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  Bellevue Hospital Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bellevue Hospital Center is a hospital located in New York City, New York, United States.
Bellevue is well known for its psychiatric facilities, and being a triage center during disasters.
Bellevue Hospital recently opened a new ambulatory care building dedicated to serving over 300,000 outpatients a year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bellevue_Hospital   (183 words)

  
 HHC - Bellevue Hospital Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Bellevue's innovations include a microsurgery center, a regional center for brain and spinal cord injuries and comprehensive pediatric services.
We are a 911 receiving hospital in the nationally-designated categories of cardiac, neurological, toxicologic, neonatal and psychiatric emergencies.
Bellevue today is also a regional center for brain and spinal cord injuries, using new diagnostic methods and techniques.
www.nyc.gov /html/hhc/html/facilities/bellevue.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Bellevue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Château de Bellevue, a small château built for Madame de Pompadour near Paris in 1750 overlooking the Seine and demolished in 1823.
Schloss Bellevue is the official residence of the President of Germany, being a château near the center of the city of Berlin.
Bellevue, a municipality in the Canton of Geneva
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bellevue   (159 words)

  
 Patient Care - Bellevue Hospital
The hospital is a lineal descendant of the infirmary for soldiers and slaves established in New Amsterdam by Jacob Varrenvanger in 1658.
In 1847, in response to clamor of the citizens, the almshouse and the penitentiary were removed from the hospital grounds, and the facilities were opened for clinical instruction to the medical students of the city.
Bellevue was also responsible for the nation's first outpatient department, the Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief for the Outdoor Poor.
www.med.nyu.edu /patientcare/about/affiliated/bellevue.html   (845 words)

  
 History Magazine - Bellevue Hospital
A considerable proportion of the hospital staff was occupied in burying the dead.
Throughout the early part of the 19th century the hospital continued to expand in physical size and staffing in an attempt to cope with an ever-increasing case load which continued to include sporadic epidemics of yellow fever.
Bellevue Hospital could increase its capacity, modernize its facilities, upgrade its medical staff, and introduce the revolutionary concepts of antisepsis and sanitation, but there was a serious deficiency that limited its capacity to offer good medical care.
www.history-magazine.com /bellevue.html   (2151 words)

  
 Bellevue Hospital - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL [Bellevue Hospital] municipal hospital, in New York City.
In 1860 the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, the first of its kind in the United States, was founded.
Until 1968, Bellevue was affiliated with the medical schools of Columbia Univ. (from 1882), New York Univ. (1882), and Cornell Univ. (1898); in that year Columbia and Cornell withdrew, leaving the hospital in sole affiliation with the New York Univ. School of Medicine.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-BellevuHsp.asp   (423 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Madness downsized - phasing out Bellevue Hospital - Wednesday | February 5, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The British colonial authorities of the day claimed that he was a mad man but the common belief was that he was locked away because his inciting the fl masses to action and his other goings-on had made him a thorn in the side of the colonials.
Controversy is now brewing around the plans to shut down Bellevue, re-directing the $400 million per year budgetary allocation into other aspects of mental healthcare, but Professor Hickling said that this is a critical step that must be taken to improve the country's mental healthcare and change the national attitude toward madness.
When a person is treated on a hospital ward with acute schizophrenia and is released in 10 days, their family will say 'oh he had a little nerve trouble and it was sorted out' but if he was sent to Bellevue for three weeks, they say 'oh, Johnny was mad and was in madhouse.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20030205/health/health1.html   (606 words)

  
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Bellevue physicians and midwives alike describe theirs as an ideal system, which provides the hospital's predominantly poor, immigrant patients with access to both midwives as well as a traditional labor wing staffed with highly trained obstetricians.
Of the 4,271 births at the hospital during 2001 and 2002, 41 percent were handled by midwives, according to Richard Jennings, director of the hospital's midwifery staff.
She said "at least once a day" at Bellevue, a laboring woman was transferred from the birthing center to the labor wing with complications.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/cns/2003-04-04/syndication/Rubin-birthcnt.txt   (1025 words)

  
 Bellevue Hospital Center
As the core of NYU’s teaching program, Bellevue is the primary location of clinical instruction for NYU medical students and house staff, and is also a significant hub of research.
Bellevue’s Emergency Department—one of only two Level-I Trauma Centers in New York City—is an internationally recognized model for emergency medicine development, and it serves as a training ground for NYU resident physicians in emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
Bellevue also boasts the nation’s largest array of behavioral health programs, and its psychiatric services are world-renowned.
www.med.nyu.edu /emergency/facilities/bellevue   (385 words)

  
 7Online.com: The Investigators: Crime Cover-Up Bellevue Hospital?
Some police officers at Bellevue Hospital tell Eyewitness News that evidence in a possible felony drug case was destroyed.
A Bellevue Hospital police officer says he decided to blow the whistle on the security director after the director ordered one of his officers to destroy 14 packets of what appeared to be cocaine found on a patient in the emergency room.
Bellevue hired Velez last year to take charge of its security in the wake of the brutal rape and beating of a 13-year-old girl by a visitor to the hospital.
abclocal.go.com /wabc/story?section=investigators&id=3239838   (594 words)

