St. Barnabas Hospital (Bronx) Explained

St. Barnabas Hospital
Org/Group:	St Barnabas Health System
Location:	4422 Third Ave
Region:	The Bronx
State:	New York
Country:	US
Healthcare:	Private
Funding:	Non-profit
Type:	Teaching
Affiliation:	CUNY School of Medicine, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
Emergency:	II
Beds:	422
Speciality:	Teaching
Publictransit:	New York City Bus:
Former-Names:	The Home for the Incurables (1866)
Other Links:	Hospitals in The Bronx

St Barnabas Hospital is a non-profit teaching hospital founded in 1866. The hospital is located in the Belmont neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. It is a level II adult trauma center^[1] and is a major clinical affiliate for clinical clerkship of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.^{[2] [3] [4]}

History

St Barnabas Hospital, originally known as the Home for the Incurables, was founded in 1866 by Reverend Washington Rodman, of the Grace Episcopal Church in West Farms, Bronx. The hospital became the first chronic disease hospital and was housed in a modest frame house and could serve 33 patients.^{[5] [6]} The hospital moved to its present location on Third Avenue in 1874 where by 1911 it could accommodate 300 beds. Support for the non-profit hospital came from New York Society including Cornelius Vanderbilt (who served on the hospital's Board of Managers), John Jacob Astor, Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Law Olmsted.^[7] Between 1926 and 1931, the hospital added three new buildings to the hospital and in 1947, the hospital changed its name to St Barnabas Hospital.^[8] In 1969, St Barnabas broke ground for a six-story West Wing with 188 beds, a cafeteria and kitchen. St Barnabas Nursing Home was founded in 1972, and is located on the hospital's campus at 2175 Quarry Rd.^[9]

In 1983, Dr. Ronald Gade was promoted to the hospital's president from head of radiology and worked to make the hospital more efficient in its care of patients. He reduced the staff size, discouraged long hospital stays, and greatly increased income from Medicaid due to improvements. His implementations at St Barnabas challenged the medical establishment by creating a managed-care revolution in American medicine. By the late 1990s, the hospital won two city contracts worth almost $450 million, one to provide doctors for Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, the other to care for prisoners on Rikers Island. In the 1990s, the hospital received state designation as a Level 2 Trauma Center and created an AIDS Center and Stroke Center.^[10]

The hospital is a major clinical teaching site for the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.^[11] In 2016, the hospital also became an affiliate of CUNY School of Medicine to recruit underrepresented minorities into medicine, increase medical care in underserved communities, and boost the number of primary care physicians.^{[12] [13] [14]}

Notable personnel

• Dr. Irving S. Cooper – developed cryothalamectomy as a surgical technique for primary control of tremor in patients with Parkinson's disease during his employment (1954–1977)^[15]
• Dr. Humayun Chaudhry - Completed residency at St. Barnabas. Became Commissioner of Health Services for Suffolk County, New York. He later became CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards.
• Dr. Richard F. Daines – Served as Senior Vice President for Professional Affairs and Medical Director. After leaving St. Barnabas Hospital, he became the president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai Morningside) in Manhattan. Still later, he became the New York State Health Commissioner
• Victor M. Pichardo - Vice President for Community and Government Affairs. He was previously a New York State Assembly member.^[16]

Deaths of notable people

• Bryant Baker (1881–1970) sculptor^[17]
• Emanuel Balaban (1895–1973) pianist^[18]
• Reginald Bathurst Birch (1856–1943) illustrator^[19]
• Benjamin Feigenbaum (1860 – 1932) Yiddish socialist, newspaper editor, translator, and satirist.^{[20] [21]}
• Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz (2002-2018) victim of gang violence, On June 20, 2018, 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was killed by members of the Dominican gang Trinitario in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx. The death occurred in a case of mistaken identity.
• The Mighty Hannibal (1939-2014), James Timothy Shaw, R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter.^[22]
• Abraham Hirschfeld (1919–2005), real estate investor, Broadway producer^[23]
• Electus D. Litchfield (1872–1952) architect^[24]
• Annie Mack Berlein (c. 1850 - June 22, 1935) Irish-born American actress.^[25]
• Gustave Verbeek (1867–1937), cartoonist^[26]

