Monroe Community Hospital

Monroe Community Hospital[1][2] is a chronic-care center in Rochester [3] that is operated by Monroe County.[4] They also have a Skilled Nursing Facility[5]

Monroe Community Hospital
Monroe County Community Hospital at the East Henrietta Road, designed by the Rochester architect Siegmund Firestone (2002)
Geography
LocationRochester, New York, United States
Services
Beds566
History
Opened1933
Links
ListsHospitals in New York

History

The nonprofit[4] 566-bed[6] hospital's roots can be traced to the 1933-built Monroe Community Home and Infirmary,[7] which was a replacement for the 1820s-built Monroe County Almshouse.[8] The Community Home structure "was designed by local architect Sigmund Firestone." [7] Firestone employed Thomas Wilson Boyde Jr. (1905-1981),[9][10] who later became[11] "Rochester's first Black architect." Boyde's "decorative architectural elements added to" Firestone's design.[12]

Some of the 190-year-old facility's[13] attending physicians are "affiliated with the University of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital."[4]

Controversy

In 2017 a local newspaper headlined "Two lawsuits in a month against Monroe Community Hospital."[14] They had publicly fired their director in 2013.[15][16]

References
Power plant of the Iola Sanatorium at 422 East Henrietta Road, built in 1928 according to Monroe County records, located across the Monroe Community Hospital
  1. "The Region". The New York Times.
  2. "Marjorie McSweeney Obituary (1938 - 2021) - Rochester, NY". Democrat and Chronicle.
  3. Randi Hutter Epstein (October 12, 1999). "Flu Season Starts Early, But Its Course Is Cloudy". The New York Times.
  4. Ronald Sullivan (April 25, 1982). "U.S. Investigating Dialysis Program". The New York Times.
  5. "Monroe Community Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility".
  6. "Monroe Community Hospital".
  7. "MCH celebrating its 80th anniversary". Democrat and Chronicle. September 23, 2013.
  8. Veronica Volk (October 30, 2020). "'They're under our feet:' Highland Park is home to hundreds of unidentified remains". Rochester City Newspaper.
  9. "Thomas W. Boyde Jr. Panel Discussion".
  10. "Intricate Architectural Details Adorn the Facades of the Monroe Community Hospital" (PDF).
  11. "A Book Remembers Forgotten Architects". The New York Times. June 3, 2004. The architects portrayed include Thomas W. Boyde Jr.
  12. "Thomas W. Boyde Jr., Rochester's first Black architect". Democrat and Chronicle. December 28, 2020.
  13. Brian Sharp (April 9, 2019). "New leader of Monroe Community Hospital to mark historic change". Democrat and Chronicle.
  14. "Two lawsuits in a month against Monroe Community Hospital". Democrat and Chronicle. May 24, 2017.
  15. "Brooks fires Monroe Community Hospital director Todd Spring". Democrat and Chronicle. May 16, 2013.
  16. Jessica Alaimo (July 9, 2013). "Former Monroe Community Hospital director Todd Spring denies wrongdoing". Democrat and Chronicle.

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