Queens General Hospital
| Queens Hospital Center | |
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| NYC Health + Hospitals | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 82-68 164th Street, Jamaica, New York City, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°43′01″N 73°48′16″W / 40.716995°N 73.804381°WCoordinates: 40°43′01″N 73°48′16″W / 40.716995°N 73.804381°W |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Public |
| Affiliated university | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York |
Queens Hospital Center (QHC), also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens and originally called Queens General Hospital, is a large public hospital campus in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City, just south of Flushing. It is operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a public benefit corporation of the city.
Queens General Hospital opened in 1935 as the first municipal general hospital in the borough. It would absorb the adjacent Queensboro Hospital for Communicable Diseases shortly after opening, and the campus would later include Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, which opened in 1941. Queens Hospital Center was formed in 1952 and 1959 with the official merger of the three hospitals along with two other Queens medical facilities. The current campus consists of modern buildings constructed in the 21st century, along with the former Triboro Hospital building.
Queens Hospital Center is located on a 22-acre (8.9 ha) campus in the Hillcrest/Jamaica Hills section of Jamaica, Queens. The large property is bound by Parsons Boulevard to the west and 164th Street to the east, with Goethals Avenue to the north. At the south end of the site is the Grand Central Parkway, though most of the campus ends one block north at 82nd Drive.
The main building, opened in 2001, is located at the southwest corner of 164th Street and 82nd Road just north of the Grand Central Parkway. The building was designed by the Perkins and Will and Davis Brody Bond architectural firms, with a largely-glass outer facade. It has 360,000 square feet (33,000 m2) of space and 200 beds. It features private and semi-private patient rooms, in contrast to the large hospital wards of the previous buildings. Adjacent to the south of the main building fronting the Grand Central is the only remaining pre-2000 hospital building. This is the "N Building", the former Queens Hospital Center School of Nursing built in 1956. It is connected to the main building by an atrium structure. The nursing school graduated its final class in June 1977.
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