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Callen-Lorde Thea Spyer Center

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Callen-Lorde Thea Spyer Center

New York

New York, United States

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230 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011, United States, New York, New York 10011

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The origins of NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst can be traced back to the mid 1800s and an institution known as City Hospital. Built to serve the poor, it was New York’s second oldest municipal hospital and once occupied seven acres at the southern end of Welfare Island. It was the first hospital in the nation to substantially reduce incidences puerperal or “childbed” fever among its maternity ward patients and played a major role in treating victims of the 1918 flu epidemic.

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