{{Short description|Defunct hospital in Manhattan, New York}} {{use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{use American English|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Manhattan General Hospital | org_group = | logo = | logo_size = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_relief = | coordinates = | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_map_size = | location = Manhattan | address = | region = | state = New York | country = US | healthcare = | funding = | type = | religious_affiliation = | affiliation = | patron = | network = | standards = | emergency = | helipad = | beds = | speciality = | opened = 1925 | closed = 1964 (merger) | demolished = | constructed = | former_names = | website = | other_links = List of hospitals in Manhattan | nrhp = | pushpin_label = | h1-number = | h1-length-f = | h1-length-m = | h1-surface = | metric-rwy = | h2-number = | h2-length-m = | h2-length-f = | h2-surface = }} '''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.
==History== Alfred A. Richman, who had opened a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" in 1925,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/06/09/archives/eviction-stay-won-by-sanitarium-head-supreme-court-grants-grace-to.html |title=EVICTION STAY WON BY SANITARIUM HEAD; Supreme Court Grants Grace to Dr. Richman in Contest With Warren Smadbeck. HARM TO PATIENTS FEARED Some Would Be Imperiled by Move, It is Contended--Marshal Seizes Furniture. |date=June 9, 1928}}</ref> subsequently "founded Manhattan General Hospital".<ref name=ARichman.obitNYT>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/11/obituaries/dr-alfred-richman-92-dies-founded-hospital-in-the-city.html |title=Dr. Alfred Richman, 92, Dies; Founded Hospital in the City |date=December 11, 1984}}</ref> The hospital was at one point located at Second Avenue and 18th Street in Manhattan, New York City; that building was once used by the Lying-in Hospital.<ref name=LyinGen.NYT1985>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/29/business/about-real-estate-conversion-of-a-hospital-to-apartments.html |title=Conversion of Hospital to Apartments |author=Alan S. Oser |date=March 29, 1985}}</ref> Later the hospital moved to 161 East 90th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
The first occupant of 161 East 90th Street was '''Pan American Hospital''', which was intended "to serve the Latin-American people through their own Spanish and Portuguese-speaking doctors and nurses."<ref name=PanAmHosPreIPL.NYT27>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/18/archives/work-on-hospital-nears-completion-panamerican-will-be-ready-for.html |title=WORK ON HOSPITAL NEARS COMPLETION; Pan-American Will Be Ready for Opening Oct. 17}}</ref> Creation of the hospital was encouraged by William Sharpe, "the first president of the Pan-American Medical Association." <ref>{{cite web |url=https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/39/1/article-pE10.xml |title=Eccentric neurosurgical virtuoso: the life and times of William Sharpe}}</ref> In less than two years after opening, Pan American Hospital was in court regarding whether or not they would be able to continue operation.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/07/26/archives/new-hospital-here-to-fight-eviction-action-to-oust-panamerican.html |title=NEW HOSPITAL HERE TO FIGHT EVICTION; Action to Oust Pan-American Clinic Set for Hearing in Municipal Court Today. 103 PATIENTS AFFECTED Dispossess Proceeding Started by Estate of Former Patron--Gifts Totaling $100,000 Reported. Action to Be Contested. Coler Praises Clinic's Work. |date=July 26, 1929}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' editorialized that Pan American Hospital "should be continued"<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/08/07/archives/panamerican-hospital-institution-has-done-good-work-and-should-be.html |title=PAN-AMERICAN HOSPITAL.; Institution Has Done Good Work and Should Be Continued. OUTBREAKS DUE TO HEAT. Prison Uprisings and Wars Usually Occur in Summer. THE WILLEBRANDT ARTICLES Opinions Vary as to Their Value and Advisability of Printing Them. The Law and Justice. |author1=Gardner L. Harding |author2=Frank Moore |author3=Claude L. Benner |author4=Mrs. T. M. Sullivan |author5=M. E. Cummiskey |author6=Albert E. Mills |date=August 7, 1929}}</ref> since "through no fault of its own management" the hospital faced financial problems.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/08/08/archives/the-panamerican-hospital.html |title=the Pan-American Hospital |date=August 8, 1929}}</ref> It closed in 1930.<ref name=PanAmHos.NYT34>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/09/27/archives/hospital-building-sold-in-yorkville-beth-david-buys-9story.html |title=HOSPITAL BUILDING SOLD IN YORKVILLE; Beth David Buys 9-Story Structure in Ninetieth Street From the Barber Estate. |date=September 27, 1934}}</ref>
