St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
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, is a 1,076-bed, full-service community and tertiary care hospital serving New York City’s Midtown West
Midtown Manhattan
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, Upper West Side
Upper West Side
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and parts of Harlem
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Its two hospital components which merged operations in 1979 are nearly 50 blocks apart on Manhattan's west side:
- St. Luke's Hospital (including Woman's Hospital) at 114th and Amsterdam, a level-I trauma center 40.80545°N 73.96175°W
- Roosevelt Hospital at 59th and 10th Avenue, a level-2 trauma center 40.76998°N 73.98762°W
The hospital center is a member of the Continuum Health Partners
Continuum Health Partners
Continuum Health Partners is a hospital network in New York City.It consists of:*Beth Israel Medical Center*St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center*New York Eye and Ear InfirmaryIt was formed initially in 1997 by Beth Israel and St. Luke's-Roosevelt...
, a nonprofit hospital system.
St. Luke's
St. Luke's was founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, pastor of the EpiscopalEpiscopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
Church of the Holy Communion
Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings
The Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings are historic Episcopal church buildings at 656-662 Avenue of the Americas at West 20th Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City....
. St. Luke's first opened in 1858 at 54th Street
54th Street (Manhattan)
54th Street is a two-mile-long, one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan.-West Side Highway:*The route begins at the West Side Highway . Opposite the intersection is the New York Passenger Ship Terminal and the Hudson River...
and Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The section of Fifth Avenue that crosses Midtown Manhattan, especially that between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious shops and is consistently ranked among...
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In 1896 it moved to 114th Street. It is across the street, to the east, from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
’s campus and to the South it is flanked by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York...
. Their Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street historic hospital building was designed by prominent socialite architect Ernest Flagg
Ernest Flagg
Ernest Flagg was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts style. He was also an advocate for urban reform and architecture's social responsibility.-Biography:...
. The chapel of that hospital has stained glass and is the work of the same architect.
Woman's Hospital
Woman's Hospital was founded by doctor J. Marion SimsJ. Marion Sims
J. Marion Sims, born James Marion Sims was a surgical pioneer, considered the father of American gynecology. Modern historians argue about his legacy as Sims used slaves as experimental subjects.-Early career:...
with financial backing from Sarah Platt Doremus
Sarah Platt Doremus
Sarah Platt Doremus was noted for her philanthropy.-Biography:She was the daughter of Elias Haines, a merchant of New York, and her mother was the daughter of Robert Ogden, a distinguished lawyer of New Jersey...
, who ultimately became president of the Hospital. Sims had developed a revolutionary approach to treating vesico-vaginal fistulas in child birth. The Hospital was first located in a rented house at Madison Avenue
Madison Avenue (Manhattan)
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and 29th Street. Another doctor Thomas Addis Emmet, who served at the hospital, would publish the first comprehensive textbook in English on gynecology.
In 1867 it moved to a new location on Park Avenue that is now the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
The Waldorf-Astoria is a luxury hotel in New York. It has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York City. The first, designed by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh, was on the Fifth Avenue site of the Empire State Building. The present building at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan is a...
that had been the burial ground for New York in the 1832 cholera
Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...
outbreak. 47,000 coffins were dug up.
In 1906 it moved to 110th Street and Amsterdam. In 1953 it was merged with St. Luke's Hospital, forming St. Luke's Hospital Center. Finally, in 1965, it was moved to 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, just across the street from St. Luke's.
Roosevelt Hospital
Roosevelt Hospital (named for its benefactor James H. RooseveltJames H. Roosevelt
James Henry Roosevelt was an American philanthropist who, by bequest, founded Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He was born in New York to Catherine and James Christopher Roosevelt, a grandson of Jacobus Roosevelt, the founder of the Hyde Park branch of the Roosevelt family. James H...
who donated money for the first building in 1871) is located on 10th Avenue and 59th Street
59th Street (Manhattan)
59th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan runs east-west, from York Avenue to the West Side Highway, with a discontinuity between Ninth Avenue/Columbus Avenue and Eighth Avenue/Central Park West for the Time Warner Center. Although it is bi-directional for most of its length, the...
