Victory Memorial Hospital Explained
Victory Memorial Hospital was a 254-bed medical facility.[1] It was announced in 2006 that they're closing;[2] they were acquired by SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2009 and renamed SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge.[3]
History
Victory Memorial was a not-for-profit, voluntary hospital.[1] Most of the hospital's "complex of dun-colored buildings at the southeastern edge of Bay Ridge" were built in 1927,[4] but they opened earlier in a single building at their 92nd Street/Seventh Avenue Brooklyn location.[5]
Decades ago, the families whose children were born therein were largely Irish and Italian; before closing, they were "more likely to be Chinese or Russian" or "speak Urdu, Tagalog, Arabic and Spanish."[4]
In the 1960s, Victory Memorial built a new wing and added 64 beds, with recognition given for "increasing hospital facilities in Brooklyn."[6]
On June 25, 2021 Maimonides Medical Center broke ground for a new 15,000 square foot, free standing Emergency Department at Victory. The event was seen WABC-7, WPIX-11 and News12.
Incidents
- Two patients were murdered in the hospital by the son of one of them in 1999.[7]
- The driver and a bystander died when "a tank truck delivering liquid oxygen exploded outside" the hospital.[8] A year-long investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board discovered "a complex, explosive chemical reaction, lasting a second or less" described as a "series of events never before observed."[9]
- H.I.V.-Tainted blood given "during emergency ulcer surgery."[10]
- "The hospital's director of radiology" and "the hospital's assistant director of radiology" pleaded guilty to "failure to file a [tax] return for three years." They ran a side business that "supplies radiology technicians to various health-care providers" (including Victory Memorial).[1]
See also
Notes and References
- News: . Associated Press . 2 at a Brooklyn Hospital Are Guilty of Tax Scam . April 12, 1988.
- News: The New York Times. Hospitals Due to Close Are Given Money. Sarah Kershaw . September 29, 2007.
- News: . Audit, Citing Mismanagement, Finds SUNY Downstate in Dire Fiscal Straits . Anemona Hartocollis . January 17, 2013 . February 2, 2021.
- News: The New York Times. Dark Days at the Baby Hospital. Alex Mindlin . December 3, 2006.
- News: The New York Times. HAY FEVER CLINIC OPENS IN BROOKLYN; Victory Memorial Hospital First to Offer Free Scientific Diagnosis. FOR ASTHMA PATIENTS, TOO Source of Infection to Be Determined So Private Physicians May Treat Correctly.. August 17, 1923.
- News: The New York Times. Hospital Officials to Be Honored. May 3, 1964.
- News: The New York Times. Son Is Accused of Killing His Father And 2d Man . Kit R. Roane . July 4, 1999.
- News: The New York Times. Tank Truck Blast kills 2, Hurts 40. May 31, 1970 . Robert D. McFadden.
- News: . 1970 Blast Cause is found by U.S. . Robert Lindsay . May 23, 1971.
- News: The New York Times. Settlement in Lawsuit on H.I.V.-Tainted Blood. Mary B. W. Tabor . August 30, 1992.
