Jackson Heights Hospital

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
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
Geography
LocationJackson Heights, Queens, New York, United States
Organization
Care systemPrivate
FundingNon-profit hospital
TypeCommunity
History
Former name(s)Physicians Hospital
Opened1935
Links
ListsHospitals in New York
Other linksList of hospitals in Queens

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.

History

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]

References
  1. Norimitsu Onishi (November 10, 1996). "Neighbors Mourn Loss Of Hospital In Queens: Health Care Shift In Jackson Heights". The New York Times.
  2. Charisse Jones (October 13, 1996). "Underused Jackson Heights Hospital to Close". The New York Times.
  3. Steven Lee Myers (May 13, 1993). "Takeover of Flushing Hospital Leads to a Review". The New York Times. Mr. Pendola's network, which began at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick in 1989 and now includes Jackson Heights Hospital
  4. "Jules Blankfein, 89, A Hospital Founder". The New York Times. June 3, 1989.
  5. "Ailing Hospital Gets a Manager". The New York Daily News. October 9, 1989.
  6. "Little Neck will close as a hospital on Dec. 3"
  7. John Holusha (November 17, 1996). "Hospitals' Use of Satellite Centers Is Growing". The New York Times.
  8. Edward Hudson (June 17, 1977). "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting". The New York Times.


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