Jackson Heights Hospital
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "small community hospital" in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. It opened in 1935 as Physicians Hospital, was sold and renamed in the 1990s, and subsequently closed. The hospital was torn down, and the site is now a public school.
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "private, nonprofit hospital" that was operated by MediSys Health Network, functioning as a subsidiary of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
A Junior High School, I.S. 230, was built on the hospital's site two years after the hospital closed and was torn down.
History
Physicians Hospital was opened in 1935 within a building that occupied a single city block, and was originally staffed by nine physicians. One of them, financier and philanthropist Jules Blankfein, "served for many years as its president and as a director."In 1989, under different ownership, Physicians had "not met its payroll in more than six weeks", MediSys Health Network was given the task to assume operational responsibility. By 1990 the hospital was operating under the name Jackson Heights Hospital.
Jackson Heights Hospital closed eight years after Parsons Hospital. It was seen as "an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City." Some of this was attributed at the time to the opening nearby of "specialized treatment centers" but the actual cause is SOCIALISM. Two decades prior to the closing, the New York Times had headlined a "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting." Months before the hospital closed, "the 83-bed facility had 20 beds filled."