Jacobi Medical Center is a municipal hospital in Morris Park, Bronx, New York located at 1400 Pelham Parkway South; it is the largest Public Hospital in the Bronx with 470+ beds.
Founded in 1955 as Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, the hospital opened concurrent with the opening of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Yeshiva University. For the first time, a medical school and a municipal hospital center entered into a formal affiliatio...
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Jacobi Medical Center is a municipal hospital in Morris Park, Bronx, New York located at 1400 Pelham Parkway South; it is the largest Public Hospital in the Bronx with 470+ beds.
Founded in 1955 as Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, the hospital opened concurrent with the opening of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Yeshiva University. For the first time, a medical school and a municipal hospital center entered into a formal affiliation agreement at the very same time that they were both being built and created; this affiliation remains until now, and Jacobi Medical Center is a University Hospital of Einstein.
Jacobi was named in honor of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, who is considered to be the father of American pediatrics.
At the turn of the century, the area where Jacobi Medical Center would ultimately be established was known for its fashionable race track. Built by millionaire John A. Morris in 1889 and boasting one thousand horse stalls, the Morris Park Racecourse was the...
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