Schwarzman Animal Medical Center
510 East 62nd Street | also 511 East 61st Street | Lenox Hill | built 1960
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- 1960
Construction starts on a $4 million Animal Medical Center on East 62nd Street
Work started in January 1960 on a $4 million building for the Animal Medical Center, set on East 62nd Street close to the East River. The League had voted in 1959 to take the name Animal Medical Center, after it grew into a veterinary medical center of national stature.
Source: amcny.org
- 1962
The new Animal Medical Center building opens with laboratories and operating suites
The new East 62nd Street building opened to the public in 1962, with modern laboratories, operating suites and sophisticated medical equipment. The hospital describes the opening as the start of a new era in veterinary medicine, and through the 1960s and 1970s it grew its veterinary staff from 20 to 70 and added an emergency service open 24 hours a day.
Source: amcny.org
- 1983
The Animal Medical Center launches a postgraduate course in clinical veterinary medicine
In 1983 the Animal Medical Center started an intensive postgraduate course in clinical veterinary medicine. The center also began to sponsor regular lectures and seminars, and it started programs to train senior veterinary students, visiting veterinarians and animal health technicians, marking itself out as an institution of higher learning.
Source: amcny.org
- 2023
Helen Irving becomes president and CEO as a large renovation is under way
In 2023 Helen Irving became president and chief executive of the Animal Medical Center, at a time when the hospital was in the middle of a large renovation and expansion. The work was aimed at meeting growing demand and newer technologies in animal care.
“In 2023, Helen Irving took on the role of President and CEO as the hospital was undergoing a large renovation and expansion…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
A new surgical institute triples surgical capacity in the hospital's first expansion phase
Ground was broken on the expansion in 2021. In January 2024 the hospital finished its first phase when the Denise and Michael Kellen Institute for Surgical Care opened, adding more than 7,000 square feet and tripling surgical capacity. The institute has five new operating rooms along with a minor procedure room, a new central sterile center and a recovery room that keeps dogs apart from cats.
Source: amcny.org
- 2025
A new nine-floor tower doubles patient capacity and opens a new ICU
In April 2025 the hospital completed the second phase of its expansion, a new tower with nine floors that doubled patient capacity. It houses a new Intensive Care Unit, a Medical-Surgical Unit, an Avian & Exotic Pet Medicine service, and an education and conference center. The hospital stayed open seven days a week throughout construction.
Source: amcny.org
- 2025
The $125 million, 83,000-square-foot transformation of the hospital is completed
In December 2025 the hospital announced the completion of a four-year, 83,000-square-foot expansion and renovation costing $125 million. The final phase brought a new Emergency Room and new space for cardiology, radiology, ophthalmology, neurology and internal medicine. Turner Construction and Perkins&Will worked on the project, which the hospital called its first renovation of this scale in 60 years.
Source: amcny.org
Further reading
- Schwarzman Animal Medical CenterWikipedia
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