Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers (also known as Saint Vincent's or SVCMC) was a healthcare system in

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, anchored by its flagship hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. St. Vincent's was founded in 1849 and was a major teaching hospital in the

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neighborhood of

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. It closed on April 30, 2010, under circumstances which triggered an investigation by the

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. Demolition began at the end of 2012 and was completed in early 2013. Other hospital buildings were converted into luxury condos and a new luxury building, Greenwich Lane, has replaced the St. Vincent's building.

History

Operation

For more than 150 years, St. Vincent's Hospital served a wide range of New Yorkers, especially in its neighborhood of Greenwich Village, including poets, writers, artists, homeless people, the poor and the working class. It treated victims of the cholera epidemic of 1849 and of the Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549. It was the designated provider for New York and New Jersey members of the U.S. Department of Defense Health Plan. Over time it expanded to become a major medical and research center. It maintained its connection to the

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tradition, and was sponsored by the Bishop of Brooklyn and the President of the Sisters of Charity of New York.

19th century

St. Vincent's was the third oldest hospital in

after The New York Hospital and Bellevue Hospital. It was founded as a medical facility in 1849 and named for

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, a seventeenth-century French priest, whose religious congregation of the Daughters of Charity inspired the founding in

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in 1809 of the Sisters of Charity by St.

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, a native New Yorker and

convert. St. Vincent de Paul is the patron saint of charitable societies. In 1817, four

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from Emmitsburg, Maryland at the request of Bishop John Connolly established an orphanage in

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. As the congregation grew the sisters opened more orphanages and began to staff parochial schools. In 1846, the Sisters in New York incorporated as a separate entity from the Sisters of Charity based in Maryland. They set up a charity hospital to meet the demands of the poor and disadvantaged. It began as a thirty-bed hospital in a small brick house on East 13th Street. St. Vincent's served the poor as one of the few charity hospitals in New York City. The hospital opened on November 1, 1849, during a cholera epidemic under the direction of Sister M. Angela Hughes, sister of Bishop John Hughes. With almost every room occupied by patients, the sisters ate, slept, and rested in a single room or had their beds at the ends of the halls. A typhoid epidemic in 1852, filled the hospital to capacity. After outgrowing those quarters in 1856, the sisters moved to a former orphanage at the then undeveloped corner of West 11th Street and Seventh Avenue. In 1859, a fair was held at the

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to raise funds to renovate the former orphanage and erect two additional wings. In 1870, the hospital introduced its first horse-drawn ambulance. In October 1892, it launched its School of Nursing. The Sisters admitted patients regardless of religion or ability to pay. The doctors from Bellevue Hospital worked at the hospital. St. Vincent's also operated a soup kitchen. According to an 1892 ''

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'' article, St. Vincent's was distinguished from other hospitals in the city by now for its large number of tramps and other destitute persons". The poet

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got her middle name from the hospital, where her uncle's life was saved in 1892 after he was accidentally locked in the hold of a ship for several days without food or water.

20th century

The school received its certification from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1905, one of the first such schools to be so recognized. In 1911, St. Vincent's Ambulance, manned by hospital interns, responded to the

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, where the attendants watched helplessly as those trapped in the fire jumped to their deaths onto the street below. In 1912, St. Vincent's received and treated victims after the sinking of the , while mourning the loss of attending physician Francis Norman O'Loughlin, who died in the disaster. A plaque honoring his memory stood in the hospital's main entrance as a reminder of his dedication and sacrifice. In 1968, under William Grace, Director of Medicine at St. Vincent's, and his associate John A. Chadbourn, the hospital established the nation's first Mobile Coronary Care Unit (MCCU) following an example in Ireland. It was configured on a white over red 1968 Chevrolet Step-Van and utilized a portable battery-powered defibrillator/monitor; a battery-powered electrocardiograph, I.V. kit, resuscitation/oxygen kit, and a drug kit. The success of the St. Vincent's MCCU project inspired the development of the "HeartMobile" in

