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St. Francis Hospital (New York City)

St. Francis Hospital
Poor Sisters of St. Francis
Location in The Bronx shown within New York City
Geography
Location	407-409 East 5th Street, Manhattan (1865) 609 East 5th Street, Manhattan 525 East 142nd Street, Mott Haven, Bronx (1906) , New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°48′38″N 73°55′02″W / 40.810448°N 73.917139°W / 40.810448; -73.917139
Services
Beds	240 in 1892,[1] 380 in 1966[2]
History
Opened	May 1, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-05-01)
Closed	1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York State
Other links	Hospitals in Manhattan Hospitals in The Bronx

St. Francis Hospital is a former Catholic hospital which operated in New York City during the 19th and 20th centuries.

History[edit]

It was founded in 1865 by the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, who had been founded in Germany in 1851 by Mother Frances Schervier.^[3]

In the late 19th century^[4] and early 20th century^[5] it was located at 407-409 East 5th Street, Manhattan, where it served the large German immigrant population of the Lower East Side. In 1892 it had 240 beds.^[1] In 1906 the hospital moved to 525 East 142nd Street, in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, also largely populated by German immigrants.^[6]

The hospital provided free care to all comers without respect to nationality or religion.^[7] Faced with a crumbling infrastructure, for which there were not sufficient funds to replace, the hospital was closed by the Archdiocese of New York on December 31, 1966, amidst wide popular protest.^[8][2]

In 1970, a 17-story New York City Housing complex was built on the site.

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Notes

Source

• Richmond, Rev. J. F. (1873). New York and its Institutions, 1609–1873 (revised ed.). New York: E. B. Treat. pp. 374–75 (illustration opposite p. 355).