St. John's Riverside Hospital is a private, community hospital located in

Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is the List of municipalities in New York, third-most populous city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and the most-populous City (New York), city in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County. A centrally locate ...

. It was founded in 1869 as the first hospital in

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, and shares a location and history with the Cochran School of Nursing, which was founded in 1894 as the first nursing school in Westchester. The hospital was two primary locations in Yonkers, which is the result of its merger with Yonkers General Hospital in 2001.

History

St. John's Invalid Home was founded in 1869 by a group of women from St. John's Episcopal Church in Yonkers to tend to the poor of their parish. As the first hospital in

, it was incorporated as a non-profit institution in the early 1870s. First located at Warburton and Ashburton Avenues, the hospital moved to Woodworth Avenue and Locust Street in 1870, before relocating again to buildings on Ashburton Avenue donated by William and Eva Cochran in 1894. That year, the Cochran School of Nursing was established at the hospital as the first

nursing school Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

in Westchester County and one of the first in the United States. The school is affiliated with Mercy College and

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. The hospital constructed its current Andrus Pavilion on North Broadway in 1959, which rises 14 stories and accommodates 273 beds. In 1999, the hospital constructed a nursing home. It acquired a second location, the ParkCare Pavilion, after merging with Yonkers General Hospital in 2001, which today is an outpatient center. The additional Michael N. Malotz Skilled Nursing Pavilion was opened that year, which houses 120 beds. Today, the hospital contains a total of 407 beds, maintains a staff of 300 physicians, and is accredited by the

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and the

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. In 2002, the 50-bed Community Hospital of Dobbs Ferry was purchased. Now the Dobbs Ferry Pavilion of St. John's Riverside Hospital.

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Cochran School of Nursing
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