The Floating Hospital: 150 Years of Care

Published on Jun 22, 2016 by Charity, Hospitalsin Charity, Hospitals

RAND’s Yuni Song and Suzanna Takayama, RA with the Floating Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Shani Andre, MD (center).

In 1866, New York City’s first charity pediatric clinic began as a ship docked in lower Manhattan. It was the start of a series of vessels and barges that took poor immigrant children and their parents away from the unsanitary...

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