Bayley Seton Hospital
75 Vanderbilt Avenue | Clifton | built 1930
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- 1930
The Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital rises in a Mayan Revival style
The current main building went up in the 1930s as the Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital, part of a federal push under Franklin Roosevelt to build hospitals for the military, veterans and the public. Five to seven stories tall and designed in a Mayan Revival style, it ran inpatient, outpatient, emergency, surgical and rehabilitation services until 1981, drawing patients from Fort Wadsworth, Fort Hamilton and other nearby bases.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1951
The Marine Hospital is renamed a U.S. Public Health Service Hospital
In 1951 the federal marine hospitals took the name U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals. The Staten Island hospital, the largest in the system by annual admissions, took on new classes of patients but kept treating merchant seamen until the system was disbanded in 1981. Seamen fell below half of admissions starting in 1965 and made up 21 percent at the end.
- 1981
The Sisters of Charity take over the federal hospital and rename it Bayley Seton
Federal ownership ended in 1981, and the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul received the property. Their new name, Bayley-Seton Hospital, honors Elizabeth Ann Seton, born Elizabeth Bayley in 1774 and the first native-born American saint. Her father, Dr. Richard Bayley, had been New York City's Health Officer and chief physician at the Staten Island Quarantine Station.
- 2000
Saint Vincent's takes over Bayley Seton and closes about half its services
In 2000 the Sisters of Charity handed Bayley Seton to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers. Money troubles came almost at once, and the hospital lost roughly half its services, including its emergency room, pharmacy, surgery and most clinics. Staff fell from 990 in 2000 to about 550 in 2004, after Saint Vincent's filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
“Bayley saw around half its services closed, including its emergency room, pharmacy, surgery, and most medical clinics.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2008
The Salvation Army plans senior housing in the main hospital, but the money never comes
In April 2008 Richmond University Medical Center closed the HIV/AIDS center and the adult and pediatric clinics it ran at Bayley Seton. That year the Salvation Army bought a seven-acre piece of the campus for a planned Kroc Center recreation complex and took an option on the rest of the land, including the main hospital, which it meant to turn into affordable senior housing. The organization failed to raise the funds for the project.
“…as well as an option to purchase the remaining land including the main hospital and transform it into affordable senior housing. However, the organization failed to raise funds for the project.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
The old hospital plays Arkham Asylum on the TV series Gotham
From 2014 to 2019 the TV series Gotham filmed interior and exterior scenes set in Arkham Asylum at the hospital. Amazon's Hunters and Fallout also shot on the campus, as did films including The Adjustment Bureau, Salt and Terrifier 2. From 2012 the home health insurer Centers Plan for Healthy Living also occupied the building.
“From 2014 to 2019, the TV series Gotham used the hospital as a setting for interior and exterior scenes set in Arkham Asylum.”
Source: Wikipedia
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