Wadsworth Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | 629 West 185th Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, United States |
Coordinates | 40°51′7.99″N73°55′57.91″W / 40.8522194°N 73.9327528°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Private |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Type | General |
Services | |
Beds | 50 |
History | |
Opened | 1929 |
Closed | 1976 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in New York |
Other links | Hospitals in Manhattan |
Wadsworth Hospital was a 50-bed private hospital [1] that, after being cited by Federal, State and New York City oversight agencies, and subsequently losing funding, closed in 1976. [2]
This five-story [3] Washington Heights hospital agreed in April 1976, after pressure from oversight agencies, to close. [4] The 1929-built [5] structure had one serious violation: a "single front door, which is the only exit from the upper floors" (which the hospital refused to remedy: "contended that putting in another exit would mean cutting down on the number of beds").
The location, 629 West 185th Street, became a medical office building. [6]
Wadsworth, "where the most-frequent procedure was abortion," [1] was one of three in a series of hospitals closed in the mid-1970s for "life-threatening fire and health violations." [2] [3] Initially they each lost certification, then they lost funding. As a result, it was "economically unfeasible for the hospital to stay in business."
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