Beth Israel Medical Center

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Beth Israel Medical Center was a large, full-service tertiary teaching hospital in New York City. Originally dedicated to serving immigrant Jews living in the tenement slums of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, it was founded at the turn of the 20th century as Beth Israel Hospital. As such, the hospital quickly became part of the social structure of the area. It existed in a couple of locations before settling at First Avenue and 16th Street facing Stuyvesant Square. Other campuses included the Beth Israel-Kings Highway Division in Brooklyn and Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at Union Square. It had a number of different affiliations with medical schools over the years as well as founding the still-active Beth Israel School of Nursing. It became known as Beth Israel Medical Center in 1965, during various expansion efforts such as purchasing Manhattan General Hospital the year prior. At its peak it had some 1,368 beds. Beth Israel Medical Center became a member of the Continuum Health...

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