NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
56-45 Main Street | also 140-07REAR Booth Memorial Avenue | Queensboro Hill | built 1957
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- 1957
The Salvation Army opens Booth Memorial Hospital in Flushing
After ground was broken on June 24, 1954, the Salvation Army dedicated its new Booth Memorial Hospital here on February 5, 1957, moving it from East 15th Street in Manhattan because Queens lacked medical facilities. The $4.8 million building opened with 210 beds. The Army's rescue home for women, where the hospital began in 1892, moved into a wing called the Perkins Pavilion.
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- 1986
Former Queens Borough President Donald Manes dies at Booth Memorial
Donald Manes, a former Queens Borough President, died at this hospital in 1986 of a self-inflicted knife wound. The hospital was then still Booth Memorial, run by the Salvation Army.
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- 1993
Booth Memorial becomes New York Hospital Queens
In 1992 New York Hospital in Manhattan bought Booth Memorial from the Salvation Army, and in May 1993 it took the name New York Hospital Queens. After New York Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital combined in 1997, the Flushing hospital joined their NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. In 1999 a modernization project added 200 beds.
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- 2015
The hospital is renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens
In February 2015 NewYork-Presbyterian said it would assume complete control of the Flushing hospital. The change took effect on July 1, 2015, when the name became NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens; it was the system's sixth campus and its first in the borough. It is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine.
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