Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

3959 Broadway | also 180 Ft Washington Avenue | Washington Heights | built 1930

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

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  1. 1929

    Babies Hospital leaves Lexington Avenue and moves uptown to join Columbia-Presbyterian

    Babies Hospital began in a brownstone at 55th Street and Lexington Avenue, started by the physician sisters Sara and Julie McNutt, and was replaced there in 1902 by an eight-story, 80-bed building for children up to age 3. In 1929 the hospital left Lexington Avenue; its patients and staff relocated uptown and the hospital joined the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

    Source: Internet Archive

  2. 1935

    Dorothy Andersen becomes assistant pathologist at Babies Hospital in the Columbia-Presbyterian center

    Denied a surgical residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester because she was a woman, Andersen joined Columbia's pathology department, and in 1935 she became assistant pathologist at Babies Hospital. She began collecting the hearts of infants born with cardiac defects, and in the mid-1940s the surgeons developing open-heart operations turned to her for help, drawing on that collection and her knowledge. The National Library of Medicine dates her recognition of cystic fibrosis as a disease to 1938 and credits her team with creating its first diagnostic tests.

    Source: Internet Archive

  3. 1939

    Hattie Alexander of Babies Hospital reports a 75 percent cure rate for infants with influenzal meningitis

    Alexander came to Babies Hospital as a resident at Rustin McIntosh's invitation and stayed there for the rest of her career, becoming its lead microbiologist. After the Rockefeller Institute developed an anti-pneumonia serum, she reported in 1939 that 75 percent of infants with influenzal meningitis were cured. With Grace Leidy she later helped cut the disease's death rate from nearly 100 percent to under 25 percent.

    “Alexander reported a cure rate for infants of 75% with influenzal meningitis in 1939.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1994

    Babies Hospital renames itself the Babies & Children's Hospital

    In 1994 the hospital took the new name Babies & Children's Hospital, acknowledging that it was treating children as well as babies and toddlers. By the time Columbia's newsletter ran its history in 2003, the patient age limit was twenty.

    Source: Internet Archive

  5. 2003

    Morgan Stanley's $60 million helps create the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

    Morgan Stanley says its support for NewYork-Presbyterian, going back more than 50 years, includes $60 million to create the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in 2003. The firm calls it the only hospital in Manhattan devoted entirely to children's care and credits its employees with volunteering there since 1973.

    Source: morganstanley.com

  6. 2009

    Surgeons remove six organs from a 7-year-old, cut out a tumor and put the organs back in a 23-hour operation

    At Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, surgeons removed six organs from seven-year-old Heather McNamara, cut out a tumor and then replaced the organs. The operation took 23 hours, and the 2009 case drew national news coverage for the hospital.

    “In 2009, MSCH made national news when they were able to remove and replace six organs and cut out a tumor in 7-year-old Heather McNamara.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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