James Ewing Hospital was a 300-bed[1]Manhattan hospital notable for helping cancer patients.[2] The hospital opened in August of 1950 and later in 1968,Memorial Sloan Kettering took over running the hospital.[3][4]
PathologistJames Ewing (1866-1943), Cancer research pioneer, after whom the hospital was named.
Ewing's predecessor was "City Cancer Hospital onWelfare Island;" the First Avenue location opened in 1950.[5]
The Ewing building was a "ten-story structure on First Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Streets"[1] and James Ewing Hospital was "anaffiliate of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases."[6] an earlier name of Memorial Sloan Kettering.[7] The opening of the hospital happened on August 22, 1950 with 300 beds. In 1950, this was a "modern" hospital and named after James Ewing in honor of his cancer research.[7][8]
The hospital was named afterDr. James Ewing (1866-1943), who had pioneered in cancer research and was featured on the cover of a 1931 Time Magazine issue as "Cancer Man Ewing."[8][11] The hospital building, 1250 First Avenue inManhattan,[12] today is Memorial Sloan Ketterings's Arnold and Marie Schwartz Cancer Research Building.[13]
