 2003, the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian opened. In 2009, MSCH made national news when they were able to remove and replace six organs and cut out a tumor in 7-year-old Heather McNamara. The surgery took 23 hours. In 2013, the hospital installed a new pirate-themed

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ner. It was installed by GE and designed to reduce the fear and anxiety of children getting a CT scan at the hospital.

About

In 2020, NewYork-Presbyterian was the top-ranked children's hospital in the New York metro area in the 2020-2021 rankings by U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals". In 2019, the hospital was ranked in all ten pediatric specialties. NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital was named a Level 1 Children's Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons in 2019. NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is a New York State-designated Regional Perinatal Center, a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has 269 beds - including 100 medical/surgical beds, 41 pediatric intensive care beds (including 14 cardiac intensive care beds), and 50 neonatal intensive care beds.

Services

* Pediatric ECMO: NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital's pediatric

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(Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, which provides heart-lung support) program is one of five programs in the world designated as a Platinum Center of Excellence by the

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(ELSO) for Excellence in Life Support. The ECMO program is provided in either the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). * SCID Specialty Care Center: NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is one of a few New York State–designated Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) Specialty Care Centers. A specialty care center is a healthcare facility established to provide treatment and services to children identified by the newborn screening laboratory. * Center for Autism and the Developing Brain: The Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, located at NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center provides services to patients and families affected by autism. The 11,000-square-foot center was created with $11 million in donations from New York Collaborates for Autism, Jim and Marilyn Simons, Autism Speaks, and the Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation. * Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center: In 2013, Debby and Peter A. Weinberg donated more than $7 million to help establish the Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center. The center provides patient education and helps patients transition from pediatric to adult care when they turn 21.

Research

Pediatric research at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is conducted through the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. The Department of Pediatrics has received more National Institutes of Health research grants than any other pediatric program in the New York metro area. The physician-researchers at the hospital have made significant advancements in the field of pediatrics, including performing the first successful pediatric heart transplant, identification of cystic fibrosis, and the creation of the Apgar score. NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is a member of the Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) Clinical Network to aid in the development of new therapeutics and best practices for the care of patients with food allergies. The FARE Clinical Network consists of 33 Centers of Excellence that develop best practices for the care of patients with food allergies; serve as sites for clinical research; contribute to the development of the FARE Patient Registry and food allergy biorepositories to support food allergy research.

Sloane Hospital for Women

The Sloane Hospital for Women is the

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and

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service within

and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (officially known as Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irvin ...

(P&S) in

. It was originally founded in 1886 with Columbia P&S as a training and treatment center for obstetrics. It has now provided over 100 years of obstetrical care. The hospital is located within Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

Rankings

As of 2020 Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and

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have placed nationally in all 10 ranked pediatric specialties by ''U.S. News & World Report''.

In popular culture

* Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital was featured in Season 2 Episode 2 of ''

NY Med ''NY Med'' is a medical documentary series which premiered on ABC on July 10, 2012. It follows the medical staff and patients of Columbia University Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (all three ...

''. 19-year-old Chris Molnar from South Brunswick need a heart transplant to replace his LVAD and received one at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. Molnar was originally brought to Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at RWJ but was transferred to MSCH when the hospital could not manage his complex heart condition. * Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital was featured in Season 1 Episode 2 of the Netflix series ''

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''. 7-year-old Sadie Gonzalez from Queens, NY is faced with a brain disorder that causes her to have constant seizures. After preliminary treatments at MSCH failed, Sadie went to neurologists at nearby

Kravis Children's Hospital Kravis Children's Hospital (KCH) at Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), Mount Sinai is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located at the Mount Sinai campus in Manhattan, New York City, New York (state), New York. The hospi ...

for treatment.

References

External links

* of MSCH
Morgan Stanley Foundation
webpage for MSCH

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