St Barnabas Hospital (Bronx)
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St. Barnabas Hospital is a
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founded in 1866. The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of
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in
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. It is a
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and is a major clinical affiliate for
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of the
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.


History

St. Barnabas Hospital, originally known as the Home for the Incurables, was founded in 1866 by Reverend Washington Rodman of the Grace Episcopal Church in
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. The hospital became the first chronic disease hospital, was housed in a modest frame house, and could serve 33 patients. The hospital moved to its present location on
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in 1874 and by 1911 could accommodate 300 beds. Support for the non-profit hospital came from New York Society including
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(who served on the hospital's Board of Managers),
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, and
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. Between 1926 and 1931, the hospital added three new buildings. In 1947, the hospital changed its name to St. Barnabas Hospital. In 1969, St. Barnabas broke ground for a six-story West Wing with 188 beds, a cafeteria, and kitchen. St. Barnabas Nursing Home was founded in 1972, and is located on the hospital's campus at 2175 Quarry Rd. In 1983, Dr. Ronald Gade was promoted from head of radiology to be the hospital's president. He worked to implement more efficient patient care by reducing staff size, discouraging long hospital stays, and increasing income from Medicaid. His implementations at St. Barnabas challenged the medical establishment by creating a managed-care revolution in American medicine. By the late 1990s, the hospital won two city contracts worth almost $450 million, one to provide doctors for Lincoln Hospital in the
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, the other to care for prisoners on
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. Also in the 1990s, the hospital received state designation as a Level 2 Trauma Center and created an AIDS Center and Stroke Center. The hospital is a major clinical teaching site for the
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. In 2016, the hospital also became an affiliate of
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to recruit underrepresented minorities into medicine, increase medical care in underserved communities, and boost the number of primary care physicians.


Notable personnel

* Dr. Irving S. Cooper – Developed cryothalamectomy as a surgical technique for primary control of tremor in patients with
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during his employment (1954–1977). * Dr. Humayun Chaudhry - Completed residency at St. Barnabas. Became Commissioner of Health Services for
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. He later became CEO of the
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. * Dr. Richard F. Daines – Served as Senior Vice President for Professional Affairs and Medical Director. After leaving St. Barnabas Hospital, he became the president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (now
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) in Manhattan. Later, he became the New York State Health Commissioner. * Victor M. Pichardo – Vice President for Community and Government Affairs. He was previously a
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member.


Deaths of notable people

* Bryant Baker (1881–1970) sculptor * Emanuel Balaban (1895–1973) pianist"Emanuel Balaban of Juilliard Staff," ''The New York Times'' (April 18, 1973), p. 50. bituary/ref> * Reginald Bathurst Birch (1856–1943) illustrator * Benjamin Feigenbaum (1860 – 1932) Yiddish socialist, newspaper editor, translator, and satirist * Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz (2002-2018) victim of gang violence killed on June 20, 2018, by members of the Dominican gang, Trinitario, in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx *
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(1939-2014), James Timothy Shaw, R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter * Abraham Hirschfeld (1919–2005), real estate investor, Broadway producer *
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See also

*
List of hospitals in the Bronx This is a list of hospitals in the Bronx, sorted by hospital name, with addresses and a brief description of their formation and development. Hospital names were obtained from these sources. A list of hospitals in New York (state) is also avail ...
* Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center


References


External links


Official website
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