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and similar programs in

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, and

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in 1970. In 1975, the Puerto Rican extremist nationalist group FALN bombed

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in the

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area. St. Vincent's paramedics and responders from multiple other EMS agencies transported patients to St. Vincent's Hospital for trauma care. In the 1980s, as the gay population of

and New York began succumbing to the AIDS virus, St. Vincent's established the first

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ward on the East Coast and second only to one in San Francisco, and became "Ground Zero" for the AIDS-afflicted in NYC. The hospital "became synonymous" with care for AIDS patients in the 1980s, particularly poor gay men and drug users. It became one of the best hospitals in the state for AIDS care with a large research facility and dozens of doctors and nurses working on it.

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protested at the hospital one night in the 1980s due to its Catholic nature. They took over the emergency room and covered crucifixes with condoms intending to raise awareness and to offend Catholics. Instead of pressing charges, the sisters who ran the hospital decided to meet with the protesters to better understand their concerns. One of the great physicians at the hospital was Dr. Ronal Ollstein. He pioneered burn surgery in New York City. First at Harlem Hospital and then at St. Vincents. He was known for his famous original surgical knot, dubbed The Ollstein "O". He died of cancer. (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/ronald-ollstein-obituary?id=27134519https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/ronald-ollstein-obituary?id=27134519)

21st century

The SVCMC network was formed in 2000, when St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, formerly the St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center of New York, merged with the Catholic Medical Centers of

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and Queens and Sisters of Charity Healthcare on

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, which included St. Vincent's Hospital (Staten Island), Mary Immaculate Hospital in Queens, St. John's Queens Hospital, Saint Joseph's Hospital in Queens, St. Mary's Hospital of Brooklyn, and Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island. The mergers were intended to reduce costs by improved efficiency and elimination reductant administration, however, it also brought increased debt with the member hospitals.Clarke, Kevin. "The Last Days Of St. Vincents: A venerable New York institution closes its doors.", ''America'', July 05, 2010
/ref> St. Vincent's was the primary admitting hospital for those injured in the

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on the World Trade Center. A physician who worked at St. Vincent's, Sneha Ann Philip, was declared missing on September 10, and later declared as the 2,751st victim of the collapse of the towers. Pictures of the missing collected in such large numbers that the hospital dedicated an entire outside wall to protect them. The Wall of Hope and Remembrance was maintained for years. Many of the hospitals closed after September 2001. In 2003 St. Clare's Hospital became an affiliate and was renamed St. Vincent's Hospital (Midtown), but it closed on August 1, 2007. St. Mary's Hospital of Brooklyn closed on September 23, 2005; Mary Immaculate and St. John's closed on March 1, 2009, after being sold to

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in 2006.

Closing

In 2005, under financial pressure from its charity involvements and rising costs, the SVCMC system filed for

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. The system launched an aggressive reorganization effort, selling or transferring its money-losing facilities and focusing development on its main hospital, which allowed it to emerge from bankruptcy in the summer of 2007. In the name of modernizing and restructuring, it also announced plans to build a new Manhattan hospital across the street, with a planned opening set for 2011. Part of the redevelopment was to include construction of a billion-dollar residential condominium by the Rudin real estate family. The plan was a source of contention with several neighborhood groups, such as the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the

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. The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the residential components of the plan in July 2009, but by then residential development financing was no longer available because of the

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. The New York State Department of Health has said there was no need for an acute care hospital in Greenwich Village. St. Vincent's announced on January 27, 2010, that its financial situation had soured further and desperate measures would be required to keep the hospital open. Senators, city council members and congressional representatives all became involved in attempting to save the hospital. A Greater New York Hospital Association spokesman pointed to health budget cuts in Albany. The hospital began discussions with Continuum Health Partners (the parent corporation of

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, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary) and with Mount Sinai Hospital to consider taking ownership of the hospital but both declined. On April 6, 2010, the board of directors voted to close inpatient care services at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, and to sell its outpatient services to other systems. The emergency room stopped accepting ambulances on April 9, 2010, and delivered its last baby on April 15, 2010. On April 19, 2010, more than 1,000 staff, representing approximately one-third of the hospital workforce, received notice of lay-off. On April 14, 2010, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan filed for

