Bellevue Hospital is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States.
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Bellevue Hospital is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States.
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Bellevue Hospital is home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC EMS Station 13.
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Historically, Bellevue was popularly associated with its treatment of mentally ill patients such that "Bellevue" became a local pejorative slang term for a psychiatric hospital.
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Bellevue Hospital initiated a residency training program in 1883 that is still the model for surgical training worldwide.
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In 1902, the administrative Bellevue and Allied Hospitals organization were formed by the city, under president John W Brannan.
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Bellevue Hospital opened the nation's first ambulatory cardiac clinic in 1911, followed by the Western Hemisphere's first ward for metabolic disorders in 1917.
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In 1962, Bellevue established the first intensive care unit in a municipal hospital, and in 1964, Bellevue was designated as the stand-by hospital for treatment of visiting presidents, foreign dignitaries, injured members of the city's uniformed services, and United Nations diplomats.
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In 1981, Bellevue Hospital was certified as an official heart station for cardiac emergencies; a year later it was designated as a micro-surgical reimplantation center for the City of New York, by 1983 as a level one trauma center, and by 1988 as a head and spinal cord injury center.
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Bellevue Hospital physicians promoted the "Bone Bill" in 1854, which legalized dissection of cadavers for anatomical studies; two years later they started to popularize the use of the hypodermic syringe.
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In 1889, Bellevue Hospital 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.
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In 1967, Bellevue Hospital physicians perform the first cadaver kidney transplant.
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Bellevue Hospital played a key role in the development of the "Triple Drug Cocktail" or HAART, a breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS, in 1996.
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In October 2014, Bellevue Hospital took in an Ebola patient, Craig Spencer, an individual who worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Guinea a month prior during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.
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Bellevue Hospital occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility.
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Bellevue Hospital was mentioned or featured in the end of music video of Van Halen song "Hot for Teacher" in which lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen becoming a psychiatric hospital patient after he graduated from school.
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Bellevue Hospital is referenced by the character Amy in the 1970 Broadway musical Company by Stephen Sondheim.
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