See also

• List of hospitals in the Bronx
• Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trauma Centers . American College of Surgeons . October 11, 2021 . en.
2. Web site: NYS Health Profile: St. Barnabas Hospital Health System. profiles.health.ny.gov. November 28, 2017.
3. Web site: New York State Trauma Centers. health.ny.gov. November 28, 2017.
4. Web site: NYS Health Profile: St. Barnabas Hospital Health System . profiles.health.ny.gov . New York State Department of Health . 17 May 2020.
5. Book: Jones, Charles Henry . Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620–1886. Allen, Lane & Scott. 1886. 116.
6. News: SBH 150th Celebration - SBH Health System. SBH Health System. 2018-11-08. en-US.
7. Web site: About – SBH Health System. SBH Health System. November 26, 2017.
8. Web site: Bronx Home Changes Name. The New York Times. November 26, 2017. November 20, 1947.
9. Web site: St Barnabas Nursing Home, Inc – Bronx, NY – Business Information. Dandb.com. November 26, 2017.
10. News: Caring for Poor, and for Profit; Bronx Hospital Shakes Up the Medical Establishment. Fisher. Ian. 2018-11-08. en.
11. Web site: Clinical Education Institutions College of Osteopathic Medicine New York Tech. 2021-01-02. www.nyit.edu.
12. Web site: City College establishes medical school with St. Barnabas Hospital – CUNY Newswire. 1.cuny.edu. November 26, 2017. July 14, 2015.
13. Web site: New CUNY Medical School Ensures Local Students Get the Full Experience. NY1 News. November 26, 2017. July 29, 2015.
14. Web site: City College establishes medical school with St. Barnabas Hospital The City College of New York. Admin. Website. 2015-07-15. www.ccny.cuny.edu. en-US. 2018-11-08.
15. Das. K.. Benzil. D. L.. Rovit. R. L.. Murali. R.. Couldwell. W. T.. Irving S. Cooper (1922–1985): a pioneer in functional neurosurgery. 9817430. Journal of Neurosurgery. 1998. 89. 5. 865–873. 10.3171/jns.1998.89.5.0865.
16. News: A changemaker switches gears / Un reformador cambia de marcha . September 29, 2021 . The Bronx Free Press . September 28, 2021.
17. News: Bryant Baker, sculptor, Dies. The New York Times. March 31, 1970. A41.
18. "Emanuel Balaban of Juilliard Staff," The New York Times (April 18, 1973), p. 50. [obituary]
19. News: 18 Jun 1943, 206 - Daily News at Newspapers.com . September 23, 2018 . Newspapers.com . June 18, 1943 . Daily News. New York . 47 .
20. News: Feigenbaum Dies, Pioneer Socialist; Had been long ill. 10 November 1932. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 2018-09-02. 12. en.
21. Web site: Gale - User Identification Form. link.galegroup.com. 2018-09-02.
22. News: Shaw . Michelle E. . James "The Mighty Hannibal" Shaw, 74: "His music had vision" . 14 June 2020 . ajc . Atlanta Journal-Constitution . February 4, 2014 . en.
23. News: August 10, 2005 . Abe Hirschfeld, a Millionaire and an Eccentric, Dies at 85 . The New York Times . August 26, 2015 .
24. "E. D. Litchfield, 80, Architect, Is Dead: Civic Leader Here Won Reversal of Grandfather's Demotion in Court-Martial of 1814," The New York Times, November 28, 1952, p. 25.
25. (1 July 1935). Annie Mack Berlein, New York Post
26. News: Gustave Verbeck, Ex-Cartoonist, 70. His Work Appeared for Eleven Years in the Old New York Herald . Gustave Verbeck of 125 Sherman Avenue, an artist whose cartoons were published in the old New York Herald for eleven years, died yesterday in the Home for Incurables, Third Avenue and 183d Street, the Bronx, where he had been a patient for two months. He had been ill for two years. .... . December 6, 1937 . 14 September 2015 .