Bellevue Hospital Center, founded in 1736, is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It is located in New York City and has been the site of countless milestones in the history of medicine. From the first ambulance service and the first maternity ward, to the development of the Polio vaccine, to the Nobel Prize winning work of Cournand and Richards, Bellevue Hospital has been the training ground for many of America's leaders in medicine. Since 1968, it has been affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine. It is owned by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and is open to patients of all backgrounds, irrespective of ability to pay. New York, NY redirects here. ... Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... The New York University School of Medicine was founded in 1841, ten years after the New York Universitys founding, as the University Medical College. ... The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City. ...

• Bellevue is well known for its psychiatric facilities and as a triage center during disasters.
• Bellevue has seen many literary figures come through its doors, the most prominent being the Beat poet Gregory Corso.
• Bellevue Hospital recently opened a new ambulatory care building dedicated to serving over 300,000 outpatients a year.
• Bellevue serves as a tertiary referral center for cardiac catheterization, neurosurgery, and physical rehabilitation.

As the flagship facility of New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue handles nearly 500,000 outpatient clinic visits, 100,000 emergency patients, and some 26,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. Today, the hospital occupies a 25-story patient care facility, with a state of the art ICU, digital radiology communication and a new modern outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,800 and a house staff of more than 1000. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... Gregory Corso (illustration) Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs). ... For other uses, see Tertiary (disambiguation). ... Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. ... Insertion of an electrode during neurosurgery for Parkinsons disease. ... A flagship is the ship used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships. ... The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City. ... A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided in part by physicians and nurses. ... A patient having his blood pressure taken by a doctor. ... ICU is an acronym. ... An attending physician has completed residency and practises medicine in a hospital, often focusing on the speciality learned during residency. ...

Historical milestones at Bellevue Hospital

• 1799: The first maternity ward in the United States is established at Bellevue.
• 1808: Bellevue physicians perform the first ligation of the femoral artery for an aneurysm.
• 1861: The Bellevue Hospital Medical College, the first medical college in New York with connections to a hospital, is founded.
• 1862: Murmur is named for Austin Flint, prominent Bellevue Hospital cardiologist.
• 1866: Bellevue physicians are instrumental in developing New York City's sanitary code, the first in the world.
• 1867: One of the nation's first outpatient departments connected to a hospital (the "Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief for the Out of Door Poor") is established at Bellevue.
• 1868: Bellevue establishes the world's first hospital-based ambulance service.
• 1873: The nation's first nursing school based on Florence Nightingale's principles opens at Bellevue.
• 1874: Bellevue inaugurates the nation's first children's clinic.
• 1876: Bellevue's emergency pavilion, the first in the nation, opens.
• 1883: Bellevue initiates a residency training program that is still the model for surgical training worldwide.
• 1884: The Carnegie Laboratory, the nation's first pathology and bacteriology laboratory, is founded at Bellevue.
• 1888: The first American nursing school for men is established at Bellevue.
• 1903: In the midst of a tuberculosis epidemic, the Bellevue Chest Service is founded.
• 1911: Bellevue opens the nation's first ambulatory cardiac clinic.
• 1931: Albert Sabin, who later developed a live-virus vaccine against polio, received his M.D. degree at NYU.
• 1932: The first department of forensic medicine in the United States is established at NYU.
• NYU organizes one of the nation's first interdisciplinary research efforts, the Rheumatic Diseases Study Group, helping to usher in the era of modern rheumatology.
• 1933: William S. Tillett, M.D. conducts groundbreaking studies of enzymes involved in blood clotting. His work leads to the development of streptokinase, used to combat heart attacks.
• 1939: Jonas Salk, developer of the first vaccine against polio, receives his M.D. degree at NYU.
• 1941: The first department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the United States is established at NYU.
• 1941-45: NYU-trained Julius Axelrod, M.D., works with James Shannon, M.D., and other faculty members in the Medical Schools malaria program. Dr. Axelrod is later awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.
• 1939: Bellevue becomes the site of the world's first hospital catastrophe unit.
• 1940 : The world's first cardiopulmonary laboratory is established at Bellevue by Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards, who win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956.
• 1962 : Bellevue establishes the first intensive care unit in a municipal hospital.
• 1971: The first active immunization of serum hepatitis B is developed by Bellevue physicians.
• 1996: Bellevue (the public hospital) was the setting that led to the development of the "Taikwok's Triple Drug Combo" medicinal strategy that won the one front against HIV in 1996.

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External links

• Bellevue Hospital page at NYU Medical Center's site
• Bellevue Hospital Center Web page
• NYU School of Medicine / Library and Archives with Bellevue related collections