Lenox Hill Hospital - Notable Deaths at The Hospital

Notable Deaths At The Hospital

  • 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie (1944)
  • cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden (1966)
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt's adviser and speechwriter Samuel Rosenman (1973)
  • television host Ed Sullivan (1974)
  • actor Will Lee (1982)
  • host Jack Barry (1984)
  • stage, TV & film actress Anne Baxter (1985)
  • CBS correspondent Charles Collingwood (1985)
  • political journalist Theodore H. White (1986)
  • Random House co-founder Donald S. Klopper (1986)
  • David Suskind (1987), talk-show host
  • modern dancer Alvin Ailey (1989)
  • fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1989)
  • New York radio news broadcaster Stan Z. Burns (1990)
  • actress Myrna Loy (1993)
  • classical music, opera acting singer Tatiana Troyanos (1993)
  • star Wall Street banker Jeffrey Beck (1995)
  • famed lawyer Simon Rifkind (1995)
  • New York TV news host Roger Grimsby (1995)
  • alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss (1996)
  • RCA chairman Robert Sarnoff (1997)
  • NBC legal analyst Jay Monahan (1998)
  • writer Malachi Martin (1999)
  • writer William H. Whyte (1999)
  • New York TV news anchorman Jim Jensen (1999)
  • U.S. Communist Party perennial presidential candidate Gus Hall (2000)
  • television sports journalist Dick Schaap (2001)
  • sports announcer Marty Glickman (2001)
  • novelist Olivia Goldsmith (2004)
  • book publisher Roger W. Straus, Jr. (2004)
  • comedian Nipsey Russell (2005)
  • congressman Bertram Podell (2005)
  • marathon runner Ryan Shay (2007)
  • actress Natasha Richardson (2009)
  • writer Louis Auchincloss (2010)
  • restaurateur Elaine Kaufman (2010)
Timeline
  • 1857: German Dispensary founded on January 19, 1857.
  • 1857: Opened to the public at 132 Canal Street on May 28, 1857.
  • 1862: Move to larger space at 8 East Third Street to accommodate the 10,000 patients per year treated.
  • 1868: Move to larger space on Park Avenue and 77th Street and the name changed to German Hospital and Dispensary
  • 1887: Nurses training school opens with four German-American women, previously nurses were brought over from Germany.
  • 1897: First X-ray machine installed
  • 1907: Opening of the first physical therapy department in the United States.
  • 1908: Opening of the tuberculosis unit.
  • 1918: Renamed Lenox Hill Hospital.
  • 1931: Winston Churchill treated after he is hit by a car while crossing the street
  • 1933: Opening of a maternity unit and a cancer clinic.
  • 1938: First angiocardiography performed in United States at the hospital.
  • 1957: Opening of the intensive care unit
  • 1973: Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma established by James A. Nicholas.
  • 2000: Gus Hall, the chairman of the Communist Party USA dies at the hospital.
  • 2007: 150th anniversary.
  • 2010: Merge with North Shore-LIJ Health System.

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