LeRoy Sanitarium

The LeRoy Sanitarium, later called the LeRoy Hospital, was a medical facility in New York, New York. It was founded in 1928 by Alice Fuller LeRoy and closed in 1980.[1][2]

Notable patients
  • actress Marguerite Clark entered as a patient and then died there in 1940.
  • actress Laura Hope Crews died there in 1942 following treatment for liver problems.
  • actress Doris Keane died there of cancer in 1945.
  • actress Dorothy Kilgallen had her final birth there in 1953. The baby was named Kerry Kollmar after the father, Richard Kollmar.
  • jazz musician Dick McDonough died there in 1938.
  • businesswoman Christina Onassis was born there in 1950.
  • actress Dixie Carter's daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie, were born there.

References
  1. Pollak, Michael (November 28, 2004). "From Hospital to Home". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-30. LeRoy Sanitarium, founded in 1928 by Alice Fuller LeRoy, was at 40 East 61st Street, off Madison Avenue, and had 54 beds. It was mainly a private treatment center for wealthy people but was also a maternity hospital. Aristotle Onassis' daughter, Christina, was born there in December 1950. Celebrities like Nat King Cole and Judy Garland were treated there. ... The hospital, renamed Leroy Hospital, later became a center for osteopathic medicine. It closed in 1980. The narrow Art Deco building was converted into a 37-unit residential condominium a few years later.
  2. "LeRoy Sanitorium". NY Daily News. March 6, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2022.



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