Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
102-01 66th Road | Forest Hills | built 1953
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- 1953
Forest Hills General Hospital opens its doors on 66th Road
The hospital opened on August 13, 1953, under the name Forest Hills General Hospital. It would go on to carry four more names over the following decades, ending up as Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, a community and teaching hospital in the Northwell Health network with 312 beds.
“The hospital first opened on August 13, 1953, as Forest Hills General Hospital.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1963
A Blue Cross billing scandal closes Forest Hills General Hospital
The Queens District Attorney began looking into the hospital's finances in May 1963 after a former employee reported that its administrators were part of a scheme involving Blue Cross billing. The scandal forced the hospital to shut in November 1963, only ten years after it opened.
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- 1964
The hospital reopens as LaGuardia Hospital, named for Fiorello H. La Guardia and run by HIP
In 1964 the shuttered hospital came back as LaGuardia Hospital, named for Fiorello H. La Guardia and managed by HIP. It kept that name until 1996, when the North Shore health system acquired it and renamed it North Shore University Hospital at Forest Hills.
“In 1964, the hospital reopened as LaGuardia Hospital, now under the management of HIP.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
New York approves folding Forest Hills Hospital into Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Northwell Health announced in 2016 that the state had approved merging the hospital, called Forest Hills Hospital since 2006, with Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, with both run as divisions of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks. It then took the name Long Island Jewish Forest Hills. In 2017 it reported 16,500 inpatient discharges and more than 2,000 births.
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