North Central Bronx Hospital

3424 Kossuth Avenue | Norwood | built 1972

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1976
October 25
North Central Bronx Hospital opens as a $100 million, 17-story Brutalist city hospital
The municipal hospital opened on October 25, 1976, in a 17-story Brutalist tower beside Montefiore Medical Center in Norwood. It cost $100 million, and at opening a $12.5 million yearly contract had Montefiore supplying some of its medical services. Today NYC Health + Hospitals counts it among its 11 acute care hospitals.
“The $100 million Brutalist architecture facility opened on October 25, 1976.”
Source: Wikipedia
1977
The hospital starts a birth center program that includes midwives
A year after opening, North Central Bronx began a birth center program in 1977, with midwives as part of it. The birth center was renovated in 2013 and reopened to patients in 2014.
Source: Wikipedia
2020
May 5
The hospital opens a COVID-19 intensive care unit as it races to add 120 ICU beds
During the COVID-19 pandemic the 215-bed hospital began a rapid build-out of 120 more intensive care beds. The first 20 of them opened on May 5, 2020, as an ICU set aside for COVID-19 patients.
“The first 20 of the additional beds were opened as a COVID-19 specific ICU on May 5, 2020.”
Source: Wikipedia

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