St. John's Episcopal Hospital

For other uses, see St. John's Hospital.

St. John's Episcopal Hospital was founded in 1871 as an American sectarian hospital. It was later known as St. John's Hospital of Brooklyn, ^[1] 1545 Atlantic Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Central Brooklyn, New York, and became a major teaching affiliate of the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

After severe financial difficulties in the early to mid-1970s because of construction of a new addition being completed in 1972, St. John's (the original hospital building along with the new addition) closed on October 20, 1975 and both buildings became vacant and closed until December 31, 1982. On December 31, 1982, it merged with the larger Brooklyn Jewish Hospital and Medical Center (this hospital building closed to be converted into apartments in the 2000s), forming Interfaith Medical Center (reopening the original hospital building along with the addition).^{[ clarification needed ] [2] [3]}

References

1. "St. John's Hospital and Doctors Agree to Talks". The New York Times . January 15, 1980.
2. French, Howard W. (March 20, 1989). "In Brooklyn, a Hospital Faces Its Own Mortality". The New York Times .
3. Ronald Sullivan (December 3, 1981). "Four Brooklyn Hospitals Plan to Merge Into Two New Ones". The New York Times . Retrieved October 9, 2015.

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