  
 Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Harlem Hospital
From the beginning, Harlem Hospital's responsibility was to provide medical care for the poor, specifically to those living in the rapidly growing districts north of Central Park.
The new hospital, with a bed capacity of 150 and located on the east side of Lenox Avenue, was opened on April 13, 1907.
Four doctors resigned from Harlem Hospital in protest and Dr. Casmo D. O'Neil, the superintendent and person directly responsible for Dr. Wright's appointment was promptly demoted to the information booth at Bellevue Hospital.
www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/hospital.html   (598 words)

  
 Bellevue Woman's Hospital
Bellevue Woman's Hospital is one of only two non-profit specialty hospitals in the nation and the only one in New York State concentrating on health services for women.
The programs and services of Bellevue Woman's Hospital are supported through the generosity of the community we serve.
Under the safe haven program, a distressed parent can, without fear of prosecution, leave her newborn infant at the hospital as long as the baby is healthy and no more than 72 hours old.
www.bellevuewoman.com   (538 words)

  
 Bellevue Alumnae Association Finding Aid
The Bellevue school pin, designed by Tiffany and Co., was adopted in 1880 and worn by graduates; it portrayed a crane, representing vigilance, surrounded by a wreath of poppies, signifying the role of nurses of allaying pain and bringing rest to the suffering.
Bellevue Hospital and the nursing school felt the impact of World War I. In June, 1916, Superintendent Clara Noyes initiated the enrollment of nurses for Base Hospital No. 1; in October, the work of organization was transferred to Miss Brink.
In 1929 the Department of Hospitals at Bellevue was reorganized; as part of this, the Board of Managers was relieved of the financial responsibility of running the Bellevue School of Nursing.
www.foundationnysnurses.org /collections/bellevuefa.htm   (3819 words)

  
 BELLEVUE SOUTH PARK - Historical Sign
Bellevue had already established a reputation for innovative medical technology by the mid-1800s, and treated soldiers from both the Civil War and the Spanish American War.
Bellevue doctors pioneered the use of hypodermic syringes (1856), performed the nation's first cesarean section (1867), and developed the first hospital-based ambulance service (1869).
Bellevue South Park was mapped in 1966, a welcomed green space for the increasingly residential neighborhood.
nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=8717   (608 words)

  
 Bellevue Woman's Hospital: On Trend with a Legacy of Care and Commitment to Women's Health: Ireland Report
Bellevue offers a level of personal service and ambiance with a dedication that continually exceeds patient expectations and is a true exemplar in women's health.
Jorgensen began practicing medicine at the hospital in 1955 and has carried her mother's legacy to the present and was joined by her daughter, Clarissa Westney, after her residencies in New York City, Albany, and Chicago.
Bellevue is an exemplary example of "one-stop- shopping" for women's health and easily meets all of the criteria for a fully responsive healthcare organization.
www.snowinst.com /articles/Belluve.htm   (2528 words)

  
 Bellevue Literary Review
To Dr. Ofri, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, a part-time writer and the editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, every patient's history is a mystery story, a narrative that unfolds full of surprises…read more.
The Bellevue Literary Review will be published by New York University's Department of Medicine and the physicians who staff Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center, the oldest public hospital in the country.
Bellevue Hospital in New York City, chartered in 1731, is the oldest public hospital in the U.S. In 2001, it also became the first and only hospital to sponsor a literary journal, the Bellevue Literary Review (BLR).
www.blreview.org /BlrInTheNews.htm   (469 words)

  
 Children of Bellevue
For more than 268 years, Bellevue Hospital Center has had a tradition of public health advocacy, education, research and delivery of quality health services to the people of New York City.
Children of Bellevue's original focus – recreational activities that occupied the patients' time – evolved into programs that helped youngsters and their families understand and cope with the child's hospital experience.
Child Life services continue to be a core Children of Bellevue funding priority along with the Frances L. Loeb Child Protection and Development Center, several innovative early language programs, and an extensive cultural and multi-arts therapy program for children hospitalized for psychiatric care.
childrenofbellevue.org /html/about.htm   (318 words)

  
 Pastoral learning at Bellevue Hospital Christian Century - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
I want to do my CPE at Bellevue Hospital because work in a large, ailing New York public hospital is guaranteed to be a "boot camp" experience.
Bellevue Hospital, located at First Avenue and 27th Street, lies within easy biking distance from General.
Founded to serve "lunatics and paupers" in 1736, Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the country.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_24_117/ai_65227437   (863 words)

