[2][4] One of the largest hospitals in the United States by number of beds, it is located at 462 First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

The hospital has since developed into a comprehensive major medical center including outpatient, specialty, and skilled nursing care, as well as emergency and inpatient services.

Bellevue is a safety net hospital, providing healthcare for individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

[citation needed] In 1902, the administrative Bellevue and Allied Hospitals organization were formed by the city, under president John W. Brannan.

German spy and saboteur Fritz Joubert Duquesne escaped the hospital prison ward in 1919 after having feigned paralysis for nearly two years.

New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner moved out of the second floor and into its new building at 520 First Avenue, but still maintained close relations with Bellevue.

[13] The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 required evacuation of all patients due to power failure and flooding in the basement generators.

[citation needed] Bellevue physicians promoted the "Bone Bill" in 1854, which legalized dissection of cadavers for anatomical studies; two years later they started to also popularize the use of the hypodermic syringe.

[citation needed] By 1867, Bellevue physicians were instrumental in developing New York City's sanitary code, the first in the world.

One of the nation's first outpatient departments connected to a hospital (the "Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief for the Out of Door Poor") was established at Bellevue that year.

[18] In 1889, Bellevue physicians were the first to report that tuberculosis is a preventable disease; five years later was the successful operation of the abdomen for a pistol shot wound.

Bellevue played a key role in the development of the "Triple Drug Cocktail" or HAART, a breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS, in 1996.

This battery differed greatly from the Binet scale which, in Wechsler's day, was generally considered the supreme authority with regard to intelligence testing.

Bellevue is a safety net hospital, in that it will provide healthcare for individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

[24] Bellevue has entered popular consciousness through its status as a major hospital in the largest city in the United States.