Parsons Hospital | |
Coordinates: | 40.7696°N -73.8055°W |
Location: | Queens |
State: | New York |
Country: | US |
Type: | General |
Affiliation: | New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine |
Beds: | 100 |
Former-Names: | Flushing Hospital Medical Center North Division |
Opened: | 1963 |
Closed: | 1988 |
Parsons Hospital was "a small proprietary hospital in Queens"[1] that was transformed into one focused to serving a local largely immigrant population. The hospital, which opened in 1963,[2] closed in 1988,[3] two years after it "was purchased by Asian American doctors."
In 1986 a group of doctors purchased the 100-bed hospital "to serve the Asian population in Flushing, Queens."[4] It became a division of Flushing Hospital Medical Center in 1988[5] the latter was acquired by New York Hospital in April 1996.[3] Parsons closed[3] within months of being "cut off from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement" for serious violations.[6]
The building was sold with the understanding that the new owner would demolish it.[7]