Jacobi Medical Center is a municipal hospital, under the direction of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, in Morris Park, Bronx, New York located at 1400 Pelham Parkway South; it is the largest Public Hospital in the Bronx with 470+ beds.
Founded in 1955 as Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, the hospital opened concurrent with the opening of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Yeshiva University. For the first time, a medical school and a municipal hospital center entered into a formal affiliation agreement at the same time that they were both being built and created; this affiliation remains until now, and Jacobi Medical Center is a University Hospital of Einstein.
Jacobi was named in honor of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, who is considered to be the father of American pediatrics .
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