NY Downtown Hospital
170 William St.
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212-312-5000
Employees: 1,200+
CEO: Jeffrey Menkes
Website: http://www.downtownhospital.org
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New York Downtown Hospital delivers state-of-the-art healthcare with the intimate attention and compassion of a community hospital. As the closest acute care hospital to the 600,000 people who work and live in Lower Manhattan, the hospital's mission is to serve the people who comprise the diverse business and residential communities of Wall Street, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, Battery Park City and the Lower East Side.
Each year, the Hospital has more than 30,000 emergency visits, 146,000 outpatient visits, 10,000 inpatients, 5,300 outpatient surgeries and 2,400 new babies born. The hospital has a total of 180 beds.
New York Downtown Hospital is the only hospital serving lower Manhattan following the closure of St. Vincent's Hospital in 2010 and has seen a rise in emergency room visits since.
The hospital offers corporate and community services including Chinese Community Partnership for Health.
The Downtown Hospital is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System. The affiliation benefits the Hospital in many ways. It provides access to highly qualified specialists and cutting edge technology that would not normally be available to a small hospital.
Downtown Hospital also has affiliation with one of the premier orthopedic institutes in New York City: The Hospital for Joint Disease. Their cutting edge research capabilities and surgical expertise provides excellent care for bone or joint injured patients.
Downtown Hospital is an academic affiliate of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
In addition, the Emergency Department has affiliation agreements with two other hospitals. The first is New York Medical Center (Cornell), where it has affiliation with their renowned Burn Center and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The second is the Bellevue Trauma Center.
History
1853 - Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the first licensed woman physician in the United States, founds the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children.
1857 - Dr. Blackwell opens a hospital, The New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, near present-day Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The following year, The Infirmary moves to large quarters on Stuyvesant Square.
1905 - St. Gregory s Free Emergency Accident Hospital and Ambulance Station is founded by the Volunteers of America, and later named Volunteer Hospital.
1922 - After the September 1920 bombing of JP Morgan Company, Wall Street financiers create Broad Street Hospital, taking over Volunteer Hospital.
1932 - The Kate Depew Strang Clinic is founded by Dr. Elise Strang L'Esperance, one of Dr. Blackwell s first students. The Strang Clinic is the world's first specialized cancer treatment clinic and the site of the world's first cancer prevention program.
1937 - The Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic at The New York Infirmary opens.
1945 - St. Gregory s Free Emergency Accident Hospital and Ambulance Station merges with Broad Street Hospital to form Beekman Downtown Hospital.
1969 - New York Infirmary forms an affiliation with NYU Medical Center to strengthen teaching programs at both institutions.
1975 - FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group, bombs Fraunces Tavern, a meeting place for financiers and government officials for over 150 years. Four people were killed and 50 were wounded, many of whom came to the Hospital s emergency department for life-saving treatment.
1979 - New York Infirmary merges with Beekman Downtown Hospital and in 1981 relocates from Stuyvesant Square to its present location at 170 William Street in Lower Manhattan.
1991 - New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital affiliates with The New York Hospital and is renamed New York Downtown Hospital.
1993 - Within minutes of the explosion at the World Trade Center Towers, New York Downtown Hospital begins to receive hundreds of injured victims. The explosion kills 6, injures over 1,000, and forces more than 50,000 people to evacuate.
1994 - New York Downtown Hospital begins an affiliation with NYU Medical Center. In 1997, New York Downtown Hospital is renamed NYU Downtown Hospital.
2001 - NYU Downtown Hospital gains international recognition for its extraordinary response during the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The Hospital treats over 1,000 victims; offers refuge to an additional 450 people; provides care, prescriptions and over 350 meals to seniors in the community -- all despite the loss of water, electrical power, telephones/faxes, computers, steam and gas.
2002 - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proclaims March 11 as "NYU Downtown Hospital Day."
2003 - NYU Downtown Hospital breaks ground for the full reconstruction and expansion of its emergency center. The renovation will create a state-of-the-art emergency facility designed to meet the unique needs of Lower Manhattan. The new facility will be named The Lehman Brothers Emergency Center in recognition of a generous gift of $5 million from The Lehman Brothers Foundation.
2005 - NYU Downtown Hospital severs its ties to NYU Medical Center and shortly thereafter becomes a member of the prestigious NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. The Hospital reverts to its traditional name: New York Downtown Hospital.
2006 - New York Downtown Hospital opens a new Emergency Center. This new state-of-the-art emergency facility is double the size of the previous emergency room and can handle more than triple the capacity. Every patient area has been upgraded, including those for women, children, asthma and chest pain patients, and people in need of routine care. The new facility includes the largest decontamination unit in the city for responding to bio-terrorism, as well as other improvements to enhance the Hospital's ability to respond to both individual and community-wide emergencies.
Benefits
The hospital offers a competitive salary and benefits package.
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