Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
2525 Kings Highway | Madison | built 1929
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- 1929
Brothers Albert and J. Dudley Fritz found Madison Park Hospital, mostly a maternity hospital
Doctors Albert R. Fritz and his brother J. Dudley Fritz found Madison Park Hospital in 1929, naming it for the neighborhood. It is known mostly as a maternity hospital. The hospital opens with 60 beds and later expands to 134.
“…founded in 1929 by Dr. Albert R. Fritz and his brother Dr. J. Dudley Fritz. It was mostly known as a maternity hospital.”
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- 1961
The hospital becomes the Hospital of the Jacques Loewe Foundation
By 1961 the former Madison Park Hospital goes by the name Hospital of the Jacques Loewe Foundation. Another name in its history is Madison Community Hospital of Adelphi College. The site's many changes of name later earned it the description "One Address, Many Hospitals."
“Madison Community Hospital of Adelphi College / Hospital of the Jacques Loewe Foundation (1961)…”
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- 1973
Community Hospital files for bankruptcy, and a state council later recommends closing it
The hospital, then called Community Hospital, files for bankruptcy in 1973. The New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council recommends in 1978 that it close. By 1992 it is listed as New York Community Hospital, affiliated with New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
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- 1997
New York Community Hospital affiliates with New York-Presbyterian Hospital
In 1997 the hospital, called New York Community Hospital, becomes affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The affiliation lasts until 2016. In 2018 the hospital begins a clinical collaboration with Maimonides Medical Center.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2022
New York Community Hospital is renamed Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
On March 25, 2022, the 134-bed hospital takes the name Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital to reflect its partnership with Maimonides Medical Center. In 2020 there had been speculation about a full merger of the two. The hospital offers kosher meals to its patients.
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