[5][6] The 1934-built eight-story 186-bed[3] Inwood, Manhattan hospital,[5] like its earlier 1923 location, was planned[7][8] as a "commemoration of Jewish veterans of World War I.

[4][10] In 1981 the Jewish Memorial Hospital was part of a three-hospital neighborhood primary care coalition described as novel and unique.

[11] In 1982, oversight agencies, after weighing reports that the hospital had serious "deficiencies" and recognition that it "serves a large minority community"[3] forced it to close.

[5][12] An aftereffect of this closure, along with 30 others "in the last seven years" is an observation that it's "harder to get a sick patient into a decent hospital without dangerous delay.

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