Bellevue Hospital
Overview
The oldest public hospital in the United States, Bellevue has been serving patients regardless of ability to pay since 1736. With more than 750 beds, six Intensive Care Units, and a world-renowned Emergency Service and Trauma Center, Bellevue today is a major New York City provider of healthcare, both acute and long-term.
A tertiary municipal hospital and part of the South Manhattan Healthcare Network, Bellevue is also the primary teaching hospital of the New York University School of Medicine and an integral component of the NYU Medical Center Residency Programs. New York University faculty began conducting clinical instruction at Bellevue in 1847. In 1968 NYU School of Medicine assumed complete responsibility for Bellevue's clinical services.
Bellevue occupies a 25-story patient-care facility built in 1975 at First Avenue and 27th Street in Manhattan. It has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and a house staff of more than 500 residents and interns.
Each year the hospital treats some 27,000 inpatients. It also handles about 89,000 Emergency Service visits as well as 300,000 outpatient visits in more than 90 adult and pediatric ambulatory care clinics.
Bellevue's new Intensive Care Pavilion, one of the largest in the nation, opened in 2004 on the 10th floor of the Hospital Center. A state-of-the-art 208,000-square-foot Ambulatory Care Pavilion, designed by I. M. Pei, recently opened in front of the old Bellevue Administration Building on First Avenue.