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bankruptcy protection. The petition, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, showed liabilities of more than $1 billion. Saint Vincent's largest unsecured creditor was the

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which is a federal pension insurance agency that was insuring the "Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers Retirement Plan" which was a defined benefit pension plan. The pension plan on September 14, 2010, which was the date of termination for the plan had 9581 participants. On April 30, 2010, the emergency room at St. Vincent's closed, officially shuttering the hospital after 161 years. Hospital administrators said that the vote to close came after a six-month-long effort to save the financially troubled institution, but August 21, 2011, prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office were reported to have launched an investigation to determine whether administrators intentionally ran St. Vincent's into the ground. The remaining parts of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers including its nursing homes, home health agency, St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, and U.S. Family Health Plan, were to continue to operate without interruption, but these entities were sold to other providers' systems.

Post-closure

In October 2011, the former main campus at 7-15 Seventh Avenue was sold to Rudin Management Company for $260 million.

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represented the seller, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Eyal Ofer's Global Holdings assisted the buyer in the sale. At the time of its closure, St. Vincent's occupied a large real-estate footprint in Greenwich Village; it consisted of several hospital buildings and a number of outpatient facilities, had more than 1,000 affiliated physicians, including 70 full-time and 300 voluntary attending physicians, and trained more than 300 residents and fellows annually. As a Catholic hospital, St. Vincent's was officially sponsored by the

and the

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. St. Vincent's was the last Catholic general hospital in New York City. The St. Vincent de Paul stained glass window from the hospital was donated to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in

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Speaker

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said that the plan also calls for a reduction in the number of new apartments, funds for affordable housing and arts education in local schools.

Medical education

SVCMC served as one of two academic medical centers of

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. It offered a well-respected residency and fellowship program, and also served as a clerkship facility for students of medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and occupational therapy: ;Residencies :

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pediatrics Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, Adolescence, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many o ...

, family practice, combined internal medicine & pediatrics,

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nuclear medicine Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactivity, radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, ''radiology done inside out'', ...

obstetrics and gynecology Obstetrics and gynaecology (also spelled as obstetrics and gynecology; abbreviated as Obst and Gynae, O&G, OB-GYN and OB/GYN) is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics (covering pregnancy, childbirth, and t ...

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pathology Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatme ...

, PM&R,

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

child psychiatry Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial fact ...

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, transitional ;Fellowships :

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, critical care,

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, interventional endoscopy,

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;Allied health programs : CPR,

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, EMT,

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technology Medical staff residency training records and verifications have become available through the Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS) Closed Residency program records.

Former facilities

St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan

St. Vincent's Hospital was a 758-bed

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teaching hospital, at Seventh Avenue and Greenwich Avenue on the border of

and Chelsea. It included: *

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and Critical Care Center *Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center *Level III Neonatal ICU *The Pancreas & Biliary Center *Comprehensive Cancer Center (now Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West Side Campus) *Comprehensive HIV Center *Full service

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*Inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and addiction services

Other

* St. Vincent's Hospital (Westchester), a 138-bed behavioral health facility, Harrison, NY (now part of St. Joseph's Medical Center,

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), including: **Behavior Health Residential Services, a 500-bed community housing and case management program based at Bayley Seton Staten Island, with units in the five boroughs and Westchester * Four

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including: ** Bishop Mugavero Center for Geriatric Care, Brooklyn ** Holy Family Home, Brooklyn ** St. Elizabeth Ann's Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, Staten Island ** Monsignor Fitzpatrick, Queens * Pax Christi Hospice, Staten Island *The Edward and Theresa O’Toole Medical Services Building, now Lenox Health Greenwich Village * SVCMC Home Health Agency, a comprehensive

