The Bellevue Hospital history

Recruited as Chief Resident of Bellevue’s Tuberculosis (Chest) Service by Doctor Miller in 1930, he began working under D. W. Richards in pulmonary physiology while a resident.

PS 106, the first public school for the emotionally disturbed children located in a public hospital, opened at Bellevue in 1935.

Doctor Gerard Turino, a resident at Bellevue Hospital in 1948, remembers Doctor Amberson as the high point of an intern’s life,

Dickinson Richards won the Nobel Prize for cardiac catheterization [in 1956]. They all were trained extraordinarily well.

Doctor Ewald Weibel joined the cardiopulmonary laboratory in 1959, recruited to do anything on the structure of the lung that was of interest for physiology.

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Columbia faculty and students would remain at Bellevue for the next 181 years, until the restructuring of the academic affiliations of Bellevue Hospital in 1968.

Bellevue joined the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation as one of 11 acute care hospitals in 1970.

In 1978, The Bellevue Hospital became the first small and rural hospital in Ohio to begin an inpatient alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation program.

In 1990, it established an accredited residency training program in Emergency Medicine.

In 1991, funded by a New York State grant, Doctor Joan Reibman expanded the NYU/Bellevue Hospital Asthma Clinic to provide state-of-the-art care to an indigent population as well as to develop a clinical and translational research program.

On February 21, 1993, The Bellevue Hospital dedicated its $3.7 million expansion and renovation construction projects.

In 1994, the hospital once again recognized an opportunity to serve the needs of the community by opening a Senior Treatment Enrichment Program (STEP). The STEP unit provides outpatient treatment for a senior population with depression or emotional difficulties.

The building that formerly served as the hospital's psychiatric facility started to be used as a homeless intake center and a men's homeless shelter in 1998.

On September 11, 2001, the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers created a massive cloud of irritant, alkaline dust exposing 11,000 members of the Fire Department of New York and 300,000 residents and workers in southern Manhattan (38).

In April 2010, plans to redevelop the former psychiatric hospital building as a hotel and conference center connected to NYU Langone Medical Center fell through.

These studies expanded into a pilot treatment program and, finally, a federally funded medical and mental health treatment program, enacted into law as the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in 2011.

She became the Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory (now renamed the André Cournand Pulmonary Physiology Research Laboratory) in 2014.