Afterward, Manhattan General occupied the 9-story building at 161 East 90th Street until 1934, when the building was sold to '''Beth David Hospital'''. Beth David also bought an adjacent site to construct an 11-story building.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/09/29/archives/hospital-plans-11story-building-manhattan-general-buys-site.html |title=HOSPITAL PLANS 11-STORY BUILDING; Manhattan General Buys Site Adjoining Present Home in East 90th Street. |date=September 29, 1934}}</ref> The roots of Beth David Hospital can be traced to the incorporation on November 29, 1886, of the Yorkville Dispensary for Women and Children, located at 246-248 East 82nd Street. In 1912 they moved to 1822-1828 Lexington Avenue and 113th Street.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/05/15/archives/5000-cheer-enright-at-hospital-exercises-40000-raised-in-20-minutes.html |title=5,000 CHEER ENRIGHT AT HOSPITAL EXERCISES; $40,000 Raised in 20 Minutes of Beth David Open-Air Dedication. |date=May 15, 1922}}</ref> Beth David Hospital celebrated for an entire week in June 1913 after having moved to a newly built facility.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=Open Beth David Hospital - Ceremonies at New Building to be Continued All Week |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/06/02/100627171.html?pageNumber=13 |access-date=October 9, 2015 |date=June 2, 1913 |page=13}}</ref> In 1934 Beth David purchased<ref>{{cite web |website=JTA.org (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) |url=https://www.jta.org/1934/10/17/archive/beth-david-hospital-opens-drive-tonight |title=Beth David Hospital Opens Drive Tonight |date=October 17, 1934}}</ref> the 161 East 90th Street building.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/09/27/archives/hospital-building-sold-in-yorkville-beth-david-buys-9story.html |title=HOSPITAL BUILDING SOLD IN YORKVILLE; Beth David Buys 9-Story Structure in Ninetieth Street From the Barber Estate. |date=September 27, 1934}}</ref> Beth David stayed at the location until 1957, when it relocated to 321 East 42nd Street.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/03/04/archives/drhauswirth-honored-1200-attend-dinner-for-beth-david-hospital.html |title=DR.HAUSWIRTH HONORED; 1,200 Attend Dinner for Beth David Hospital Veteran |quote=$100-a-plate dinner |date=March 4, 1956}}</ref> Beth David was renamed to Grand Central Hospital on July 3, 1959,<ref name=NYTBD>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |title=Hospital is Renamed - Beth David at 321 E. 42d St. Becomes Grand Central |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/04/79701117.html?pageNumber=8 |access-date=October 9, 2015 |date=July 4, 1959 |page=8}}</ref> before closing by mid-1963.<ref name=BethDavHos.Walsh>{{cite book |last1=Walsh |first1=James J. |title=History of Medicine in New York - Three Centuries of Medical Progress |date=1919 |publisher=National Americana Society |location=New York, N.Y. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jiswAAAAYAAJ&pg=1}}</ref>{{rp|pp. 782–783}}
Manhattan General merged with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in 1964<ref name=ARichman.obitNYT/> and closed; the MGH buildings became co-op apartments.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Theodore |title=Beth Israel Buys General Hospital - The Manhattan to be Taken Over Sept. 1 - City Seeking Narcotics Center Pact - No Changes For Staff - Purchase Is Called Step for Establishment of Medical Center on Lower East Side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/21/the-manhattan-to-Be-taken-over-sept-1city-seeking-narcotics-center-pact.html |access-date=October 12, 2015 |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 21, 1964 |page=31}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc1911801/pdf/bullnyacadmed00075-0053.pdf MGH's 1930s use of the 161 East 90th Street building]
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