Victory Memorial Hospital

Victory Memorial Hospital was a 254-bed medical facility[1] that primarily served as a Maternity hospital. It was announced in 2006 that they're closing;[2][3] they were acquired by SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2008 and renamed SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge.[4]

History

Victory Memorial was a not-for-profit, voluntary hospital.[1] Most of the hospital's "complex of dun-colored buildings at the southeastern edge of Bay Ridge" were built in 1927,[2] but they opened earlier in a single building at their 92nd Street/Seventh Avenue Brooklyn location.[5]

Decades ago, the families whose children were born therein were largely Irish and Italian; before closing, they were "more likely to be Chinese or Russian" or " speak Urdu, Tagalog, Arabic and Spanish."[2]

In the 1960s, Victory Memorial built a new wing and added 64 beds, with recognition given for "increasing hospital facilities in Brooklyn."[6]

Incidents
  • Two patients were murdered in the hospital by the son of one of them in 1970.[7]
  • The driver and a bystander died when "a tank truck delivering liquid oxygen exploded outside" the hospital.[8] A year-long investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board discovered "a complex, explosive chemi cal reaction, lasting a second or less" described as a "series of events never before observed."[9]
  • H.I.V.-Tainted blood given "during emergency ulcer surgery."[10]
  • "The hospital's director of radiology" and "the hospital's assistant director of radiology" pleaded guilty to "failure to file a [tax] return for three years." They ran a side business that "supplies radiology technicians to various health-care providers" (including Victory Memorial).[1]

See also

References
  1. "2 at a Brooklyn Hospital Are Guilty of Tax Scam". The New York Times. April 12, 1988.
  2. Alex Mindlin (December 3, 2006). "Dark Days at the Baby Hospital". The New York Times.
  3. Sarah Kershaw (September 29, 2007). "Hospitals Due to Close Are Given Money". The New York Times.
  4. Anemona Hartocollis (January 17, 2013). "Audit, Citing Mismanagement, Finds SUNY Downstate in Dire Fiscal Straits". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  5. "HAY FEVER CLINIC OPENS IN BROOKLYN; Victory Memorial Hospital First to Offer Free Scientific Diagnosis. FOR ASTHMA PATIENTS, TOO Source of Infection to Be Determined So Private Physicians May Treat Correctly". The New York Times. August 17, 1923.
  6. "Hospital Officials to Be Honored". The New York Times. May 3, 1964.
  7. "Son Is Accused of Killing His Father And 2d Man". The New York Times. July 4, 1999.
  8. "Tank Truck Blast kills 2, Hurts 40". The New York Times. May 31, 1970.
  9. Robert Lindsay (May 23, 1971). "1970 Blast Cause is found by U.S." The New York Times.
  10. Mary B. W. Tabor (August 30, 1992). "Settlement in Lawsuit on H.I.V.-Tainted Blood". The New York Times.
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