Jackson Heights Hospital | |
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Wyckoff Heights Medical Center | |
Geography | |
Location | Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, United States |
Organization | |
Care system | Private |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Type | Community |
History | |
Former name(s) | Physicians Hospital |
Opened | 1935 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
Other links | List of hospitals in Queens |
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "small community hospital" [1] in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. [2] It opened in 1935 as Physicians Hospital, was sold and renamed in the 1990s, and subsequently closed. [2] The hospital was torn down, and the site is now a public school.
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "private, nonprofit hospital" that was operated by MediSys Health Network, [3] functioning as a subsidiary of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn. [2] A Junior High School, I.S. 230, was built on the hospital's site two years after the hospital closed and was torn down.
Physicians Hospital was opened in 1935 within a building that occupied a single city block, [1] and was originally staffed by nine physicians. One of them, financier and philanthropist Jules Blankfein, "served for many years as its president and as a director." [4]
In 1989, under different ownership, Physicians had "not met its payroll in more than six weeks" (and had other debts too), MediSys Health Network was given the task to assume operational responsibility. [5] By 1990 the hospital was operating under the name Jackson Heights Hospital. [1]
Jackson Heights Hospital closed eight years after Parsons Hospital. [1] It was seen as "an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City." [6] Some of this was attributed at the time to the opening nearby of "specialized treatment centers" (some of them operated as "hospital satellite centers"). [7] Two decades prior to the closing, the New York Times had headlined a "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting." [8] Months before the hospital closed, "the 83-bed facility had 20 beds filled." [2]
Mr. Pendola's network, which began at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick in 1989 and now includes Jackson Heights Hospital