Bellevue Hospital

See also: Bellevue (homonymy)

The Bellevue Hospital Center is a Hôpital of New York to the the United States. It is located on the First Avenue at Manhattan at the level of the 28e street.

Founded in 1736, it is the oldest American hospital. Since 1968, it depends on the medical college of the Université of New York (NYU School off Medicine). It belongs to the organization New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation .

Bellevue Hospital is famous for its psychiatric services and is useful like centers medical Triage at the time of the catastrophes. Recently a new building of ambulatory care designed was inaugurated to accommodate: 300000 hospital out-patients per annum. This establishment is also a tertiary center of reference for the cardiac Cathétérisme, the Neurochirurgie and functional rehabilitation. The “Bellevue” saw ravelling in its walls of many literary figures, one of most famous having been the poet of the Beat generation Gregory Corso. It is also used as framework with several films, among which the Poison and The Sleeping City .

Headlight establishment of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation , the “Bellevue” carries out each year: 500000 external consultations: 100000 urgencies and: 26000 hospitalizations. More than 80% of the patients are resulting from populations deprived of medical departments. Currently the hospital occupies a building of 25 stages including/understanding a modern service of intensive care, a service of Radiologie making it possible to communicate digitalized images and a center of ambulatory consultations. The medical personnel counts: 1800 people and nonmedical personnel more: 1000 people.

Historical stakes in Bellevue Hospital

The Bellevue hospital played a pioneer part in a great number of medical fields:
  • 1799 : opening of the first guard of maternity of the the United States in Bellevue.
  • 1808 : realization of the first Binding of the femoral Artery for a Aneurism by surgeons of Bellevue.
  • 1861 : foundation of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College , the first medical school of New York to being in relation to a hospital.
  • 1862 : Austin Flint, eminent a Cardiologue of Bellevue identifies the murmur which thereafter will bear its name (“murmur of Flint” or “bearing” of Flint), a Heart murmur diastolic heard with the apex in the event of aortic Insuffisance.
  • 1866 : the doctors of Bellevue take a decisive share with the development of the medical code of the town of New York, which will be the first in the world.
  • 1867 : opening of the one of the first departments of hospital external consultations of North America, the Office off Medical and Surgical Relief for the Out off Door Poor .
  • 1868 : beginnings of the first service with the world of Ambulance S hospital.
  • 1873 : opening of the first school of nurse of the the United States functioning on the principle of teaching of Florence Nightingale.
  • 1874 : inauguration of the first service of Pediatry of the the United States.
  • 1876 : opening of the first house of Urgencies of the the United States.
  • 1883 : organization of a training program of the residents ( residency training program ) which is still used as model of surgical formation in the whole world.
  • 1884 : foundation of the first laboratory of pathology and Bacteriology, the Carnegie Laboratory .
  • 1888 : the first male school of care male nurses settles in Bellevue.
  • 1903 : the service of Pneumologie of Bellevue ( Bellevue Chest Service ) is inaugurated at the time of a epidemic of Tuberculose.
  • 1911 : inauguration of the first ambulatory cardiologic private clinic of the United States.
  • 1939 : Bellevue lodges one of the first units of the catastrophes in the world.
  • 1940 : the first laboratory cardiopulmonaire in the world is set up by André Frederic Cournand and Dickinson Richards, which will be later prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of medicine in 1956.
  • 1962 : inauguration of the first unit of intensive care in a municipal hospital.
  • 1971 : development of the first serum immunizing actively against the Hepatitis B by doctors of Bellevue.
  • 1996 : developed in Bellevue of the Taikwok' S Drug Comb a Trithérapie Triples which appeared the first effective strategy against the virus HIV.

External bonds

  • official Page of Bellevue Hospital
  • Page of the site of the Medical NYU Center
  • NYU School off Medicine Files of the libraries of the NYU concerning Bellevue Hospital
  • History of Bellevue Hospital, an article of Edwin Mr. Knights Jr. in the review History magazine .

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