Beth Israel Petrie Division
10 Nathan D Perlman Place | also 281 1st Avenue | Gramercy | built 1910
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- 1929
Beth Israel moves into its new 500-bed hospital facing Stuyvesant Square
Beth Israel Hospital moved on March 12, 1929, into a new building where First Avenue meets 16th Street, across from Stuyvesant Square. It had 500 beds and gave patients of every income private rooms rather than wards. The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies helped pay for the construction, and the old building became an old-age home, the Home of Old Israel.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1965
Beth Israel Hospital is renamed Beth Israel Medical Center
The hospital took the name Beth Israel Medical Center on March 10, 1965. The change followed its 1964 purchase of Manhattan General Hospital, a 455-bed facility across Stuyvesant Square that ran a large drug addiction treatment program. That site later became the Morris J. Bernstein Institute of Beth Israel Medical Center.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1992
The hospital names its Nathan D. Perlman Place division for the Petries
Beth Israel Medical Center names its 16th Street campus the Milton and Carroll Petrie Division, honoring a couple whose contributions total more than $21 million. Milton Petrie, a clothing retailer and Beth Israel trustee, had made the hospital's largest single gift at that time, $10 million, in 1986.
Source: archives.icahn.mssm.edu
- 2016
Mount Sinai announces a plan to replace the 16th Street hospital with a 70-bed one
Mount Sinai announced a downsizing of Beth Israel on May 25, 2016. The plan called for a new hospital of just 70 inpatient beds several blocks away, with a full emergency room, after which the main 16th Street hospital would shut and be sold. In 2021, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the city, Mount Sinai reversed course.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2023
Mount Sinai announces it will close Beth Israel, citing 20 percent capacity
On September 15, 2023, Mount Sinai announced plans to close its Beth Israel hospital on 16th Street in stages. A spokesperson said it was running at 20 percent capacity and had lost $1 billion over the last decade. Assembly Member Harvey Epstein said the hospital had been bled dry by the earlier closing of its maternity ward and cardiac unit.
Source: cbsnews.com
- 2024
The state grants conditional approval for Beth Israel's closure
On July 25, 2024, the state Department of Health gave Mount Sinai Beth Israel conditional approval to close, about two weeks after a July 12 closing goal had stalled over a pending lawsuit and the missing approval. The conditions included agreements between nearby hospitals for inpatient care and a round-the-clock primary and urgent care clinic open at least three months after closure. Mount Sinai also had to reach an agreement with NYC Health + Hospitals to invest in expanding Bellevue Hospital's emergency department and psychiatric emergency programs.
Source: ny1.com
- 2025
Mount Sinai Beth Israel closes its doors after 135 years
Mount Sinai Beth Israel closed on the morning of Wednesday, April 9, 2025, after an appeals court had rejected a community group's bid to keep it open. Officials said the hospital was losing about $100 million a year. It had been designed for 600 beds but in recent years had dropped to about 100 patients.
Source: abc7ny.com
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- Beth Israel Medical CenterWikipedia
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