Manhattan General Hospital
[ is a defunct hospital that also used the name ''Manhattan Hospital'' and relocated more than once, using buildings that serially served more than one hospital, beginning in the 1920s.
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History
Alfred A. Richman
Alfred A. Richman (c. 1892 - December 8, 1984) was "an orthopedic surgeon and an honorary trustee of Beth Israel Hospital"
who "founded Manhattan General Hospital
Manhattan General Hospital is a defunct hospital that also used the name ''Ma ...
, who had opened a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" in 1925, subsequently "founded Manhattan General Hospital."Lying-In
Lying-in is the term given to the European forms of postpartum confinement, the traditional practice involving long bed rest before and after giving birth. The term and the practice it describes are old-fashioned or archaic, but it used to be co ...
moved uptown, and ''Manhattan General Hospital'' moved in. And when Manhattan General
went uptown" the building became still another medical facility: a drug-abuse treatment center.Beth David Hospital
Beth David Hospital was one of a series of medical services that owned and operated the 1926-built 9-story building at ''161 East Ninetieth Street'' in Manhattan. Their purchase of the building facilitated plans by the prior occupant, Manhattan ...
facilitated purchasing an adjacent site to construct an 11-story building.
''Manhattan General'' merged with Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Mount Sinai Beth Israel is a 799-bed teaching hospital in Manhattan. It is part of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and ...
in 1964[ and closed; the ''MGH'' buildings became co-op apartments.]
References
External links
MGH's 1930s use of the 161 East 90th Street building
Defunct hospitals in Manhattan
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