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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Brooklyn Hospital


I was born in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Hospital. It's called the The Brooklyn Hospital Center now. It's part of New York-Presbyterian Medical System. The hospital was built in 1845. The history follows that the mayor realized there was a need for a hospital six years before it was built. Mayor Smith convened a public meeting to discuss the establishment of a hospital in Brooklyn. The meeting was held in February, 1845, and in May of that year, Brooklyn City Hospital (later renamed The Brooklyn Hospital) was incorporated by the state legislature.

The Brooklyn City Dispensary admitted its first patient on December 10, 1847. A frame house served as a hospital for the sick and the poor until 1852, when the first building opened. It was hailed immediately as "the last word" in hospital construction. It initially housed 160 patients.

The Brooklyn Hospital took on the role of caring for the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union Army when the Civil War broke out. The hospital care for soldiers during the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. In World War I, a floor of the West Pavilion with its 60 beds was set aside for the care of sick and disabled sailors.

In 1880 the first school of nursing in Brooklyn and the second in the New York state was opened.

Today, the Hospital Center is a 653–bed teaching institution that is a major healthcare resource. The Hospital Center is the Brooklyn academic and clinical affiliate of Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

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2 comments:

  1. Your posting about the neglected patient is incorrectly labeled as Brooklyn Hospital. That happened at Kings County Hospital. There IS a hospital in Brooklyn Called "The Brooklyn Hospital Center" but they have a much better track record!

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