Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids

Broadway and West 138th Street, Manhattan (ca. 1890)

Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids (now, Montefiore Medical Center) was an American sanatorium charity hospital. Founded in 1884 in Manhattan, New York at Avenue A and 84th Street, the sanatorium relocated to a larger building in Manhattan on 138th Street before removing to The Bronx in 1910. It also changed names several times.

The sanatorium afforded medical treatment, food, and shelter to those unfortunates who, by reason of the incurability of their diseases, were refused admission in hospitals and asylums. It received all incurables, irrespective of creed and nationality. The institution was founded and maintained mainly by Jewish munificence.[1][2][3] The organization also managed the Montefiore Home Country Sanitarium in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York, where it sent patients who were fit for a more active environment.

  1. ^ "The Home for Chronic Invalids". The New York Times. October 27, 1884. p. 5. Retrieved 30 July 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Directory of Social Agencies of the City of New York. New York City: Columbia University Press. 1899. p. 200. Retrieved 30 July 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Walters, Frederick Rufenacht (1899). Sanatoria for Consumptives in Various Parts of the World (France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, the United States and the British Possessions): A Critical and Detailed Description Together with an Exposition of the Open-air Or Hygienic Treatment of Phthisis. Swan Sonnenschein. pp. 117–18. Retrieved 30 July 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.