Throughout the years, the medical center has grown to become a premier health center. Some of the people who produced pioneer research or treatments were Drs.
Both New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College maintained individual control of their respective departments and administrative operations. The medical center was structured on a university system with five major clinical departments: medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, and psychiatry linked administratively. In these five clinical areas, the chairs of the college departments were the heads of the corresponding hospital departments. The pathology and radiology departments of the hospital and medical college were also linked in the same way.
The Society of the New York Hospital established the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1877 at its second location on West 15th and 16th Streets.
The Central Brewing Company and several row houses that were on the site of the medical center were demolished in 1929.
The second New York Hospital (L) // The first Medical College (R)
Lying-In Hospital (L) // Manhattan Maternity (R)
The journey toward the establishment of this medical center began in 1912. Dr.
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
