North General Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | (1979 to 1991) 1919 Madison Avenue (between 123rd & 124th sts.) (1991 to 2010) 1879 Madison Avenue (between 120th and 121st sts.), East Harlem, Manhattan, New York, United States |
Coordinates | 40°48′12″N 73°56′31″W / 40.80333°N 73.94194°W |
Organization | |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1979 |
Closed | 2010[1] |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
Other links | Hospitals in Manhattan |
North General Hospital (NGH) was an American private, not-for-profit, voluntary teaching hospital[1] located in New York City in the East Harlem section of Manhattan at Marcus Garvey Park. It was founded in 1979 to replace, as tenant, the Hospital for Joint Diseases (HJD), which vacated its East Harlem facility and moved that same year downtown to East 17th street at Stuyvesant Square. NGH was the only minority-run, voluntary teaching hospital in the State of New York. NGH was also the only private (non-public) hospital in Harlem. After 31 years, North General Hospital closed in 2010 under financial duress of bankruptcy.