Woodhull Medical Center
760 Broadway | also 720 Flushing Avenue | Bedford-Stuyvesant | built 1972
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- 1970
Ground is broken for Kallmann & McKinnell's Brutalist Woodhull hospital
Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller put the hospital forward in 1967, planning a modern facility where patients would have single-occupancy rooms, at a cost of $85 million. Ground was broken in 1970. Kallmann & McKinnell designed the building in the Brutalist style, with patient rooms along a central corridor and visitor corridors flanking the perimeter.
“Ground was broken in 1970 but due to budget issues the hospital was not opened until 1982, costing $308 million.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1982
Woodhull Hospital opens, twelve years after groundbreaking, at more than three times its first budget
Budget problems delayed the opening until 1982, and the final cost was $308 million. The hospital was meant to serve Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bushwick, Greenpoint and Bedford-Stuyvesant. It was named for Richard M. Woodhull, the original landowner of the area, on a suggestion from Victor Morales, a student at Intermediate School 318.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1986
Artist Keith Haring paints public murals in the hospital's lobby and ambulatory care department
In 1986 Keith Haring made murals for Woodhull Hospital, placing them in the lobby and in the ambulatory care department. They are public artworks inside a Brutalist municipal hospital that had opened only four years earlier.
“In 1986, artist Keith Haring created public murals in the lobby and ambulatory care department.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1992
Woodhull loses its accreditation, then regains it on appeal the same year
In 1992 the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations revoked the hospital's accreditation, saying it did not review enough surgical procedures to catch unnecessary surgery and mishaps. Administrators had been accused of rewriting critical internal analyses before the inspection. The city's Health and Hospitals Corporation appealed and corrected most deficiencies, and full accreditation was granted later that year.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2017
Woodhull becomes the first Brooklyn hospital to earn the baby-friendly designation
In 2017 Baby-Friendly USA, an initiative of the World Health Organization and UNICEF, gave Woodhull its baby-friendly designation, the first for a Brooklyn hospital. The hospital, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, focuses on preventing disease and promoting healthy lifestyles in North Brooklyn.
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