Lincoln Hospital

2824 Park Avenue | also 234 East 149th Street, 229 East 144th Street | Melrose | built 1972

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1976
Lincoln Hospital dedicates a new $220 million building in the South Bronx
Lincoln Hospital, which began in 1839 as a home for elderly Black New Yorkers and later ran a hospital at 141st Street and Southern Boulevard, dedicated this replacement facility in 1976, roughly two miles from the old site. Construction cost $220 million, and the complex spans five full city blocks, serving the whole South Bronx and parts of Upper Manhattan.
“In 1976, a new facility was dedicated about two miles from the "Old Lincoln," at a construction cost of 220 million dollars.”
Source: Wikipedia
2014
Lincoln reopens its emergency department after a $24 million expansion
In 2014 the hospital's Emergency Department reopened following a renovation and expansion that cost $24 million. With more than 144,000 visits a year, no other single-site emergency room in the city is busier, and only two in the nation see more patients. It is an adult Level I and pediatric Level II trauma center.
“In 2014, the facility's Emergency Department reopened after undergoing a $24 million renovation and expansion project.”
Source: Wikipedia

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