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Lower Manhattan Hospital is the product of mergers between three downtown New York City hospitals. Its campus is located on the site of the former Beekman-Downtown Hospital, itself the product of a 1945 merger between Beekman Hospital and the nearby Downtown Hospital. In 1979, the present Lower Manhattan Hospital was formed when Beekman-Downtown Hospital merged with the New York Infirmary Hospital. This hospital had been founded in 1853 by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D. degree in the United States, and her sister Emily Blackwell. From 1868 to 1899, the Infirmary Hospital was closely affiliated with the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, a medical school run by the Blackwell sisters.

History
The present Lower Manhattan Hospital was formed in 1979 when Beekman-Downtown Hospital merged with the New York Infirmary Hospital. A merger of the two hospitals was announced that year with a ceremony at the Infirmary Hospital, and by 1981 all services at the Infirmary Hospital had been relocated to the Beekman-Downtown campus.

The merged institution became known as the New York Infirmary-Beekman Downtown Hospital. It was renamed New York Downtown Hospital in 1991. Between 1997 and 2005 it was affiliated with New York University and known as NYU Downtown Hospital. Its name reverted to New York Downtown Hospital in 2005. In 2013 it became part of the New York-Presbyterian system and was renamed New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital.

Beekman-Downtown Hospital
Beekman Hospital was founded in 1905 by the Volunteers of America as St. Gregory's Free Emergency Accident Hospital and Ambulance Station. The hospital was initially located at 93 Gold Street. By 1908 the hospital had been renamed Volunteer Hospital. The hospital moved to 117 Beekman Street in 1917. In 1922 it was renamed the Beekman Street Hospital, and by 1924 it was known as Beekman Hospital.

The Broad Street Hospital opened at 127-129 Broad Street in 1917. In 1938 it was renamed Downtown Hospital.

In 1945, Beekman and Downtown Hospitals merged to form the Beekman-Downtown Hospital. Services were provided at the Beekman Hospital site. [When did the Downtown Hospital site close?] In 1953, the hospital left its location on Beekman and Water Streets and moved to a new location several blocks west at the intersection of Beekman and Spruce Streets. This is the site of the current Lower Manhattan Hospital.

New York Infirmary Hospital and Women's Medical College
The New York Infirmary Hospital was founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D. degree in the United States, and her sister Dr. Emily Blackwell. Since 1853, the sisters had been running an outpatient dispensary known as the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children at a location near Tompkins Square Park. The Infirmary opened on May 12, 1857 as the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. (Nimura 200). Its initial location was on the corner of Bleecker and Crosby Streets in a home that had formerly belonged to the Roosevelt family and is now in use as a restaurant. In 2018 the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation placed a commemorative plaque honoring Dr. Blackwell on the Crosby Street corner of the building.

In 1868, the Blackwell sisters founded the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary.

In 1876, the Infirmary relocated to a new site on Fifteenth Street at the southeast corner of Stuyvesant Square [Nimura 262]. This location would be the home of the Infirmary until the 1979 merger with Beekman-Downtown Hospital. The Women's Medical College remained at its Second Avenue location until 1888, when it relocated to a building on Fifteenth Street adjacent to the hospital [Nimura 262].

The vacant building New York Infirmary building on Stuyvesant Square was purchased by the adjacent Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel) and became the Bernstein Pavilion.