Board votes to end inpatient services at debt-ridden St. Vincent’s Hospital in NYC

Debt-ridden NYC hospital to end inpatient services

NEW YORK — Officials say St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan will shut its inpatient services after efforts to rescue the debt-ridden institution continued to stall.

Officials say the board of directors of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers voted Tuesday to close the 160-year-old institution’s acute, rehab and behavioral health care services.

Its other programs will continue as the organization seeks partners to keep them running. The hospital is $700 million in debt.

Spokesman Michael Fagan says the hospital will work with health officials to shut down operations.

Four nuns opened St. Vincent’s in 1849 to take in victims of a cholera epidemic. On 9/11, the hospital closest to the World Trade Center treated more than 800 people.

It is the last Catholic-affiliated hospital in New York City.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan will shut its inpatient services after efforts to rescue the debt-ridden institution continued to stall.

Officials say the board of directors of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers voted Tuesday to close the 160-year-old institution’s acute, rehab and behavioral health care services.

Its other programs will continue as the organization seeks partners to keep them running. The hospital is $700 million in debt.

A hospital spokesman didn’t immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment.

Four nuns opened St. Vincent’s in 1849 to take in victims of a cholera epidemic. On 9/11, the hospital closest to the World Trade Center treated more than 800 people.

It is the last Catholic-affiliated hospital in New York City.