Bayley Seton Hospital

Bayley Seton Hospital
Sisters of Charity/Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center
"Respect, Integrity, Compassion, Excellence"
Geography
Location	Staten Island, New York, New York, New York, United States
Organization
Care system	Public (former); Catholic (current)
Hospital type	General and Teaching (Former); Outpatient (Current)
Affiliated university	New York Medical College
Services
Emergency department	Previously Level 1, now Closed
History
Founded	1831
Links
Website	http://www.svcmc.org/
Lists	Hospitals in New York

Bayley Seton Hospital (BSH) was a hospital on Staten Island, New York City. It is currently the Bayley Seton campus of Richmond University Medical Center.

Bayley Seton is located on a 20-acre (81,000 m²), 12-building site in the Clifton and Stapleton areas of the North Shore of the New York City Borough of Staten Island. The complex is bounded by Bay Street to the east, Vanderbilt Avenue to the south, Tompkins Avenue to the west, and residential development to the north. The block, with portions sold off over time, also includes Public School 721, the Richmond Center for Rehab & Specialty Care Center, the New York Foundling Hospital Staten Island, and an unaffiliated geriatric center.

The current Bayley Seton campus was constructed around the Marine Hospital Service buildings at the site. On October 1, 1831, Staten Island's first hospital, the Seaman's Retreat, was opened here, to serve retired naval and commercial sailors. Three of these original colonnaded structures remain, dating from the 1830s and 1840s. The Marine Hospital Service provided medical treatment to naval personnel. On May 6, 1857, the Port of New York Quarantine Hospital in Tompkinsville, about a mile north along the shore, was attacked by a local mob, fearful of the mostly immigrant detainees. The next year, on September 1, 1858, a mob again attacked the hospital, burning it down.

A new quarantine center was created on Swinburne Island (a fill off the South Shore of Staten Island, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Fort Wadsworth). In 1874, some of these resources were transferred to the Marine Hospital Service buildings at what is now the Bayley Seton campus. The Seaman's Retreat was also housed there; when it moved around three miles (5 km) northwest in 1883, it became Sailors' Snug Harbor. At that point, the entire complex was operated by the U.S. Marine Hospital Service.