Wadsworth Hospital was a 50-bed private hospital[1] that closed in 1976, after being cited by Federal, State and New York City oversight agencies, and subsequently losing funding.

[2] This five-story[3] Washington Heights hospital agreed in April 1976, after pressure from oversight agencies, to close.

[4] The 1929-built[5] structure had one serious violation: a "single front door, which is the only exit from the upper floors" (which the hospital refused to remedy: "contended that putting in another exit would mean cutting down on the number of beds").

[6] Wadsworth, "where the most-frequent procedure was abortion,"[1] was one of three in a series of hospitals closed in the mid-1970s for "life-threatening fire and health violations.

As a result, it was "economically unfeasible for the hospital to stay in business."