  
 Bellevue Interpreter Program
Bellevue takes care of thousands of patients everyday, and has always responded to the needs of the community and its people regardless of their status, background, or social barriers.
Bellevue is one of the main points of entry for immigrants coming to New York City.
Bellevue has just started a Victims of Torture Program to address issues of patients who come to this country fleeing political persecution, and who are experiencing health problems relating to torture, physical and mental abuse.
www.uhmc.sunysb.edu /prevmed/mns/imcs/contexts/diverse/bellevue.html   (1611 words)

  
 Is Bellevue falling down?
WORKERS AT Bellevue Hospital in New York City--the oldest public hospital in the U.S.--are worried that one wing of the building is falling down.
A big crack has opened up in the outside wall of the hospital’s CD wing where it joins the main building, running from the top of the seven-story building to the second floor.
Despite its age, Bellevue is a mainstay of the public health system in New York.
www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/469/469_02_Bellevue.shtml   (676 words)

  
 New Bellevue Hospital playrooms dedicated Nov. 27 - Brief Article Real Estate Weekly - Find Articles
Two new Children's and Teen's Playrooms that will serve thousands of hospitalized young patients receiving treatment at Bellevue Hospital Center were dedicated in memory of Irving Koven, founder of Ambassador Construction, in a ceremony held on Nov. 27 at the renowned Manhattan medical facility.
How this public hospital coordinated the efforts of these charitable institutions and private companies was a chance occurrence that quickly focused on providing the greatest benefit for those most in need.
The efforts of Ambassador and Starlight were coordinated through Children of Bellevue, an independent charity within the hospital that raises funds for children's programs, working closely with Stephen Campbell of Bellevue's Child Life staff, who envisioned the playrooms as a way to ease young patients through the physical pain and anxiety of treatment.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_21_48/ai_81582591   (682 words)

  
 Network Physics > Case Study > Bellevue Hospital Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Founded in 1736, Manhattan 's Bellevue Hospital Center provides comprehensive medical, psychiatric and social services, including inpatient, outpatient and emergency care, annually treating 26,000 inpatients and handling nearly 400,000 outpatient clinic visits, while the hospital's world-famous Emergency Service provides help for another 100,000 people each year.
Bellevue is a member hospital in the South Manhattan Healthcare Network (SMHN), a division of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
The IT staff at Bellevue is therefore also responsible for the other facilities in the network: Gouverneur Healthcare Services, which maintains the largest outpatient diagnostic and treatment center in New York State ; and Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, a 2000-bed health center that provides medical, sub-acute, rehabilitative, and long-term specialty services.
www.networkphysics.com /products/literature/case_studies/bellevue_hospital.shtml   (1109 words)

  
 Bellevue Medical Center - Bellevue, Nebraska.
Bellevue Medical Center will house 200,000 square feet of comprehensive patient services including emergency care, obstetrics, inpatient and outpatient surgery, intensive care, cardiac catheterization, a pharmacy, radiology and lab testing.
Bellevue Medical Center will also reach out to surrounding counties and communities in both Nebraska and Iowa helping to provide convenient, comprehensive and experienced care closer to home.
The hospital, medical offices and employees will also be paying sales tax on purchases made in the community.
www.nebraskamed.com /bellevue   (850 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue: Books: Danielle Ofri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Bellevue Hospital, probably the oldest hospital in America, began to serve George II's New York subjects in 1736 as a Public Workhouse and House of Correction with six beds for the sick.
Bellevue became a teaching hospital, first by shedding its poorhouse and penitentiary and then, in 1847, by opening its doors to medical students.
All the frustrations of caring for a patient in a vegetative state in the cardiac care unit of Bellevue Hospital and dealing with her family are examined.
www.amazon.com /Singular-Intimacies-Becoming-Doctor-Bellevue/dp/0807072524   (2553 words)

  
 Pastoral Learning at Bellevue Hospital
Historically, chaplains are appointed by states or private bodies as religious functionaries working at secular institutions such as schools, prisons, hospitals, or in the military Chaplains rarely develop the long-term relationships that connect a priest to her parishioners.
In addition to meeting the African-American homeless woman who just learned she is HIV positive, I might encounter a highly paid model recovering from a heroin overdose or a Wall Street lawyer hit by a bicycle courier.
Although he has told me and everyone else in the hospital that he won’t discuss what happened the night he fell, it seems my duty to make sure that he acknowledges that something is missing from his life.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1955   (4155 words)

  
 Bellevue Hospital
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 Advisory Committee - Bellevue Medical Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Committee Membership: The Advisory Committee was assembled in September 2004 with fourteen initial members representing various areas of the Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU School of Medicine, and Ehrman Medical Library.
Terry Miles, Manuel Trujillo, and Mei Kong reported that Bellevue Hospital Center staff have been pleased with the outreach and efforts to communicate with departments.
To raise awareness of the Bellevue Medical Library among Bellevue Hospital Center staff and other interested parties both within and outside the hospital.
library.med.nyu.edu /bellevue/information/minutes/111204.html   (582 words)

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