Hospital for Special Surgery history

In reference to that meeting, in 1864 Doctor Knight reported the following in the First Annual Report of the Society for the Ruptured and Crippled :

He eventually retired in 1868 from a mercantile house with a large fortune.

A group of prominent New Yorkers led by John C. Green, a successful trader, set about raising more than $200,000 for a new facility, which opened in May of 1870 on the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, the site presently occupied by the Hyatt Hotel.

1Robert Milham Hartley (1796-1881), born in England, followed his father in the woolen business although he had ministerial ambitions.

1887 – Doctor Virgil P. Gibney, Surgeon-in-Chief: Establishes the first Operating Room, Hernia Department, and Resident Training Program

Committed to the importance of surgery, he opened the hospital’s first operating room in 1889 and recruited some of New York's foremost surgeons, including Doctor Royal Whitman and Doctor William T. Bull, to the Hospital's staff.

Because of pressure from the New York Central Railroad, in 1912 the hospital moved to a new building on 42nd Street and Second Avenue, now the site of the Ford Foundation.

By 1924, the final year of his leadership, more than 3,000 surgical procedures had been performed at the Hospital, addressing the complete spectrum of orthopedic pathology.

1925 – Doctor William Bradley Coley, Surgeon-in-Chief: General Surgeon, world famous for malignant tumors

1933 – Doctor Eugene H. Pool, Surgeon-in-Chief: General Surgeon at the New York Hospital

1944 – Doctor Richard Freyberg, Physician-in-Chief: Establishes fellowships in rheumatology

One of the first bone banks in the United States was established at the Hospital in 1948.

The Hospital moved to its present site on the East River between 70th and 71st Streets in 1955, just one year before Doctor Wilson retired as Surgeon-in-Chief to assume the position of first Director of Research.

The construction of the Alfred H. Caspary Research Building in 1956 marked the beginning of a new era in orthopedics, in which the specialty would benefit from ever-deeper grounding in basic research.

The new research building was opened in 1960 and bed capacity of the hospital increased to 196.

Doctor Robert Lee Patterson, Jr., who was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief in 1963, foresaw the coming impact of technology and bioengineering on orthopedics.

After completing a fellowship in scoliosis in California in 1966, Doctor Levine returned to New York and was appointed to the staff of Hospital for Special Surgery as an orthopedic surgeon.

1970 – Doctor Charles L. Christian, Physician-in-Chief: Director of Rheumatology

1971: Doctor John Marshall organized the first Sports Medicine Clinic at HSS, believed to be the first such clinic in New York.

In 1972, the Hospital named Doctor Philip D. Wilson, Jr., as Surgeon-in-Chief, the same position held by his father 37 years earlier.

In 1988, the year of its 125th anniversary, HSS was designated a Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of 13 nationwide.

1995 – Doctor Stephen A. Paget, Physician-in-Chief: Oversees research, education, and the introduction of new biologic agents in the treatment of rheumatology

Soon after the organization was establish, Doctor Knight offered to lease his private residence at 97 Second Avenue, furnished for 28 beds and a conservatory to make braces, for $1,2002 per year (Fig.

A history buff, Doctor Levine has been the hospital's "self-appointed archivist" since 2003.

5 in geriatrics by United States News & World Report (2012-13), and is the first hospital in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center three consecutive times.

NEW YORK, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With 537 pages and 150 photographs, "Anatomy of a Hospital" chronicles the history of the nation's oldest hospital for orthopedics, from its beginnings in a doctor's home to help destitute children with disabilities to the premier hospital it has become today.

2014 – Doctor Todd J. Albert, Surgeon-in-Chief