| Jackson Heights Hospital | |
| Org/Group: | Wyckoff Heights Medical Center |
| Location: | Jackson Heights |
| Region: | Queens |
| State: | New York |
| Country: | US |
| Healthcare: | Private |
| Funding: | Non-profit |
| Type: | Community |
| Former-Names: | Physicians Hospital |
| Opened: | 1935 |
| Other Links: | List of hospitals in Queens |
Jackson Heights Hospital was a "small community hospital"[1] in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. It opened in 1935 as Physicians Hospital, was sold and renamed in the 1990s, and subsequently closed.[2] 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,[3] functioning as a subsidiary of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn.[2] A Junior High School, I.S. 230, was built on the hospital's site two years after the hospital closed and was torn down.
Physicians Hospital was opened in 1935 within a building that occupied a single city block,[1] 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."[4]
In 1989, under different ownership, Physicians had "not met its payroll in more than six weeks" (and had other debts too), MediSys Health Network was given the task to assume operational responsibility.[5] By 1990 the hospital was operating under the name Jackson Heights Hospital.[1]
Jackson Heights Hospital closed eight years after Parsons Hospital.[1] It was seen as "an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City."[6] Some of this was attributed at the time to the opening nearby of "specialized treatment centers" (some of them operated as "hospital satellite centers").[7] Two decades prior to the closing, the New York Times had headlined a "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting."[8] Months before the hospital closed, "the 83-bed facility had 20 beds filled."[2]