Gouverneur Health facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gouverneur Health
NYC Health + Hospitals
Geography
Location	227 Madison Street, Manhattan, New York City,, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°42′47″N 73°59′17″W / 40.713°N 73.988°W / 40.713; -73.988
Organization
Care system	Medicare, Medicaid, public
Affiliated university	New York University
Network	New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Services
Beds	295
History
Founded	1885

Gouverneur Health (pronounced GU-ver-neer) is a healthcare center in New York City. It used to be called Gouverneur Hospital. This center is owned by the city and works with the New York University School of Medicine. You can find it at 227 Madison Street in Lower Manhattan.

Gouverneur Health offers many health services. These include doctor visits, special medical care, and nursing home care. It mainly helps people living in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The center has a nursing home called The Residence at Gouverneur Court with 295 beds. It also has a large health center for community care. Gouverneur Health first opened in 1885. It moved to its current spot in 1972. A big update project finished in 2014, making the building much larger. It is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

What Gouverneur Health Offers

Gouverneur Health is approved by Medicare and Medicaid. This means it can help people with these health insurance plans. It has a 295-bed nursing home that provides care 24 hours a day. It is one of the biggest health places in Lower Manhattan. It is also the largest stand-alone center for everyday doctor visits in New York State.

About 50,000 patients visit Gouverneur Health each year. Most of these patients are Hispanic and Chinese New Yorkers. The center also offers help for people who do not speak English. This makes sure everyone can get the care they need.

Modern Updates and New Spaces

A big project to update the center finished in 2014. This project created a new, modern health center that is 450,000 square feet. It also added 85 new beds to the nursing home, bringing the total to 295. The nursing home, The Residence at Gouverneur Court, offers many services. These include help to get better after an injury, long-term care, wound care, and hospice services. It works with the NYU Rusk Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine.

The Center for Community Health and Wellness also got new updates. This part of the center handles over 345,000 outpatient visits each year. It now has a new 30,000-square-foot Women and Children's Center. There is also a new digital X-ray center, a pharmacy, and lab services. Special services include care for pregnant women, rehabilitation, and a new dental area with 16 chairs. The building looks modern with glass and steel, wrapped around red brick. It has lots of natural light, making it feel open and welcoming.

Learning and Community Help

Since the mid-1970s, Gouverneur has worked with the New York University Medical School. Since 1991, it has been a place where NYU medical students learn about primary care. Gouverneur also has three smaller health centers in Manhattan. They even have mobile medical and dental vans. These vans bring help directly to people who find it hard to get to the main center.

Health Services Available

The main lobby at Gouverneur Health

Dental care at Gouverneur Health

Gouverneur Health offers a wide range of medical services. Here are some of the main ones:

History of Gouverneur Health

Early Days (1885–1958)

Old building, Gouverner Slip & Front St

Gouverneur Hospital first opened in 1885. It was in a three-story building in Manhattan's Financial District. It was the 19th public hospital in New York City. It helped people in the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that was growing with new people from Europe. Gouverneur Hospital was the first public hospital in the United States to open a clinic for tuberculosis. It was also the first to hire a female ambulance doctor, Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer.

When the hospital first opened, it only treated people who had accidents. Patients who needed to stay overnight were sent to Bellevue Hospital nearby. But this changed quickly. About two years after opening, the hospital had 40 beds in use. In 1894, a newspaper article said that Gouverneur needed more space and resources to help the growing community.

Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer as a resident at Gouverneur, around 1900.

On May 12, 1897, work began on a new, bigger hospital. This new building cost $200,000 and had four floors, four wards, and 104 beds. Gouverneur Hospital moved to this new building at 621 Water Street in 1901. This old building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1994, it became a place for assisted living called Gouverneur Court.

The health plan called HIP started at Gouverneur Hospital. In 1940, Dr. George A. Baehr from Gouverneur created a health plan for people with lower incomes. This plan later became HIP.

Moving and Modernizing (1959–Present)

In 1959, Gouverneur Hospital lost its special approval, and it closed about ten years later. A new Gouverneur Hospital opened at 227 Madison Street on September 21, 1972. This new building was 14 stories tall and had 216 beds. It also had an emergency room and clinics for doctor visits. It served the communities of Little Italy, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side.

At first, Beth Israel Hospital helped provide medical services at Gouverneur. This was done through the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). The HHC took over the city's hospital system in 1970, and Gouverneur was the first new place they opened.

On September 22, 2008, a big project started at 227 Madison Street. This project cost $180 million and lasted four years. New and updated buildings were added. This made the center's main and preventive health services 15% larger. The update project finished in 2014. The building became thirteen stories high, with a new eight-story tower for the nursing home.

Timeline of Key Events

Photo gallery

• 

  Grand opening ceremony, 2011

• 

  Second floor lobby

• 

  Nursing facility patient lounge

• 

  Rehabilitation gym

• 

  CT scan

See also

In Spanish: Gouverneur Hospital para niños