Bellevue Hospital Center

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Bellevue Hospital Center is a hospital located in New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1736, it is the oldest public hospital in the United States. Since 1968, it has been affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine. It is owned by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Bellevue is well known for its psychiatric facilities, and being a triage center during disasters.

Bellevue Hospital recently opened a new ambulatory care building dedicated to serving over 300,000 outpatients a year.

Bellevue serves as a tertiary referral center for services including: cardiac catherization, neurosurgery, and physical rehabilitation.

As the flagship facility of New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue handles nearly 500,000 outpatient clinic visits, 100,000 emergency patients, and some 26,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. Today, the hospital occupies a 25-story patient care facility, with a state of the art ICU, digital radiology communication and a new modern outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,800 and a house staff of more than 1000.