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1941 |
The new Hillside Hospital Facility opens in October with 88 beds
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1946 |
A local boy's accident inspires a group of local leaders to begin a campaign to open a hospital in the Great Neck area. The group incorporates as the North Shore Memorial Fund in January |
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at the home of LIJ Board President Saul Epstein, right. 1949. | 1947 |
The Federation for Jewish Philanthropies, under the direction of Gus Berne, Saul Epstein, and Louis Gertz begins a campaign to open a hospital for Eastern Queens and Western Nassau |
1949 |
The Federation group grows to a 120-member Board of Founders, and launches a fundraising campaign; Federation pledges half a million dollars to the drive |
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1950 |
Ground is broken for the new Long Island Jewish Hospital in Glen Oaks, Queens, on land leased from Hillside Hospital |
1952 |
The directors of the four Medical Divisions at North Shore Hospital are named after some controversy; the four men are not from the area, to the consternation of some local physicians |
1955 |
LIJ affiliates with Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn; Downstate residents are sent to LIJ for part of their training
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Community Hospital at Glen Cove opens its new School for Practical Nursing, with additional living and classroom space
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The Wender Welfare League becomes the Hillside Hospital League
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The NSMF, renamed the Great Neck Memorial Fund, purchases a plot in Great Neck from Louise Eldridge, who donates an additional five acres for the proposed facility |  |
North Country Community Hospital opens its School of Practical Nursing to train nursing assistants. Within two years, the School graduated over 50 nurses. |
NSH Fundraiser and NBC Radio personality Jinx McCrary interviews Board President and major donor Joan Payson |
Hillside Hospital's new Lowenstein Pavilion and the Convalescent Cottage are opened, increasing capacity to 177 beds | 1951 |
Ground is broken for North Shore Hospital on Valley Road in Manhasset Central Suffolk Hospital opens in Riverhead with 58 beds |
1953 |
North Shore Hospital opens its doors in July. A private room in the 185-bed facility is available for $22 per day The NSH Auxiliary is formed |
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After a 2 year battle with North Shore Hospital over the confusing name similarities, North Country Community Hospital is renamed The Community Hospital at Glen Cove |
1957 |
Community Hospital at Glen Cove opens its new South Wing, increasing bed capacity to 226 |
1958 | Huntington Hospital opens its new East Wing, increasing capacity to 195 beds | |||||||
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1944 |
The North Country Exchange is incorporated. This charitable organization was exclusively dedicated to North Country Community Hospital in 1949, and by 1960 had donated over $102,000 to the hospital
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Staten Island Hospital graduates the final class from its Training School for Nurses | 1949 | Renamed the North Shore Hospital Fund, the local North Shore group decides to sell the Eldridge property in favor of a more central location. The new site is a 12 acre donation from hospital trustees Jock Whitney and Joan Payson | Plans are drawn up for a $1.5 million expansion of the North Country Community Hospital
ELIH dedicates a new addition |
The addition to the North Country Community Hospital opens in September Hillside Hospital opens a Psychiatric Outpatient Department |
1954 | Long Island Jewish Hospital opens in May with 215 beds in the five-story structure; it is the first community hospital staffed by full-time directors of service | Patients at Hillside Hospital getting some pampering. 1950s? | 1956 | Expansion plans announced for North Shore Hospital. The $3.6 million additions will include 100 new beds and several new clinics. | Comedian Milton Berle and wife Ruth buy a raffle ticket for the North Shore Hospital Fair. 1955 |
Hillside Hospital creates the Department of Social Services, merging the Social Services and Group Activities Departments. |
