St. Barnabas Hospital (Bronx)
hospital in Bronx, NY, United States
St. Barnabas Hospital is a non-profit teaching hospital founded in 1866. The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. It is a Level II Trauma Center and is a major clinical affiliate for clinical clerkship of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.
History
St. Barnabas Hospital, originally known as the Home for the Incurables, was founded in 1866 by Reverend Washington Rodman of the Grace Episcopal Church in West Farms, Bronx. The hospital became the first chronic disease hospital, was housed in a modest frame house, and could serve 33 patients. The hospital moved to its present location on Third Avenue in 1874 and by 1911 could accommodate 300 beds. Support for the non-profit hospital came from New York Society including Cornelius Vanderbilt (who served on the hospital's Board of Managers), John Jacob Astor, Theodore Roosevelt, and Frederick Law Olmsted. Between 1926 and 1931, the hospital added three new buildings.
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