Sigismund Schulz Goldwater (February 7, 1873 – October 22, 1942)
[''Deaths of Fellows'' (1943) Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 19(3), 224.] was a physician and hospital administrator.
Biography
Goldwater earned his medical degree in 1901, was appointed superintendent of
Mount Sinai Hospital in 1903, and later its director in 1917.
He also was named Commissioner of Health in
New York City in 1914 by
Mayor John Mitchel,
and during his term he was criticized for trying to enact public health measures that, during the backdrop of
World War I, were considered too closely related to German philosophies.
[''Dr. Goldwater and the Dogs'' (1914) Life, October 1, 1914.][''Sigismund Schulz Goldwater'' (1914) Life, December 17, 1914.]
Dr. Goldwater consulted on hospital administration and construction, and was instrumental in the founding of the hospital complex on
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is an island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough of Queens, on Long Island, to the east. Running from the equivalent of East 46th to 85 ...
(known then as Welfare Island). The
Welfare Hospital for Chronic Disease was renamed
Goldwater Memorial Hospital shortly after he died in 1942. It merged with
Bird S. Coler Hospital
Coler Specialty Hospital is a chronic care facility on New York City's Roosevelt Island that provides services such as rehabilitation and specialty nursing. The hospital was formed in 1996 by the merger of two separate chronic care hospitals ...
in 1996 to form
Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital.
The Goldwater Campus closed in 2010 to make way for the
Cornell Tech campus, and the remainder of the facility was renamed
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler.
Awards
*Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine (1908)
References
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1873 births
1942 deaths
Physicians from New York (state)
Commissioners of Health of the City of New York