Columbus Hospital
Cabrini Medical Center of New York City was created in the late 20th century by a merger of two Manhattan hospitals. It closed in 2008 due to financial difficulties
In January 2010, the five buildings formerly housing the medical center were purchased by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for $83.1 million, with plans to open an outpatient cancer facility, but as of July 2013, the buildings had been sold to a developer to be converted into residences.
Columbus Hospital
The original address of the hospital was 226 and 228 East 20th Street which had a capacity of 125 beds in 1886. In 1913 it was moved to more adequate quarters vacated by the New York Polyclinic Hospital at 214-218 East 34th Street.
Italian Hospital and merger
Italian
Hospital was founded in 1937 by the Italian Hospital Society with the
assets of and at the West 110th Street location of the defunct Parkway
Hospital.
In July 1973 Columbus Hospital and Italian Hospital merged. The combined organization took the name Cabrini Medical Center, after Mother Cabrini, and was located at East 19th Street between Second and Third Avenues near Gramercy Park.
Financial difficulties and discontinuation of services
The hospital was closed on March 16, 2008 due to financial difficulties.
As of April 2008 the Cabrini Medical Center web site reported "As of
March 14, 2008, many of the services at Cabrini Medical Center are no
longer available. ... The Emergency Department, acute inpatient units
and most outpatient services are closed."
On July 10, 2009, Cabrini Medical Center filed for Chapter 11
Bankruptcy citing net assets of $46 million and liabilities of $167
million. Their top five secured creditors were the mortgage holder Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada ($35.1 million); Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Chicago ($33 million); the New York branch of the Missionary Sisters ($18.7 million); 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) National Benefits Fund ($5.1 million); and an affiliate of Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers (SVCMC), which had loaned Cabrini $4 million. The largest unsecured creditors were Consolidated Edison ($4.2 million); St. Vincent’s ($3.2 million); Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) ($2.6 million). It owed a $828,000 health facility assessment tax to New York State, $418,000 in fees to the New York State Department of Health, $412,000 in dues to The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), and $308,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital.[11]
Medical staff residency training records and verification have
become available through the Federation Credentials Verification Service
(FCVS) Closed Residency program records.
Geography -
Location 227 East 19th St, New York, United States
History Founded 1973
Closed 2008
Giuseppe De Luca, one of the greatest exponents of bel canto, the art of
technically perfect and beautiful singing, and distinguished former
member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, died Saturday night in
Columbus Hospital at the age of 74. He resided at the Buckingham Hotel.
Candy
Darling, the transvestite performer who appeared in films and on the
stage, died yesterday of cancer and pneumonia at the Columbus Hospital
Division of the Cabrini Health Care Center. Candy Darling was 26 years
old and lived at 79 First Avenue in Massapequa Park, L. I.
The
performer, whose real name was James Slattery, was best known as one of
the Andy Warhol “Superstars,” and was discovered by the artist while
playing the role of an actress in Tom Eyen's “Give My Regards to Off‐Off
Broadway.”
Mr.
Warhol put Candy Darling in such films as “Flesh” and “Women in
Revolt.” Besides appearing in films and on the stage in such productions
as Mr. Eyen's “The White Whore and the Bit Player” and Tennessee
Williams's “Small Craft Warnings,” Candy Darling was a fixture on the
social circuit, seen frequently at parties and galleries.
The performer's parents, James and Teresa Slattery of Massapequa Park, survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
Basquiat's art focused on "suggestive dichotomies", such as
wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus
outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.
On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby's
auction, a 1982 painting by Basquiat depicting a skull ("Untitled") set
a new record high for any American artist at auction, selling for
$110.5 million.
Deaths
- Giuseppe De Luca (1876–1950). "Giuseppe De Luca, Noted Singer, Dies. Baritone, Star at Metropolitan Two Decades, Mastered 100 Roles in Half-Century Career"
The New York Times. August 28, 1950. Retrieved 2015-01-27. "Giuseppe De Luca, one of the greatest exponents of bel canto, the art of technically perfect and beautiful singing, and distinguished former member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, died Saturday night in Columbus Hospital at the age of 74 [sic]. He resided at the Buckingham Hotel. ...
Candy Darling (1944--1974). "CANDY DARLING DIES; WARHOL 'SUPERSTAR'". Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- Peter Hujar (1934-1987)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) Basquiat:A quick killing in Art. Phoebe Hoban, 1998. Quartet books