, two blocks west of Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a major landmark and point of attraction in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South , and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. It is the point from...
. The current 13-story Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed facility was built in 1990. The original hospital (including its emergency room where John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
was pronounced dead on arrival
Dead on arrival
Dead on arrival or D.O.A. is a term used to indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance, often in the form of first responders such as emergency medical technicians, paramedics, or police...
) was on the same block but faced Ninth Avenue
Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)
Ninth Avenue / Columbus Avenue is a southbound thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Traffic runs downtown along its full length...
. Much of the original hospital including the emergency room were torn down to make way for two 49-story apartment buildings—One Columbus Place Tower I. and II. The oldest remaining component of the hospital is the William J. Syms Operating Theater that had a glass roof built in 1892. It was named for a gun merchant who donated money for it. Its last operation was in 1941 and is now a New York City Landmark. It is still free standing even as the tower surrounds it.
Emergency departments
The Emergency Departments at both sites, staffed by 40 physicians board certified in emergency medicine and seven in pediatric emergency medicine, offer 24-hr specialized services for victims of sexual assaults. Both New York City Emergency Rooms have a 24-hour stroke team and Heart Attack (MI) Team. The St. Luke's Emergency Room has a 24-hour on-call cardiac catheterization lab for patients having heart attacks to immediately open up the clogged artery. The Emergency Department hosts a residency in Emergency Medicine with 42 physicians; a fellowship in global health led by Dr. John Cahill, staff physician for the New York Philharmonic, and Dr. Ramona Sunderwirth and affiliated with the Columbia School of Public Health; and a fellowship in emergency ultrasound. The Department has two board certified Clinical Toxicologists available for consultation 24 hours. Physicians in the Department are frequently featured on the major local and national television network news programs discussing medical issues affecting the community.Residency programs
St. Luke's-Roosevelt sponsors 30 accredited residency training programs in every possible field of medicine but not Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Urology, Neurology, Family Medicine, Otolaryngology, nor fellowships in Rheumatology, Burn Surgery, Vitreoretinal Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology, Ocular Pathology, Multiple Sclerosis, Uveitis, Allergy Immunology, Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, and many others. The Department of Medicine trains 158 residents and an additional 39 fellows; one of the largest programs in New York State and in the top 10 largest nationally. Each program enjoys full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the institution itself is accredited for the maximum 5 year cycle. The Internal Medicine Training Program is one of the most progressive programs in the country utilizing unique strategies to ensure that residents can learn from every patient. These innovations include a "drip system" for distributing admissions and no overnight call anywhere in the training program. In addition, the department limits the number of patients that can be carried by an intern to no more than 11. 83% of the programs in NY, NJ and all of New England still allow interns to carry 12 patients. The program also has its own "Simulation Lab" for training residents and the Program Director, Dr. Ethan Fried is the principal investigator for the New York State Near Miss Registry which is sponsored by the New York State Department of Health as a risk free, anonymous reporting system to record near miss medical errors and the barriers that kept these errors from reaching patients.Management
The late Richard F. DainesRichard F. Daines
Richard Frederick Daines, M.D. was an American doctor and served as the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health from 2007 through 2010...
, M.D., the former President and CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center served as New York State Commissioner of Health under Eliot Spitzer.
Frank Cracolici is the President and CEO of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Popular references
- Roosevelt Emergency Room is notable for being the site of John LennonJohn LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
's death but was demolished in the early 1980s. - "St. Lukes" is also mentioned in the song "ReneeRenee (song)"Renee" is a song by rap group Lost Boyz from their second studio album Legal Drug Money and the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack. It samples the Janet Jackson song "Funny How Time Flies "...
" by the Lost Boyz as the hospital where 'Renee' was taken where she was shot and subsequently died.