Jackson Heights Hospital was a "private, nonprofit hospital" that was operated by MediSys Health Network,[3] functioning as a subsidiary of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
One of them, financier and philanthropist Jules Blankfein, "served for many years as its president and as a director.
"[4] In 1989, under different ownership, Physicians had "not met its payroll in more than six weeks" (and had other debts too), MediSys Health Network was given the task to assume operational responsibility.
[1] It was seen as "an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City.
[7] Two decades prior to the closing, the New York Times had headlined a "Plan to Eliminate Maternity Wards In 40 Hospitals Scored at meeting.