Italian Hospital and Merger
Italian Hospital was founded in 1937 by the Italian Hospital Society with the assets of and at the West 110th Street location of the defunct Parkway Hospital.
In July 1973 Columbus Hospital and Italian Hospital merged. The combined organization took the name Cabrini Medical Center, after Mother Cabrini, and was located at East 19th Street between Second and Third Avenues near Gramercy Park.
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