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agency serving all five

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* Kennedy Medical Offices, a 24/7 urgent care and multi-speciality center located at JFK International Airport. The center was over 23,000 square feet and offered primary care, urgent care, occupational health services, radiology, orthopedics, optometry, psychology, physical & occupational therapy, pain management and other services. Kennedy Medical staff also provided 24/7 paramedic

state-certified first responder services to the Port Authority to supplement the PA Police EMS division. Kennedy Medical Offices treated dignitaries, politicians, Hollywood stars, and VIP's from around the world (including security details for the President of the U.S. and the Pope as well as heads of many other nations). * Several outpatient medical and substance abuse treatment centers in Manhattan,

, Westchester, and

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Notable programs

St. Vincent's HIV Center

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and

in the 1980s, St. Vincent's HIV Center was one of the oldest, most experienced and most renowned HIV treatment programs in the US. It provided coordinated outpatient and inpatient primary care and case management services to HIV-positive adults, pregnant women, and children, and also provided HIV prevention services, AIDS education programs, HIV clinical research, and support groups. In addition, SVCMC developed the unique Airbridge Project, which coordinates care for HIV-positive patients who make frequent trips to

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. Father Mychal Judge ministered to Catholics dying of AIDS in the early years of the epidemic.

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features the hospital in his play ''

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'', and it is also alluded to by Larry Kramer in his play '' The Normal Heart''.

Chinese Outreach Program

Due to its proximity to

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, two miles away, SVCMC had close ties to the Chinese community throughout its history. In an effort to reach this underserved population, the hospital opened an independent Chinese-speaking inpatient unit, which employed physicians and nurses who spoke

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and

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. They also opened an outpatient facility in Chinatown, provided a free shuttle service from Chinatown to the hospital, and offered Chinese-focused healthcare services such as

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and Chinese traditional meals.

Cystic Fibrosis Program

One of the most comprehensive and renowned CF programs in the city, the Saint Vincent's

Cystic Fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner that impairs the normal clearance of Sputum, mucus from the lungs, which facilitates the colonization and infection of the lungs by bacteria, notably ''Staphy ...

therapy program offered care for patients with

cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner that impairs the normal clearance of Sputum, mucus from the lungs, which facilitates the colonization and infection of the lungs by bacteria, notably ''Staphy ...

and attracted patients from around the region.

Perinatal Hospice Center

The Perinatal Hospice was founded in 2007 to meet the needs of parents who have discovered early in pregnancy that their baby is nonviable outside the womb, and yet chose to carry their baby to term.

John J. Conley Department of Ethics

Closely linked to the

Bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...

Institute at

, The Conley Ethics Department was a leader in the study of clinical medical ethics and spirituality in healthcare. Chaired by Dr
Daniel Sulmasy
the department endeavored to integrate the

biopsychosocial model Biopsychosocial models (BPSM) are a class of trans-disciplinary models which look at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio- environmental factors. These models specifically examine how these aspects play a role in a range o ...

of healthcare within the SVCMC system.

Elizabeth Ann Seton Chapel

Because the hospital was founded and manned through much of its history by nuns, its hospital chapel was a primary focus of the hospital architecture, and was symbolically nested at the very center of the hospital. The chapel, named for St.

, offered daily Mass and refuge for patients and hospital staff.

Hospital Pet Care Program

Responding to the unique needs of an urban population, SVCMC instituted a program to help patients provide for their

pet A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular pets are often considered to have attractive/ cute appearances, inte ...

s during their stay in the hospital. Animals were walked or fed in a patient's home, or were relocated to care facilities or short-term foster homes.

Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Comprehensive Cancer Center provided prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of a variety of malignancies, with a focus on preventing inpatient stays through careful outpatient monitoring. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and stem cell transplants were provided as day procedures along with 24-hour emergency care.

References

External links

''New York Times'' article on Saint Vincent's

''U.S. News & World Report'' article on SVCMC Healthcare in the Chinese community

Global Holdings - St. Vincents West Village

Levine, Mark. "St. Vincent’s Is the Lehman Brothers of Hospitals", ''New York Magazine'', October 17,2010
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