Bellevue Hospital

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
NYC Health + Hospitals
The original Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital building
Geography
Location	462 First Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Coordinates	40°44′21″N 73°58′31″W / 40.7393°N 73.9753°W / 40.7393; -73.9753Coordinates: 40°44′21″N 73°58′31″W / 40.7393°N 73.9753°W / 40.7393; -73.9753
Organization
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	NYU School of Medicine
Network	NYC Health + Hospitals NYU Langone Health System
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Helipad	East 34th Street Heliport (IATA: TSS)
Beds	1,500 (1,160 general, 340 psychiatric)
Speciality	Psychiatric
History
Founded	1736
Links
Website	nychhc.org/bellevue
Lists	Hospitals in the United States
Other links	Hospitals in New York

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, formerly Bellevue Hospital Center, was founded on March 31, 1736 and is the oldest public hospital in the United States. Located on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, Bellevue Hospital is also home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC*EMS Station 13.

It handles nearly 460,000 non-ER outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. The hospital currently occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500.

Bellevue was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding.

In 2014 Bellevue was ranked 40th overall in the New York metro area and 29th in New York City by US News and World Report.

Bellevue traces its origins to the city's first permanent almshouse, a two-story brick building completed in 1736 on the city common, now New York City Hall. In 1798, the city purchased Belle Vue farm, a property near the East River several miles north of the settled city, which had been used to quarantine the sick during a series of yellow fever outbreaks. When the grid system of streets was established in 1811, the survey had to take the hospital into account, and the placement of First Avenue on the grid is mainly due to the location of Bellevue. The hospital was formally named Bellevue Hospital in 1824.