Van Wyck Hospital Explained

Van Wyck Hospital
Location:Queens
State:New York
Country:US
Beds:50
Other Links:List of hospitals in Queens

Van Wyck Hospital[1] [2] [3] was a private hospital[4] located on Van Wyck Boulevard in Queens, NY and was among those New York City hospitals which passed newly tightened regulations enacted in 1936 "governing the physical equipment and the clinical and nursing standards."

Van Wyck later changed its name and subsequently closed.

History

The hospital, equipped with "fifty beds for surgery and medicine,"[5] was subsequently known as Doctor's Hospital of Queens.[6] Doctor's was a partnership of two individuals "doing business as."[7]

Controversies

A doctor sentenced to jail for perjury[8] subsequently refused to reveal details of surgery he performed at Van Wyck Hospital on an 18-year-old girl whose weight had dropped from 110 to 67 pounds.[9] [10]

Another case at this hospital involved "an illegal operation" performed at Van Wyck on a police officer's wife, "mother of a boy, 14 and a girl, 12."[3] The court continued despite a claim that the statute of limitations had expired and one of the doctors involved was dead.

Notes and References

  1. News: . Police Lieutenant Dead Here at 56 . died in Van Wyck Hospital, Jamaica, Queens . November 12, 1938.
  2. News: The New York Times. Capt Stein's Condition Grave. at the Van Wyck Hospital. June 10, 1937.
  3. News: . Police Protect Doctor Who Told of Operation . chief surgeon of the Van Wyck Hospital, 104-26 Van Wyck blvd., Ozone Park . August 1, 1936 . 9.
  4. News: . 25. 13 Private Hospitals of Boro Conform to New City Rules; 12 Queens Institutions Also Meet Requirements and Get Official Approval. September 30, 1936.
  5. Web site: Dr. Warshaw, Doctors Hospital of Queens.
  6. News: . 25. DAYIDWARSHAW, SURGEON, WAS 65; Director of Doctors Hospital in Queens DeaduWas on Pershing's Staff in France. May 28, 1960.
  7. Web site: Pitti v. Warshaw, 35 Misc. 2d 875 . June 1962 . Defendants Warshaw and Wein, sued individually and as copartners formerly doing business as Doctors Hospital of Queens, defendant White and defendant Murphy.
  8. News: . 25 . Dr. Lester Samuels of Queens to Serve Term for Perjury . January 17, 1939.
  9. News: The Bradford Era. New York Surgeon Operates on Girl, 18. 42-Day Victim . October 9, 1941.
  10. News: . 75 . Lester Samuels . December 14, 1941.