| New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital | |
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| NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | South of Greenwich Village 170 William St.New York, NY 10038,Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°42′37″N74°0′18″W / 40.71028°N 74.00500°W /40.71028; -74.00500 |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Private |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Network | NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 180 |
| Speciality | Teaching |
| History | |
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| Construction started | 1981 In current location |
| Opened | 1853 (New York Dispensary for Poor Women & Children) 2013 (became a campus ofNewYork–Presbyterian) |
| Links | |
| Website | nyp |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
| Other links | Hospitals in Manhattan |
New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital is anonprofit,acute care,teaching hospital inNew York City and is the only hospital inLower Manhattan south ofGreenwich Village. It is part of theNew York-Presbyterian Healthcare System and one of the main campuses ofNew York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The Lower Manhattan Hospital operates 180 beds[1] and offers a full range ofinpatient andoutpatient services, as well as community outreach andeducation. It is a leader in the field ofemergency preparedness anddisaster management. The Hospital houses numerous medical andsurgicalsubspecialties with out-patient offices in both the 170 William St and 156 William St buildings. The Hospital serves the area's diverseneighborhoods includingWall Street,Battery Park City,Chinatown,SoHo,TriBeCa,Little Italy, and theLower East Side. It is the closestacute care facility to theFinancial District, to the seat of theCity government, and for some of New York's most populartourist attractions.
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The name and location of the hospital have gone through several changes sinceElizabeth Blackwell founded theNew York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children in 1853. In 1857 she opened the hospital under the name ofNew York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children[2] at East 7th Street near the present dayTompkins Square Park. As the hospital required more space it moved in 1858 toStuyvesant Square.[3] One of the hospital's administrators,Anne Daniel, who headed the hospital from about 1894 to 1944[4] wrote ahistory of the hospital in the 1930s, entitled′A cautious experiment.′ The history of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, which was serialized in theMedical Woman’s Journal (46) between May 1939 and December 1939.[5] Finally in 1981, merging with theBeekman Downtown Hospital, it relocated to its present site in Lower Manhattan under the name ofNew York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital.
In 1929Narcissa Cox Vanderlip became the president of the hospital, a position she held for thirty-seven years.[6][7]
In 1991, the hospital was renamed New York Downtown Hospital. In 1997, after three years of affiliation withNYU Medical Center, the name was changed toNYU Downtown Hospital. In 2005 the affiliation with theNYU Medical Center ceased and the hospital reverted to the nameNew York Downtown Hospital. Following a full merger in 2013 with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, it was renamedNew York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.[8]
In 2005 the hospital discharged nearly 12,000 inpatients. The hospital, an affiliate ofWeill Cornell Medical College, provides approximately 100,000 outpatient visits and 6,000 surgical procedures annually. In addition, asLower Manhattan’s onlyemergency department, the hospital treats 32,000 patients annually in its emergency department and provides more than 5,000ambulance transports.
In 2006 the hospital introduced a newdecontamination unit built as part of the $25 millionLehman Brothers Emergency Room. The project was begun after the terrorist attacks ofSeptember 11, 2001, when the hospital treated about 1,500 victims. Before the construction of the new facility, the hospital's smalldecontamination unit could handle about 20 patients an hour. The new unit can treat between 500 and 1,000 patients an hour. The design is based on the decontamination unit atShaare Zedek Medical Center inJerusalem.
In May 2018, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at the former location of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.[9][10]
Now in 2023 the hospital is the only one in lower Manhattan and has provided care to more than 130,000 patient visits. The hospital also started a new program where a person can visit digitally for patients with a less severe issue to make the process go faster than if they showed up to the emergency room.[11]
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