James Ewing Hospital
James Ewing Hospital was a 300-bed[1] Manhattan hospital notable for helping cancer patients.[2] Memorial Sloan Kettering took over running James Ewing Hospital in 1968.[3][4]
History
Ewing's predecessor was "City Cancer Hospital on Welfare Island;" the First Avenue location opened in 1950.[5]
The Ewing building was a "ten-story structure on First Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Streets"[1] and James Ewing Hospital was "an affiliate of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases."[6] an earlier name of Memorial Sloan Kettering.
The hospital was named after Dr. James Ewing (1866-1943), who had pioneered in cancer research and was featured on the cover of a 1931 Time Magazine issue as "Cancer Man Ewing."[7][8] The hospital building, 1250 First Avenue in Manhattan,[9] today is Memorial Sloan Ketterings's Arnold and Marie Schwartz Cancer Research Building.[10]
References
- "Mayor Lays Stone for Hospital, Urges Expanded Building Plan; Officiating at the James Ewing Ceremonies, O'Dwyer Asks Support for Proposal for City to Borrow $150,000,000". The New York Times. November 27, 1948.
- "Theatre Benefit Dec. 13 Will Aid Cancer Patients; Ewing Hospital Group to Gain at 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' Party". The New York Times. July 24, 1960.
- Seth S. King (February 9, 1968). "Memorial Leases a City Hospital; Private Institution Will Run Ewing Cancer Center". The New York Times.
- "Gretchen Green, Who Devoted Life to Serving Humanity, Dies". The New York Times. November 16, 1971.
of James Ewing Hospital, a division of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- "Hospital Volunteer, 83, Gets a Champagne Toast; Woman Hailed as She Begins Her 68th Year of Service; Spends 2 Days a Week helping Cancer Patients at Ewing". The New York Times. January 9, 1964.
- "Hospital to Gain By Theatre Fete Here on Dec. 10; ' Saratoga' Showing to Aid Ewing Auxiliary of Memorial Center". The New York Times. July 22, 1959.
- "Cancer Man Ewing". The New York Times. January 12, 1931.
- "Holly Ewing Bride on L.I." The New York Times. October 17, 1970.
- "Robert F. Kurka, Composer, Dies at 35; Wrote Opera". The New York Times. December 13, 1957.
the James Ewing Hospital, 1250 First Avenue
- "Arnold and Marie Schwartz Cancer Research Building".
.. houses the Center for Cell Engineering